Post Newspaper Limited Managing Director and Editor in Chief Fred M’membe has accused President Edgar Lungu his Government of being on crusade to shut down all independent media houses by their attempt to liquidate Post Newspapers Limited using their surrogates.
In a hard hitting statement, Mr M’membe said the the former employees of Post Newspapers are now being used to try and achieve the government’s goal of annihilating the company because the Post Newspaper has a strong stance to educate the masses on government corruption and abuse.
Mr M’membe said that the former employees have been used to file a petition for liquidation on the basis that they are owed money by the company.
“All the claimants resigned from Post Newspapers on their own. None of them has lodged any claims with the company. It is therefore strange that people who resigned and never demanded anything on their resignation can now be used to try and liquidate the company. Where is their claim so that the company can respond to it?”
Below is the full statement
STATEMENT ON ATTEMPTS TO LIQUIDATE THE POST ISSUED BY FRED M’MEMBE, MANAGING DIRECTOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
President Lungu and his government have continued their crusade to shut down all independent media houses by their attempt to liquidate Post Newspapers Limited using their surrogates.
This does not surprise us, although it saddens us, because of its impact on our democracy and on the thousands of people whose livelihood has been taken away by this crusade to shut down the newspaper.
The Zambia Revenue Authority was first used in this crusade. It appears that President Lungu is now attempting to use the courts in this crusade. We are hoping that he has not found willing facilitators in this very important institution.
Our concerns are borne by the fact that the courts have issued an order to liquidate the newspaper without those who are claiming money from the institution proving that they are indeed owed money. In fact, at no time have any former employees ever claimed any money from Post Newspapers nor has any court decided that Post owes employees money.
We fully sympathize with the employees who are simply being used by the same government that has occasioned them misery by taking away their means of livelihood.
The impunity being exercised by government is shocking. ZRA have gone to the extent of disregarding court orders to keep the company’s premises closed. The Tax Appeals Tribunal has ordered ZRA to open the company’s premises but they have simply ignored the Tribunal. Why is ZRA behaving in this way?
It is because they are acting on the instructions and protection of the government.
In relation to the latest developments, the government has employed a few former Post employees.
As intimated above, these former employees of Post Newspapers are now being used to try and achieve the government’s goal of annihilating the company because of its stance to educate the masses on government corruption and abuse.
The former employees have been used to file a petition for liquidation on the basis that they are owed money by the company. All the claimants resigned from Post Newspapers on their own. None of them has lodged any claims with the company. It is therefore strange that people who resigned and never demanded anything on their resignation can now be used to try and liquidate the company.
Where is their claim so that the company can respond to it?
Why are they avoiding giving the company simple demand?
This whole process is flawed. Mr Lewis Mosho, the person appointed as provisional liquidator, is being used by the government and he is unlikely to follow the law.
Mosho’s corruption, in collusion with those in government, was exposed by The Post.
The corrupt in government have now regrouped to annihilate the only means that had been available to expose their corruption. With The Post gone, Lewis Mosho, Edgar Lungu and those determined to loot government coffers, can now loot with impunity.
We remain hopeful that the Judiciary can still rise to the occasion and save this country from the state capture that has been waged by a few determined corrupt individuals. But our optimism is tempered by caution because of what we know about some of these judges and the information we continue to collect about their collusion.
At an opportune time, all will be laid bare.
For now, President Lungu and his government, through Mosho and other corrupt facilitators, are creating the conditions for corruption on a scale unseen without question. With corruption comes dictatorship and vice versa. After The Post, who will be next?
This is what happens when you fornicate with Politicians.This guy was blind to the corruption & human rights abuses of Sata’s PF from 2011 till Cobra’s death.No sympathy here ba Mmembe.
Very sad development indeed. The moment Edgar Chapona Lungu stepped the corridors of statehouse, Zambia kissed goodbye to her democracy no wonder Mu7 and Mugabe have been the most respected leaders in Edgars regime when they’re the most useless heads of state Africa has ever produced after Idi Amin
Don’t like lungu at all, but if I pay Tax and an institution somewhat wants to find a way of avoiding paying tax, you have never leg to stand on.
Even here in Europe companies find a way of paying tax by actually paying it albeit in a way they see fit by migrating to certain tax haven areas. They do pay tax the whole lot but find a way of not paying quiet enough tax. The post pretty much don’t.
