MMD Will Not Allow Anyone Or The PF To Destabilise It-Nevers

Police yesterday blocked MMD supporters who went to offer solidarity to Mumba at the Lusaka High Court, where he appeared for a case in which his two vice-presidents want him and 34 others cited for contempt of court.
Michael Kaingu and Dr Brian Chituwo want Mumba and others cited for disregarding a court order that restrained the MMD from proceeding with an extraordinary national executive committee (NEC) meeting held at Lusaka’s Kapingila Guest House on April 27.
However, the matter before Lusaka High Court judge Eddie Sikazwe did not take off after Kaingu and Dr Chituwo, through their lawyer Paul Katupisha, applied for an adjournment in chambers to allow them respond to an affidavit sworn by acting party national secretary Chembe Nyangu and filed in court last Friday, asking the court to strike out the case for irregularities.
Nyangu early last week filed another affidavit verifying that he had communicated to Mumba and others about the injunction that stopped the meeting from proceedings but they went ahead with the meeting.
Addressing his supporters outside the High Court premises after the matter was adjourned to this Friday, Mumba urged his party members to remain focused so that in 2016, it produces a new government out of the new MMD.
“We want to say to anybody, the PF that want to destabilise us, that they shall not succeed. We are going to be determined to bring new politics in Zambia. This is jubilee, a time to forgive, a time to forget, a time to rest for Zambia. This is not time to take each other to court,” he said.
Mumba said jubilee was a time to reconcile as a nation and bring out new politics in the country.
He said the MMD would be refined after undergoing tribulations and difficulties.
Mumba said the new MMD was being born and would do away with old politics of hatred, bitterness and trying to confuse the aspirations of the people.
He said Zambians were crying because of the many problems the PF had caused.
Mumba said what the party needed was to challenge the PF on the difficulties Zambians were facing.
Earlier, some MMD supporters were prevented from entering the High Court premises and gathered outside the courts where they sang solidarity songs and chanted the party slogan. When Mumba disembarked from his vehicle, he went to greet the supporters who escorted him up to entrance where many of them were turned back as police conducted a screening.
Police manned all the court entrances and kept vigil to prevent any supporters from entering the premises.
Traffic came to a standstill from time to time on Chikwa Road as motorists had to wait for police to clear the cadres of the road.