DEFUNCT Access Financial Services Limited directors Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chnugu and their lawyer John Sangwa have sued Task Force on Corruption executive chairman Maxwell Nkole for alleged false imprisonment.
The alleged false imprisonment relates to an incident in which Task Force officers held the trio under siege at the magistrates’ court complex for about four hours when they attempted to arrest Kabwe and Chungu after the duo ignored call-outs to appear before the anti-graft agency last year.
This is contained in a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court by Mr Sangwa.
He says on December 24, 2008 at about 09:30 hours, while he was talking to Kabwe and Chungu, police officers wrongfully and without reasonable cause forcibly detained and prevented them from leaving the complex until 13:00 hours when they were allowed to leave.
This was after Kabwe and Chungu had attended a court session in another case where they are jointly charged with MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba and four others for corrupt practices.
Mr Sangwa states that the officers acted on the premise that they had instructions from Mr Nkole to arrest Kabwe and Chungu.
“The police officers were at all material times under the direction and control of the defendant in the purported performance of his functions.
In the premises, the plaintiffs were wrongfully imprisoned and deprived of their liberty, and Mr Nkole is liable to the plaintiffs in respect of such imprisonment,” Mr Sangwa said.
He says the officers’ conduct was arbitrary, oppressive, illegal and or unconstitutional, and that the plaintiffs were therefore claiming exemplary damages.
Mr Sangwa says the officers failed or refused to listen to the plaintiffs’ explanation or pleas and threatened to use force on them.
“The police officers were armed with AK47 automatic rifles which they threatened to use. The imprisonment of the plaintiffs took place in full view of court officials and private legal practitioners,” he said.
Mr Sangwa says the officers ignored the plaintiffs’ explanation that there was a court order staying the defendants’ decision to arrest Kabwe and Chungu.
He says Kabwe and Chungu were kept without food or access to a lavatory during the said period.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
thats fine
Ililyashi twatendwa bane, drop this story!
Ilyashi lya ba kabolala twanaka nalyo.These :(|)are really pissing me up.If i were Obama i would start with these3:-o
Someone tell me who are de real criminals in dem ya story?
These bandits have no shame at all. They have the nerve and audacity to sue for the crimes the committed against humanity. They should be prosecuted at all costs
Aba bakabolala bamfwaika ukubalowa ubushilu so that they can understand the anguish we go through due to thier long and stick fingers has caused us not forgeting mpompwe mushibila nsala FTJ Kafupi Chiluba.
faustin kabwe and aaron chungu are just buying time, these thieves.
I can’t help but notice the tidy surroundings of the magistrate court. I wish the whole of Lusaka could be maintained like this.
“Chuckie” Taylor, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been sentenced by a US court to 97 years in prison for torture.
I met mr nkole’s daughter melo, what a nice family they are.
why not sue the task force as an entity and not one person?
also i think mr nkole could make a good minister
crazy world. Yestaday becoming 2moro.
where are my comments…?
ah! am tired of some of these issues,kanshi i will just watch and wait to hear what happens next.
Can anyone explain the Rules here ? Nine Chale pls explain? All my Comment sayin Nambala.. is gone. Pls explain the Rules in this Blog before I type and post in vain :((
Jamaco
This nambala thing has been banned by Lt! If you continue, they will add you on their moderation list.
jamaco and nine chale are one person
No we are not!!
We are both in Germany but not ONE!! Actually he ist my BRO!!
LT
nafileka cishendeni ci site chenu,what is wrong with my comments?
NO strong languege just trying to air my views on this matter at hand but you keep on holding my comments.Awe guys tamulebomba bwino,think of the time and energy used when typing.God bless you LT you will see I will open mine as well just wait I finish my school.
they should be caged
Matworld
No need to be angry papa.Go through your comments again may be there is one word, which is LT is not happy about
Chungu and Kabwe
You are very good pipo dont worry you will win the case Iam behind you guys.
LT
You see So you were holding my comments because I was against the acts of Chungu and Kabwe kaa!! Now tell me do this guys have shares mu LT or they own it? ok let me take a nup.Stay blessed.
@MAT I will suggest mwa leka ba LT !! Otherwise balatutamfya!! Ine naumfwa umwenso!!
Lock them up and Bwezani Banda to swallow the keys**==
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of these cases. Is there no end to this madness? I wish the country would benefit from these activities but the only winners are the lawyers and officers seconded to the task force.