Post have an insurmountable tax bill for years, if they ahent been able to pay then, they won’t pay ever.
Also, they are not quite as relevant now as they would have been prior to online news sites.
Unfortunately, they have to go under and they get my blessing. Fred I know you read this as we talked ( 2009 was it?)a few years ago and sorry I am no on your side anymore…
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What goes round comes around! How many people did you liquidate to their early graves?
I love freedom of the press but responsible reporting is important. It is the intricate mix of hatred and manipulation for personal gain that l disagree with and with the post the latter that was the case . little wonder very few people are sad even fewer will be happy when you succeed. The moral lesson? Never be personal when you can be professional!
Umwana ekalisha lilya anya. Serves you right Mmembe, though you only have yourself to blame. You are even lucky you are not an American because you could have had been jailed for tax evasion.
Too bad Fred, you went to bed with the devil and you will be swallowed in the process. During the era of the late Ba MCS the PF government could do no wrong and you became a mouthpiece of MCS. On that score you deserve what is coming to you.
You abandoned your role as the mouthpiece of the people and focused on DIGGING DEEPER FOR CONTRACTS from the Government.
These are consequences of being a hypocrite.
Never sleep with a politician. When they leave they take the duvet with them!
@ Rigger, Iwe wilabikamo ba Sata abakaele. You are obsessed with ba Sata even in his death, you are sick. Mr Sata has done for this Country than what your father or your grandfather or indeed yourself will ever do. Plz let him rest in peace you 1mbecile.
You suffer from the same disease/ virus as did Mmembe who was obsessed with FTJ even in his death until he saw that people were no longer interested in that news item. You are a sick depraved man you 1mbecile
I sympathise with you Fred MMembe but you have only yourself to blame. Remember in 2011 when everyone of us well meaning citizens said michael Sata was not presidential material, your newspaper went flat out to ensure that michael sata was elected president. and true to your objective, Sata became president. Making sata president was the beginning of the post’s problems. Now you see you have this corrupt edgar who will stop at nothing to empty zambian coffers. YOU HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME. STOP CRYING FOUL AND TRYING TO WIN SYMPATHY. FACE THE MUSIC ALONE. As for me and my house, I will never support egdar….over my dead body! Always moving forward with UPND and HH!
Zo-ona true.
If you sink your dipstick into a Komboni tavern hul.e, expect that dipstick to start corroding, & your engine to eventually knock, & you die!!
Mmembe is part of what is wrong with Satas baby – the P.F party.
THERE’S NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST MMEMBE BY THE GOVERNMENT OR WHOEVER. THE POST NEWSPAPER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAYING TAX AND THIS CAN NEVER BE OVEREMPHASISED.TAX IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ANY GOVERNMENT ON EARTH. IF COMPANIES, ETC, ARE NOT PAYING TAX- HOW DOES ANYONE EXPECT TO FIND NURSES AND DOCTORS IN HOSPITALS, ETC? I HAVEN’T EVEN BOTHERED TO SWIM INTO MMEMBE’S CROCODILE TEARS. BUT I KNOW MMEMBE HAS FILLED THE SWIMMING POOL WITH HIS SELF-SYMPATHY TEARS. LIPILENI UMUSONKO BA BWANA AND THEN WRITE ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT FAILING PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES TO IT’S CITIZENS. WITHOUT PAYING TAX, YOU CANNOT BE THE RIGHT INSTITUTION TO CONDEMN THE GOVERNMENT. SELA BABOMBEKO ABALI SERIOUS.
M’membe is behaving like a thief who after being caught stealing a goat, and is jailed starts saying why did they jail me when there are 14 million Zambians they could have picked from.
Mr M’membe, what is difficult in understanding that you have messed yourself up by continuously messing up citizens by stealing their money through tax evasion, stealing from DBZ through loans, stealing fees from NAC, and also loans from ZISC.
Actually wait, more more claims will come. You will be fortunate if you have enough assets. Otherwise you may find yourself behind bars.
Good riddance Mmembe.
You thought you were the smartest.
Unless you run away jail awaits you for your hatred and hypocrisy.
