Akafumba should not impersonate, says Kambwili
NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) president Chishimba Kambwili has warned his former vice president Joseph Akafumba and others that anyone
putting a claim to the party leadership risks being jailed for impersonation.
Mr Kambwili told journalists yesterday that after last Saturday's NDC general conference, Zambia and the world were now aware about the party owners.
He was speaking at the Lusaka Magistrates Court complex shortly after the case he has been put on his defence for defamation of the President was adjourned to today because both the prosecution and the defence were not ready to proceed yesterday.
In this matter, Lusaka Magistrate Felix Kaoma has found Kambwili with a case to answer for alleging that Lusaka business executive Valden Findlay was using the Presidential jet to courier drugs.
Mr Kambwili said politicians do not run political parties in courts and that the NDC followed its constitution to hold the general conference where he was elected as its president.
He challenged Mr Akafumba and his camp to call a central committee, national governing management body, or even a ward meeting if they were a party.
"How can you claim to have a party when you don't even have a ward? We followed procedure, the rest is history and we are not going to waste time exchanging words with the Akafumbas.
“This is the last time I am issuing a statement concerning that group because there are inconsequential," Mr. Kambwili said.
He said proceedings in the Ndola High Court relating to the battle over NDC leadership were stayed and that last Friday Mr Akafumba and his group just obtained leave to commence contempt proceedings against him and not an injunction.
He said Mr Akafumba and others said they had removed him as NDC president because he was just an interim president before the convention elected him.
Mr. Kambwili said those who had failed always have reasons for their failure and that those rushing to courts and the media have no basis.
He said they were only six people fighting the entire NDC.
“This is the last time I am issuing a statement concerning that group because there are inconsequential,”