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Were these guys really imprisoned.Is this not purvating the natural flow of justice? or are they just trying to at least just delay their fate
We vowed at the famous ‘Manda Hill Meeting’ where an announncement was officially made that the head of the snake had been crushed for good in biblical fashion.The details of which are that we will never allow this clique and their kind to ever rule this country again.This is why i was never worried about Banda losing the election to you know who. The security wings lived up to their promise,thank YOU. We will never make the same mistake again!
Now we want the biggest fish in the pond. Do not get his clothes and small shoes if he is not guilty because if he is, by all means then do lock the lilliputian up . This is what baffles me about the Zambian judicial system.
MASHOLI MUKAISE!!!!!
“The country has since 1991 remained a de -facto one party state while masquerading as amulti parti constitutional democratic regime by making some cosmetic changes to the legal structures over the years….”
Father Frank Bwalya
These criminals are buying time. Task Force these fellows surely must have some cases which you can easly get convictions get on with these first,so that when you commence bigger cases these chaps are cominng from prisons.You will see how they will want cases to move fast.
Like I always sing lets charge these plunderers with genocide, for all the Zambians who needlessly died for luck of medicines in our hospitals.
We must not let them abuse the legal system at all.
The law is the law,they are entitled to take legal action if there rights have been infringed upon irrespective of what you perceive them to be,remember they are guilty til proven innocent,Chiluba used all these people to take what belongs to us but let’s remember that until the courts decide,these people are innocent,we need to change mentality people,let’s not rush to talk talk!
There is also the issue of the Task Force not being legal,they have so much powers but those being prosecuted including some lawyers now think The Task force’s set up was not proper,they have no powers to arrest unless allowed by the constitution which the lawyers say is not the case,let’s wait & hear from judges.
contd from 32
What the heck did i say,i meant innocent until proven guilty,maybe it’s the lager am drinking. :d
Baby C
Even me ba LT have circumcised my “nambala” comment.Ba bwela hot
can someone give me a brief history of mr nkole
of these 34 comments only 8 or 9 are about the topic shame
That’s good
Task force-game. Its now a game and I think the task force has also noticed that. People are tied for 8 years pipo. Now it has started back firing on them and if they are not carefull they will start losing this cases. The thiefs now have noticed the loopholes in the Task force and they have started using them.
Please Task force dont wait for govnt to tell you what to do. It has started becoming clear that you are not independent because you act when the president talks about corruption.
Change the way yo do business. :-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?:-?~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(~X(
Sangwa, you pretty know that those are hard core criminal. The issue of saying their innocent until proven guity by courts of law should in this case be twisted. Every evidence is visible for even blind persons to see. Please keep this nonsense to your law firms. You stink like the Aoron & Faustine.
Please lock up these stinking thieves, we are tired of their smelly tactics. When did they realize that the task force was unlawful? The same task force has already made Richard Sakala, Kashiwa Bulaya, Gen Funjika, Chungu spend time inside. These bandits are next
The plunderers should just be hunged so that we forget about them.
De weekend is here & me have nuff stong weed + some Smirnoff Ice inna me fridge. Which cute gal waan fe roll wid me? Meet me uptown at de Hippodrom…
PS. yu can bring your friends too.
These criminals are just trying to divert attention from the case. Tell us whether you are guilty or not. Attend court and settle the case you criminals!!
:-?I’m just wondering if these cases will be done with by the courts. how long have cases been dragging on, beside govt has incured alot of spending on these nonesense!! Can you experdite these cases please?
#35 Spectator
From the liitle I know about him, he spent most of his career in the Zambia Police Force (now Police Service) rising to the rank of Deputy Inspector General. He served in Rwanda as head of Zambia’s peace keeping mission and retired from the police in 1997.
45 Does he have any children ?
Is mr Nkole in any way related to that firebrand of awoman Joyce Nonde
#46 I don’t know but #10 mentions a daughter of his.
#4o. Good point. These thieves never challenged the legitimacy of the task force during LPM’s tenure.Apart from being , boring cases I just don’t undertsand how Judges drag these cases when they are on pay roll.
Now the plunderers are buying time.This is absurdy.What false imprisonment? The Zambian law empowers the Police to detain on reasonable grounds for a minimum of 48 hours.
# 10 which dota are you talking about? Do you really know this man or you just want to say something? He is my inlaw and I will not talk about his personal issues coz we respect him in the family.
Professional gymics
max nkole is a good and educated man google him for more information. this man would have brought justice for all zambian’s along time ago if it wasn’t for such games that the plunders play in order to buy time thus people think that the task force is not doing there job.
pipo should not tok about things they do not understand, any human being can take legal action. And don’t call them criminals becoz they are still innocent till proven guilt by the court of law.the task force error ed in principle by doing what they did.