Freddie, I sincerely feel your pain. Freddie, I am told you are a product of two esteemed Parents who hail from Barotseland on one hand and Bembaland on the other. Sadly, you failed to adhere to the old adage from your martenal Bembaland which says and I quote ‘ Icikulya icupempula’ or whatever! You worked so hard to bring the PF into power in 2011 but the same PF is closing your Company today! What an unfair world or is it a question of patronisation instead of professionalism. Next time I hope you will do things differently.
HOW HAVE THEY BECONE EVIL NOW? AND WHO WANTEDTO ANIHILATE WHO? YOU ARE JUST PAYING FOR YOUR SINS.
No sympathy to Mmembe at all. His support for PF and Satan in 2011 was illogical. Anybody with half a brain could have foreseen the despotic and intolerance tendencies of PF. It’s not only Lungu but the whole of PF, a violent bunch of people. Why did Mmembe hope that things could be better under PF? Even his aunt, the treacherous Inonge Wina, cannot help him. Bye bye to The PFost. You were good when you had brains to fight corruption in MMD but lost it when you ignored the tyrrany of Sata and PF. Good riddance. You have been swallowed by your own lilombamema.
@ James Bunga, I agree with you totally, Mmembe took journalism to another level……. manipulation, scandalising, intimidation, opportunistic, insulting etc. But everything has its time. The mighty Mmembe thought he was untouchable but well, there you are. God has provided a good time where by you are left powerless you the might Mmembe. Not flya mwalempntawila nga abantu balandako
Who would have thought that the mighty Mmembe would fall and what a great down fall
The benefits of being ruled by a Chakolwa and a convicted hardcore swindler if you don’t agree with him or work with he will punish you the hard way.
Edgar Chakolwa we need you fix the economy you have badly messed up not individuals against your clueless leadership.
Fixing hypocrites like this one is one of the steps of fixing the economy.
One Zambia – u are just living in a dreamers paradise – to imagine that your Lungu can fix the economy…ha ha ha – it all starts with governance & especially in Africa, if u don’t get governance right, forget about economic development- real development not those Sonta programs sustained from borrowed funds that they are now failing to pay back – good luck Edward as IMF comes easy next year…
Next time you will hear the man without head and neck saying his drunkard boss got nothing to do with the post liquidation.
Thats the truth. Mweembe should just pay his taxes and stop pretending to be King Maker
Mmembe must just find another business to do, this has failed.
No matter how vocal you may be, you can not definitely play games with Government.
I empathize with my brothers and sisters who are employees of this broke company.
The star symbol on Mmembe’s head cap speaks a lot about the man’s beliefs unless he is wearing such ignorantly.
Uwawa tabula kabepesho. Mmembe you stopped fighting corruption a long time ago. You embarked on a crusade to eliminate those you didn’t want especially Edgar.
I don’t get what you mean in that language. Whatever! Mmembe got what was coming to him.
It means when one falls he’ll accuse other persons of having caused his fall
And Chiluba
He was involved in corruption
How did he manage tax to get tax forgiveness from Mwanawasa and Sata. He fixed RB because he refused to play by his games. But ECL PROMISED to recover the people’s money from tax evaders like post. It is game over Mr snake charmer.
All hail the King…!
He voluntarily helped M C Satan to become the Zambian president when infact knew the man is incapable of ruling that’s why I always say cursed is the day the pangarian family (PF) was formed and day Edgar chakolwa Kaloba Wrungu was born and became the president.
wait for next republic president pf leader in 2021
Before this, it was Chiluba this, Chiluba that, then it was Levy this, Levy tha, then it was Rupiah this and Rupiah that and then came his champion. He vuvuzelad Sata and even refused to ‘dig shallow’ to tell the country that Sata was ill. Up to the last minute, the paper that ‘digs deeper’ kept burying the news while it was working in dark corners to set up another surrogate President. All the scheming failed and now we are back to Lungu this, Lungu that. What legitimacy has the Post to talk against corruption when it was protected by corrupt politicians and is now hiding behind its own hand picked judges not to pay its dues?
Just peyi bwana!
@ The Saint, At least Levy become a darling to Mmembe when they became business partners of Zambian Airways and whatever else. But Chiluba who could not offer him anything was an enemy unto death and even in his grave.
Membe will go in the history of this Country as a sick man
M’membe, haven’t you heard? You only reap what you sow. That is the law of nature.
