MINISTER of Finance Alexander Chikwanda has sued Anglican priest Richard Luonde for alleged defamation.
According to a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Mr Chikwanda said Father Luonde caused to be published in the Post newspaper edition of August 18, 2014, a story headlined: “Chikwanda is double-dealing with the mines and eating with two hands.”
Mr Chikwanda claimed that other alleged defamatory stories that were published in the Post under headlines: “Fr Luonde challenges Chikwanda to explain his role in Sigma Enterprises” and “Zambians are living dangerously by having a Finance minister whose interest is to protect mining companies so that his supply business remains profitable,” were defamatory.
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Dr Mphande, now Fr Luonde, next…..??
The Minister is putting Zambian laws to good use. How we with Zambia Police Service could also correctly interpret the Public Order Act so that opposition parties could compete on fairer terms with the party in power.
Chikwanda is cleaning them up!! And has put Tax sanctions at The Post Newspaper. Teach them a lesson Mr. President Chikwanda, whip them!! Hold on to Mmembe, he should be last person you sue as a person.
here we go.
the monkeys have started fighting. they have just realised that the goverment trees are few and that they all can’t fit in them. the law of the jungle shall prevail, the weak will die and the strong will survive.
monkeys in the maize field.
Next is …. Mushota!
Thanks!
@ Arm Pit
It’s weird…a monkey gets on a key board and comments on a story, calls Africans ‘monkeys’. Weird monkey.
Viva humanoids!
ARM PIT: What an id.iot you are!
Good one ABC, this Fr.Luonde should account for his many unsubstantiated pronouncements he is fond of making in the discredited tabloid.
The untouchable Chikwanda is busy purging all his PF enemies one by one. There is nothing Sata can do to control Chikwanda otherwise Sata’s origin will be put in the lime light. This how powerful Chikwanda is right now.
More implosion in PF please!
Squeeze this wanking priest so that he stops making useless and baseless allegations. VAT repayments MUST be paid by the government, what was so wrong in doing the right thing? The amount has been accruing over a period of time and at one time had to be settled and not left for the next government. Dull priest….
The priest has evidence. the minister decides to change rules in favour of mines that pay companies he owns. what a chain. the priest, though i dont like his behaviour, has evidence and their is acquitted if only a solid and unbiased judge is found!
reminds me of how Mmembe used this sackcloth of a priest on HH. if HH was a monkey like chikwanda he would have sued this character assassinator but to what end. luonde thought been bemba was a passport to the Sata kingdom but he soon realised that he was an outcast. and now the monkeys have just realised that the goverment trees are few and that they all can’t fit in them. the law of the jungle shall prevail, the weak will die and the strong will survive.
Chikwanda and his minions are on the bigger payroll of most mines making SME mining suppliers and contractors suffer and you are out there ignorantly supporting this witch?
Good move by ABC, it is high time people changed their approach to such sensitive issues and debates. I hope fatherless Luonde did his homework well before uttering those malicious words. We have too much rumor mongering and insulting people at will in the country without thinking about the repercussions. When you claim something make sure you have facts, otherwise do not bring ilyashi lyamubwalya to the hungry media. Lest you leave it to the online bloggers whose identities are not known!
This is good this LUONDE thing is useless he is too corrupt man he is being used by Membe to insult and paint other leaders corrupt when his boss Membe is more corrupt. This father Luonde he started his nonsense during RB time but RB is mature politician he just ignored the chap. And Zambian should now realize that RB is protected by God am saying this because who ever insulted RB in the past is now leaving miserable life, look at FRED MEMBE and Kabimba who knew that these guys will be in the situations they are in to date, dot touch RB you will be consumed. CHIKWANDA is putting these criminals were they belong, Luonde should squeezed until he smelts completely he can not be using the name of God in vein like this. He is fake a father
ALL THOSE WHO WERE FIGHTING THE MAN OF GOD(NEVERS MUMBA)ARE BEING PUT TO SHAME.KACHINGWA,KABIMBA,MALUSA,…..ETC.THE MAN OFGOD AT WORK
That’s one cheap god you have there dude, he works in piecemeal. Hah!
Is Fr. Luonde also part of the Cartel?
Good job, Chikwanda. Zambians have this habit of talking their mouths off without showing anything for it. I think we need the discipline of walking the walk as good as we blabber. Perhaps then we can export something. Nobody will buy our gossip and rumor mongering…
Let’s go all the way Honourable Chikwanda, though I am not aligned to any political party you have my support ALL the way to sort out this cancerous growth called Father, and its paymasters.
AMEN FTJ! God is not protecting anything in RB. He is protecting the Man of God Nevers! At the height of his persecution by PF, he declared “I AM A PROPHET OF GOD, I CANNOT BE TREATED THIS WAY”. For sure one after another they started falling; Kabimba, MCS, Siliya, Mulusa, Kachingwe….’ the list goes on.
Youngman plz do not bring the name of God to ridicule
Sue his dry Mr Chikwanda and let him learn how to tame his mouth. There is too much verbal diarrhoea in Zambia, its time to pay for careless talk.