PF IN TROUBLE, LUBINDA REMOVED AS ACTING PARTY PRESIDENT
…as Miles Sampa manages injunction against Lubinda, Chilangwa
By New Dawn Reporter
EMBATTLED PF presidential aspirant Miles Sampa has celebrated the High Court experte Order granted to him to stop party acting president Given Lubinda and party acting secretary general, Nickson Chilangwa from suspending or expelling him.
This is after the Lusaka High Court judge, Justice Timothy Katenekwa, reversed Sampa’s suspension and ordered that neither Lubinda nor Chilangwa or any of their agents should remove, suspend or expel the Matero PF parliamentarian from the party until the court orders so.
The court, further ordered that neither Lubinda or Chilangwa should continue acting as party president or secretary general until the final determination of the matter by the court.
Sampa pulled a quick one after Lubinda and Chilangwa suspended him for speaking out on matters the party felt he was against the leadership and a collective position on national issues.
In granting Sampa an experte order, Justice Katenekwa ordered that, “ Upon hearing counsel for the plaintiff and upon reading the affidavit it filed in support and the plaintiff undertaking to pay for any damages which may legitimately arise or may be suffered by the defendants by reason of this order of interim injunction, it is hereby ordered that the interim injunction be is and hereby granted in the plaintiff and the defendants are hereby restrained either by themselves, servants, agents or any party superiors or member/s from, suspending or expelling or taking any action adverse to the plaintiff’s position as a member of the central committee and / or member of the Patriotic Front (PF) until the determination of the matter or further order of the Court.”
Further, Justice Katenekwa ordered that Lubinda and Chilangwa should stop acting as leaders of the PF until the final determination of the matter by the Court of law.
“From holding themselves out as acting president and party secretary general respectively of the Patriotic Front (PF) until the final determination of this matter or further order of the Court. From further defaming the plaintiff directly or indirectly or through innuendos,” the court ordered.
Justice Katenekwa has also set 16th February, 2023 as date for the interparte hearing of the matter.