It’s not the law of nature – it’s the law of the jungle by a clueless leader who does not respect court orders or even the supreme law of the land – a man who is busy but speedily taking the nation to a bottomless pit yet they are still people who support him whole heartedly – a man who is speedily destroying all governance institutions with illiterates & semi literates ululating and busy dancing unknown dununa dances….
@Dob you sound like you re writing from Kabul, how is ISIS doing over there?
With this kind of thinking you progress to nowhere. With thinkers like this,Zambia is doomed.
Time to scater. The csrtel is in disarray. The days of wielding pen power to make kings are gone. Membe you ll walk alone, under five, chief rigger and all your surrogates you were proping up have deserted you.
SO, WHERE IS WYNTER KABIMBA WHEN MMEMBE NEEDS HIM?
First and fore most people should have respect for our leaders that seize to live among us, what a shame. The truth here that everyone needs to look at the common factor here, M’membe(The Post) and the blame game.
These employees no doubt executed their duties and now they need their benefits or was that not part of the contract/payroll agreement with regards to deductions at the end of each month?
Stop crying wolf and face the music, you wrote the sound track now dance!
“the Post Newspaper has a strong stance to educate the masses on government corruption and abuse” LIE, BOZA, UBUFI, The Post miseducated the masses about PF. The post went into a corrupt relationship with Sata and helped him win elections. The post was part of any abuse of the masses by PF
As far as Mmembe was concerned Sata was archangel Michael whose contracting of eurobonds was not a sin. Now Edgar nafwala amala ya mbushi Mmembe heaps all failure on him when it’s Sata who committed these sins.
With all his shortcomings, i still hold M’membe in very high esteem. We are all human beings so is Fred,we are all bound to make mistakes and Fred has never claimed to be perfect, he has on many occasions admitted his flaws without justifying any of them.He has certainly contributed positively to the well being of mother Zambia a million times more than what most of you critics will ever dream of contributing even in your wildest dreams.
Don’t expect perfection from your fellow imperfect human being,he is not a god but just a human.
Being a genius he is,is not a crime.
None of you will ever achieve what M’membe has achieved in his miserable life.
No honest man will ever attempt to crucify a sincere person like Fred just for one mistake.
What of all the good things he has been…
Kundo – Do you have any idea how many people went to an early grave because of Mmembe’s biased reporting? Nobody is talking about perfection here – calling Mmembe sincere is dishonesty at a very high level.
@One Zambia I agree with you 100%. To call Meembe a sincere person when the person was insincere in his dealings with our own ZRA is hypocrisy of the worst order.
Call a spade a spade
I don’t agree with most of the comments – the whole post saga is masterminded by Lungu to completely annihilate the free press – by the way, how about all the institutions including ZNBC, Zambia Railways Daily Nation etc, etc who owe ZRA money – are they exempt from paying taxes? Anyway, for me, I have never & will never defend despots like Lungu – that’s the more reason, this nation is heading nowhere with Edward at the helm no matter what u can say or think- that’s why I have a strong feeling that Zambia will end up the Zimbabwe way with all these revelations about the true state of the economy from the mouth of Mutati & off course of recent the IMF-& talking about the IMF & other donors, I doubt if they will fund this govt. In the current form-& those who think IM and donors can…
Most people know that Lungu has fixed Mmembe and his PFost using ZRA. That’s not in contention. What people are saying is that this is only possible because PF is in power and that Mmembe supported PF in 2011. Lungu is doing what he is doing for his own survival. But if Sata had not become President in 2011, and Sata in his dying days had not left Lungu as Acting President, Lungu would not have become President who subsequently shut down the PFost. Lungu will be Lungu but Mmembe made a huge mistake with Sata and PF in 2011.
A NORMAL PERSON CAN NOT SUPPORT A MEDIA HOUSE THAT IS SO ARROGANT TO THE GOVT THEY OWE 53 MILLION IN UNPAID TAX. AUGUST 11 2016 WAS THE DAY WE VOTED FOR JUSTICE.
VIVA ECL
VIVA PF
VIVA ZAMBIA
Cartel – some of us are very normal but do not support destruction of almost all institutions – the courts, ACC, DEC,ECZ, courts etc MAYBE name any institution in the land which is operating in a sane manner under Edward? Keep on vivaling Chagwa that’s your choice mune – for some of us its the entire bigger picture that matters…..
