Nakacinda, group stranded with court documents meant for Miles
RAPHAEL Nakacinda and group are stranded with court documents they are suppose to serve Miles Sampa to prevent him from carrying out PF presidential duties following his election at the extraordinary general conference yesterday.
The group is making frantic efforts to locate Sampa and hand him the ex-parte order awarded in their favour against the the Matero member of parliament who has been a pebble in the party’s boots.
At an impromptly-organised convention, Sampa beat six other candidates to assume the presidency of the party.
After his installation as party president, Sampa appointed Morgan Ng’ona as party Secretary General and this morning submitted a list of new office bearers to the Registrar of Societies.
Sampa’s election did not go down well with other party who rushed to court and filed an order to prevent the Matero member of parliament from posturing as party president.
However, the court remains ineffective as they have been unable to serve to Sampa who is said to have travelled out of the country on parliamentary duties.
High Court Judge Situmbeko Chocho granted the order to Alebwelapo project coordinator Raphael Nakacinda who applied as as PF Secretary General.
In the ex-party order for an interim injunction stopping Sampa from presenting himself as a member of the PF or hijacking the captaincy of the PF boat, Judge Chocho has barred the newly elected PF boss from changing the names of office bearers of the party at the Registrar of Societies.
“Upon hearing counsel for the plaintiff and upon reading the affidavit in support filed herein deposed to by Raphael Nakacinda it is hereby ordered that the defendant be and is hereby restrained from holding himself out as a member of the Patriotic Front Party, a party functionary of the Patriotic Front Party or a leader of the Patriotic Front Party,” reads the order.
“It is further ordered that the defendant is restrained from approaching the Registrar of Societies to effect any changes to the register of members of the Patriotic Front Party as it appears at the Registrar of societies either by himself, his agents, servants or whosoever.”
According to the penal notice judge Chocho warned to commit Sampa and his agents to prison for contempt of Court if they disobey her orders.
She guided that Nakacinda will indemnify Sampa if she establishes there was no concrete reason to grant the Given Lubinda lead PF faction an injunction.
The inter-party hearing for the said application has been slated for November 21, 2023.
In this matter Nakacinda who has instituted the action against Sampa in his capacity as Secretary General of the Given Lubinda lead faction is challenging the selection of Sampa as PF president by party members during an extraordinary convention that was held at Mulungushi international conference center in Lusaka yesterday.
Nakacinda and his counterpart Given Lubinda who have have defied two Court orders stopping them from masquerading as PF leaders argue that the election of Sampa is illegal as the expelled him from the party for misconduct.
By Mwaka Ndawa
Kalemba