Heritier’s not going to take orders

HERITIER Lumumba has slammed Nathan Buckley’s response to the previously secret tape recordings from their meetings, declaring he “stopped taking orders a very long time ago” from his former Collingwood coach.

Opening up on his decision to leak audio recordings from his tumultuous final year at the Magpies, Lumumba said he had “countless hours” of conversations with Buckley and “other people” he had not yet released but kept to “preserve his legal interests”.

As he declared Collingwood would “always remain a club that is associated with racism”, Lumumba (pictured) said he was driven to release the recordings after his version of his treatment at the club had been

continually “undermined” and become “intolerable”.

“This has been a nineyear history and I think what prompted me is the time that has elapsed, the time that I have given him to just own the truth and own the facts of the matter,” Lumumba said on ABC News Breakfast.

“Instead what he has done is undermine my truth, undermine the reality of what took place. I just could not accept that any more.”

In a tweet to Lumumba, Buckley responded to the leaked audio by urging him to “put a full and uncut version of our conversations on the public record so as to provide context to our conversations…”.

Lumumba said he had not yet released the full versions of the recordings as it would be “countless hours”.

“What I would say to Nathan Buckley is this is not a football match. I stopped taking orders from Nathan Buckley a very long time ago,” Lumumba said.

“I will share my truth as I see fit.”

The audio, tweeted by Lumumba on Tuesday, appears to verify his claim that Buckley accused him of throwing Eddie McGuire “under a bus” when he publicly questioned the then Collingwood president’s infamous King Kong gaffe.