SO, LUNGU MASTER-MINDED THE NON-PAYMENT OF TAX BY THE POST NEWSPAPER? IF THAT’S THE CASE, THEN, LUNGU IS A GENIOUS, BABA.
Mr Mmembe just pay and save your face, why bring in the President as if its him who told u not to be paying taxes
Yama ba M’membe , just pay taxes and stop blaming anyone for Your corrupt practices. You thought you were God no one would touch you. 1. You got the loan from DBZ , 2.You and Mutembo screwed your workers at Zambian Airways with no pay and benefits. 3 You same M’membe screwed Zambians by propping up Sata as the champion of Democracy when in fact you were targeting businesses from his government. Immediately he won you went on to buy trucks ( post courtiers) . Lipileni fye Yama , otherwise you are ripping what you deserve.
It’s time for Mmaybe to pay for all his hypocrisy during MCS and obviously ECL is just the instrument God is using to punish Mmaybe. Time will come for ECL to be judged too for this injustice on Mmaybe but Mmaybe maybe getting his just dues.
Mutupa – I advise u not to mention God in your postings – the same Chagwa u are saying God is using is just a cheap hypocrite who honours God with his mouth while his actions are far from God – whatever role Lungu has played or is still playing in the Post issue, God knows to the exact detail and one day him, you and me will give account of our deeds or misdeeds to the Almighty…so mune keep God out of this and seek him truly with your whole heart…to some of us this whole this is political with someone somewhere pulling the strings & ZRA merely dancing to the tune…I say so coz there are a lot of media institutions including ZNBC, Times, Daily Nation who owe a lot of money more than the post….and there’s no law that exempts them from paying taxes
Goliath aka kundo sina we know fred literary feeds you so to you he can do no wrong. But incase you cannot smell the coffee your days of destroying others is over! You felt u could manipulate zambia but u were soooo wrong. Let Fred go and practise law maybe he can join malita. Lastly let him expose the corruption of Mosho
M’membe thought he was untouchable, let him dance his song period if some of you n’membe is your relative then cry with him cause he never contributed anything in this country unless were he has some interest.
Really laughable…Fred use this spare time you have to enrol on a proper Journalism course not that stuff you were scribbling in anger in your Editorials. You thought you were smart when you had Young George, former Post staff and Michael at State House.
You danced with devil for your selfish reasons…
Eeeh it was oke to use Mmembe in election campaign prio to Mr Sata coming to power because all of you were being led by Mmembe through the Post. You were all buying the Post religiously and believing everything he was reporting. Only few people had the guts to disagree with Membe and staunch Membe followers would castgate them for opposing the mighty Mmembe.
But infact time has provided itself, you know there is always the rise and fall and its not even because of Lungu. Lungu just happens to be there at the right time that’s all. During SAta’s time Membe was at his peak and untoucgable, now he must fall chapwa
The problem with fred he thinks he holds zambia by its balls, government or no government Fred you went too far. And knowing your conduct you deserve to remain a poor animal.
This is one of the reasons i voted for ECL on 11/08/2016(to defeat the cartel-Fred M’membe and his evil team).so up to now Fred M’membe do not know why Wynter Kabimba (his friend) lost 2016 elections badly?even hh also lost in 2016 because of his association with evil Post Newspaper!!!Wise Zambians like me read between the lines that Fred’s newspaper praises presidents who allow him not to pay tax-shame!!!Look,i stopped buying and reading The Post in 2014 when i discovered how crooked M’membe is.ECL IS INDEED SLIM BUT VERY HEAVY!!!IF HE MANAGES TO CLOSE DOWN THE POST,I’LL EVER LOVE HIM BECAUSE FRED VIA HIS POST HAS DONE GREAT DAMAGE TO MOTHER ZAMBIA THAN GOOD!!!WE ALL PAY TAX DAILY,SO WHY CANT FRED PAY?TO HELL WITH HIS MEDIA FREEDOM!!!CAN THEY BE MEDIA FREEDOM MINUS PEACE?WE LOVE OUR…
Extremely cheap view indeed – you seem not to understand what u are talking about – that’s why & how u can vote for a person who clearly tells u that he has no vision – I do totally agree with my former lecturer that semi literates are more dangerous than complete illiterates. …for your own information, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Nation & ZNBC owe ZRA more than the Post & them do not even make an effort to pay
No sympathy from me bwana rotten Maembe.You persecuted RB and cheered on the abuses of PF leadership and now i’m happy things have come full circle for you- what goes around ,comes around.
