EXPELLED PF MPs PETITION SAMPA, NG’ONA OVER THEIR DISMISSAL
THE NINE expelled PF members of parliament have contested their ejection from the former ruling party by Secretary General Morgan Ng’ona in the Lusaka High Court.
The nonet argue that PF Secretary General Morgan Ng’ona has no authority to hound them out of the party as his appointment by PF president Miles Sampa is illegal.
Ronald Chitotela, Nickson Chilangwa, Musonda Mpankata, Christopher Kang’ombe, Remember Mutale, Brian Mundubile, Stephen Kampyongo, Mulenga Fube and Mutotwe Kafwaya have petitioned Sampa, Ng’ona and the Attorney General over their dismissal on reasons that Sampa’s ascendancy to the presidency of the party is illegitimate.
The nine argue that Sampa was expelled by Edgar Lungu’s illegal vice president Given Lubinda for misconduct before he held an illegal convention on October 24, 2023 where he was elected as PF president.
They said procedure was not followed prior to the convention being held as Sampa had no blessing from the central committee.
“Since the events of Sampa being purportedly elected as party president and Ng’ona being purportedly appointed as Secretary General of the party, they begun to disrupt the functions of the party by writing several letters to the clerk of the National Assembly claiming that positions of the party in the National Assembly had been given to new members of the party when the two were actually strangers and outsiders to the party,” the nonet said.
“The petitioners learnt through social media that Ng’ona using his purported powers as Secretary General of the party had issued letters addressed to the petitioners claiming to expel them from the party.”
The nine said Ng’ona has informed the speaker of the National Assembly about their expulsion but they have never received any disciplinary letters charging them with any offence neither have they ever received the purported letters of expulsion.
They are seeking a declaration that Ng’ona has no requisite authority to expel them or any other member of the party.
Chitotela and others want the High Court to declare that the purported actions of the speaker to act on the letters sent to her by Ng’ona purporting to be the SG of the PF is illegal, null and void ab initio as such actions are a violation of Article 60(2) of the Constitution (Amendment) Act No. 2 of 2016.
The nine want an interim order allowing them and their camp (Lungu Faction) to operate freely and Sampa and Ng’ona should stop carrying themselves as leaders of the party.
Kalemba