I AM BEING INVESTIGATED BY VIRTUE OF BEING DAUGHTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT, SAYS TASILA

TASILA Lungu contends that the State should be honest and admit that she was being investigated because she was the daughter of former President Edgar Lungu and not that she was a criminal.

She submits, “the deponent Emmanuel Khondwe has also failed to mention that my father was the former President of Zambia and hence the reason for the investigations carried out which I believe are deliberate, intentional and malicious following the change of government after the August 2021 presidential elections.”

Ms Lungu has also accused the State of having purposefully inflated the value of her seized farm No F/2278 in Sinda, contending that as at November 2022, the said property was not worth as much as K13, 950, 378.83, the figure was incorrect.

This is in a matter in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) applied to the Economic and Financial Crimes Court for a non-conviction-based order to have the Sinda farm forfeited to the State for being tainted property.

Ms Lungu has now sought leave of the court to file her affidavit in opposition to the DPP’s application.

She submitted that she has been unwell and not able to adequately provide instructions to her lawyers to complete the affidavit in opposition to DPP’s originating notice of motion relating to the farm.

“That in the circumstance I was unable to provide my advocate with supporting documentary evidence to properly oppose the applicant originating notice of motion which I believe is founded on unsubstantial evidence and is misleading and factually incorrect as I have demonstrated herein as stated below,” she submitted.

Ms Lungu stated that she bought the said property at K300, 000 and that she had not been involved in any criminal activity in respect of which the forfeiture of the property is sought.