MUNDUBILE ALLEGES MOPANI DEAL WAS ILLEGAL AND WILL BE REVERSED AFTER CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT
By Fridah Chalwe
Patriotic Front Member of the Central Committee Brian Mundubile has alleged that the deal between government and the new investors at Mopani Copper Mines is illegal and will be reversed once there is change of government.
Speaking when he featured on a Radio Program at Mafken FM in Mufulira District, Mr. Mundubile stressed that the deal at Mopani was supposed to be approved by parliament before handing the mine to the investor International Resource Holdings (IRH)
He emphasized that Mopani should have remained under Zambian ownership, reflecting the nation’s right to control its mineral wealth adding that even up-to-date no single amount of money has been paid on the Mopani sale which is a constitutional breach rendering the deal illegal.
Mr. Mundubile is a lawyer and should know that the takeover of KCM by PF was illegal and he knows very well that we lost the subsequent arbitration cases. If he has not learnt anything from their debacle, then PF is truly incorrigible. The illegal take over of Zamtel from LapGreen of Libya resulted in us compensating the Libyan company USD380million. PF never talk about this and they need to be reminded about their costly blunders.
Can Mr. Mundubile tell us how we benefited from their illegal takeover of KCM? If anything, it is the PF officials who ripped off the nation. If I recall correctly, the KCM liquidator appointed by the late former president, Mr. Lungu, surrendered USD25million to the UPND government and his case went quiet. This was just a fraction of what was looted by PF leaving the company struggling. And Mr. Mundubile talks about reversing the decision to give back the company to its rightful owners!
PF is the true representation of hypocrisy, lies and lawlessness.
JMC – there is a saying that “If a Fool Keeps Quite, he may be considered Wise”…
The case of our so called Learned Friend…
No one wants to mention that we lost the Litigation in RSA over KCM and UPND had no other Option but bring back Vendetta…
If we didn’t, Vendetta was going to ask us to pay them an Arm and a Leg….
These hypocrites know these facts and they have taken advantage of the collective ignorance of the Zambians…