@ Mzambia wa Zamani, RB was simply the most corrupt useless president, with or without Mmembe. We could all see it , his sons , wife etc and himself, his travels his drunkenness, his love for money. RB stall so much in just 3 years, he beat Chiluba of 10 years. So Zamani just shut up
Extremely cheap view indeed – you seem not to understand what u are talking about – that’s why & how u can vote for a person who clearly tells u that he has no vision – I do totally agree with my former lecturer that semi literates are more dangerous than complete illiterates. …for your own information, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Nation & ZNBC owe ZRA more than the Post & them do not even make an effort to pay
Fred, this is what we call a reality check. You became so big headed and thought you could manipulate everything in Zambia including who should be president! Life is not like that. To begin with, tax evasion is a crime and all tax evaders must be jailed. You contribute to hunger when you evade tax, you deprive the country of the much needed resources for development. Simply put, you are a thief. Last time I checked, all thieves belong to jail!!!
Thought u said u got money,today pf is bad years day its good where do u stand
Members,member what has hit you?you were thinking you are clever but now u are very very dull.The lawyer has managed to fix the cartel.For this i will forever greatful to whoever has done.if it is EL i say congulatulations my president,may God prolong your life.
Iwe Mmembe, should we care who liquidates your Post? What is important to us is that finally someone has sorted you out, finally. We shall celebrate the last nail in your coffin!
M’membe is behaving like a thief who after being caught stealing a goat, and is jailed starts saying why did they jail me when there are 14 million Zambians they could have picked from.
Mr M’membe, what is difficult in understanding that you have messed yourself up by continuously messing up citizens by stealing their money through tax evasion, stealing from DBZ through loans, stealing fees from NAC, and also loans from ZISC.
Actually wait, more more claims will come. You will be fortunate if you have enough assets. Otherwise you may find yourself behind bars.
This president called lungu is a pure dictator he is the worst in the history of this nation .Matako yako! Machende! Useless you have destroyed our democracy people used to enjoy reading the post newspaper. Days are numbered
I disliked M’Member when he sung songs to Sata. At the time I supported RB who has let us down. but there’s no justification for any Zambian to rejoice over what Lungu is doing to Fred. the mines owe GRZ alot of money. why has Lungu not liquidated them thru his agents? this is why I tell you that God does not hear Lungu’s hypocritical prayers
Did Edgar mastermind this? Yes. How? By not interfering with ZRA and other institutions to protect Mmembe like his predicessor did.
Fred life is a journey and only the strong can move on,in this situation fred stop game blaming cos u cost it your self.if u cant pay tax then just be mute cos our biggest intrest is recovering what u and the chinto brothers did to us,pay back our money u fool.live president lungu alone,the president is not your partner in crime so do a right thing then good things will follow u mr fred.u only see corruption in government than in u yourself ka?uli chipuba sana ka fred and let me tell u u no longer make sense to this nation cos even if we help u back on track your reporting is is very unprofessional so why should we sympathize with u forsake apa……
Ok Mmembe, its dununa reverse for your Post…… Zambians will forgive you for all the wrong deeds, plz forgive yourself and start afresh this time around either as a lecturer or watever yo hand findeth to do. Yo still our zambian brother.
This ka foolish gay i.diot should just pay the 53 million and no one will bother with him. He should not play victim now and make a statement without indicating when he will pay the 53 million. We want it now to help solve social demands like hospitals and schools. He is the one who is corrupt by taking presidents to bed to avoid paying tax. Your time has come JUST PAY YOU I.DIOT
Mmembe your news paper is good but you allowed too much politics …PF SHOULD NOT HAVE MADE GOVERNMENT if you didn’t play politics as a news paper, so you lost like a political party…….
Membe is the one who composed the song. Let him dance to it. No sympathy for you.
Membe is the one who composed the song. Let him dance to it. No sympathy for you. Hope he will learn important lessons of life.
I love this and I’m grand he is paying for his sins. No where to run. You’ve been a very bad man for our country. Well done PF government.
These guys, they sent FTJ to the early grave…
Some of you people I don’t understand you. You write as if you do not live here in Zambai.Mmembe has made it very clear that he can never support a corrupt regime. Is Lungu’s regime clean? You know the answer because the President himself was castigating some of his ministers for being corrupt the other day.Mmembe supported the PF under the late Sata but does not support the PF under Lungu for reasons that you know very well.Sata and Lungu are two different people.
When Sata was alive people said his government was the most corrupt but now he’s in the grave, all his evils are buried with him while an angelic portrait has been created for him here on earth.
All people talking bad things about Mmembe are just jealous of what this patriot has achieved in his life. Life is a very good teacher. To day its Mmembe tomorrow it will be you. That is when you will understand how rotten the system at play is. God Bless Zambia.
Imwe Sata was very popular even without the Post newspapers would’ve own the 2011 elections. Mmembe was a chancer, if He is a king maker why did he fail to make HE president…
Fred MMembe HH and GBM are not clever individuals. ECL is the same as he used to but he is insulated by the office of the President. Just like you Fred you have been insulated by the Incorporation of the POST except that the rules governing Incorporation and rules governing Presidency are different. To fight Lungu in equivalent to fighting the Zambian people. The best you can do is to fight very hard so that in 2021 you remove him. Then mukamulye umubishi ba kabwa. Simple advice.,
I would rather vote for a person who confesses that he is vision less but doing right thing than vote for a person who wants to ride on the Post news paper so that they stop taxes. That is more vision less in action than the twisted pronouncements.
I see from the comments that M’membe aint getting no love from pips, too bad
closing the post will not in any way help to solve the current economic crisis zambia is facing the earlier you realise that the better for all of us.
The one million dollar question is who shall be next? The simple answer is ” anyone who shall not oblige by the Taxman’s conditions”. Imagine all of us decided NOT to pay the due Tax, what would become of this country? Always look at a bigger picture.
Yah it will give good business to the jail bird Richard SAkala so that he can continue singing praises to his tribes mate Lungu….. umodzi ku mawa
RichRD sAKAL IS ANOTHER WORST TRIBALIST
YOU HAVE FINALLY BEEN SORTED OUT, NO MORE HOLDING RULING GOVERNMENTS AT RANSOM WITH YOUR DIRTY WAY OF COLLECTING INCRIMINATING VERY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO USE AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
Fred, be sincere to yourself and we’ll meaning Zambians by accepting that you’ve a big problem, the.ego in you. You think you’re the only intelligent personality in Zambia, FALSE. Instead there are many zambians educated even above you. You’ve a bitter unforgiving heart and are selfish. Have you ever thought of what you’ve been doing to the citizens of this country who go for medicals at hpspitalsvwhere you would step your feet? No, if your stealing from govt in unpaid taxes would affect UTH and other health facilities operations, something you don’t bother about, you would ‘ve obliged to pay ZRA knowing fully we’ll where these monies are used. You problem is, you think paying taxes would only fatten the pockets of corrupt ministers, and therefore why pay. It doesn’t matter who…
Failing to pay Tax and Salaries to your employees is the worst corruption. So Mmembe shut up your stinking.mouth.
Give Ceaser wat belongs him& Jehovah God wat is due for Him. Plz, its not about Data MHSRIP, Edgar or PF BT Mmembez tax evasion activities. Wen will yo heads begin working properly? Only uncivilised cadre can fail to understand this plain& simple issue. Mmembe was suppose to v paid all the tax due& life continues! Ukupesha Lunshi, kunya patatu! Mmembe shd v paid all da tax to shame any acts motivated by cheap politics!
Remember, a baby can only play with the mother’s breasts and not playing with the father’s testicles, period!
I disagree with all those assertions that Mmembe got what he deserved. How can laws be applied selectively and be considered right? He is a victim of political thuggery and abuse of power. Sadly many Zambia only try to see the surface of an issue. Press supporting preferred candidates is not an offence under Zambian law. The here is whether the country gains out of shutting down an important means for leverage by those discontented with government. Will they get back the millions owed by shutting the post? The answer’s no. Why kill the goose then? This issue will haunt ICL forever. It’ll be a terrible precedent for our country.