THE Lusaka High Court has entered a judgment in default in a case in which President Rupiah Banda’s son, James had sued former Defence minister George Mpombo for libel over his allegations that James was involved in the procurement of arms worth US$100 million from South Africa.
High Court deputy registrar Egipiso Mwansa ordered that Mr Banda recovers against Mr Mpombo his claims as prayed in his statement of claim upon assessment of damages.
This was after Mr Mpombo failed to enter appearance before the court and failed to deliver a defence against the claim.
“Upon the defendant not having entered appearance and not having delivered a defence herein, it is this day adjudged that judgment be entered for the plaintiff.
“And that the plaintiff recovers against the defendant his claims as prayed in the statement of claim upon assessment of damages herein,” reads the judgment.
In his statement of claim, Mr Banda was claiming damages for libel contained in The Post edition of April 19, 2011 where Mr Mpombo claimed that he had left the Government because he did not agree with President Banda’s decision to award an arms supply deal to James Banda’s allies based in South Africa.
Mr Banda contended that Mr Mpombo’s allegations had injured his credibility and reputation and brought him into public scandal, ridicule, odium and contempt.
He was also seeking an injunction to restrain Mr Mpombo, his servants or agents from publishing the said words or other similar words and damages, or footing of aggravated or exemplary damages and any other relief the court may deem fit.
[Times of Zambia]
Yaluka!!
cipuba
arrest mpombo..the dimwit..hahaha
A default judgment which can be set-aside tomorrow as long as you can show that you have a Defence on the merit and reasonable grounds fro delay in filing, making this a headline is mere politics.
Mpombo ni mpombo
Mpombo ni Mpombo sana!
Mwadya mweka Banda and Sons…the country called zambia….
Sadly PF is suffering a serious brain deficiency. Again this is evidence that there is drought in the house from President Sata, Kabimba, M’membe to George Mpombo suffering chronic impote and katata over consumption one factor underlying alcohol-induced brain damage.Not amused with their hollow hallucinations. Here they are to lose money fund-raised from their Taliban terrorism friends and Homosexual partners in Gay societies. Bravo James for your cool and respect for our independent justice system.
Ba Mpombo, I believed you when you made all those allegations. Iam very disappointed that you misled us all because of your bitterness against RB. Mukabe ndoshi nombalile if tamulapanda yet. Let go this bitterness will kill you.
Yamunyokola njala. Failing even to appear before the courts.
hahahahahahaha
This is wat we have been saying all along…. we can not let our mother Zambia go into the hands of call boyz…
James thanks and justice has indeed been delivered…. the same will happen to Mmambe and is gang of thieves.., Nchito brothers etc.
ndipo ya mu nyokola cha ipa soti
PF adoption protests rumbles on
PROTESTS by Patriotic Front (PF) members on the Copperbelt have continued with those in Lufwanyama rejecting their leader Michael Sata’s preferred candidate, 23-year-old illiterate Christopher Kalenge who they described as immature and incapable of writing or reading Grade 6 school drop-out.
In Kawambwa, PF members are also not happy with the Parliamentary candidate Mr Sata has allegedly imposed on them, saying he was not the preferred candidate by the grassroots members.
Imposed? What was the two days debate all about?
The Lufwanyama PF district executive led by secretary, Prince Shimukunami said in Kitwe yesterday that the grassroots members were opposed to the adoption of Mr Kalenge.
Mr Shimukunami said PF in the district was disappointed with the party leaders for going against the recommendation of Rodgers Chimena, and alleged that there was no democracy in the party.
“The party can’t impose somebody (Mr Kalenge) who has no political track record. He is only 23 years old, what can he do for the people in the constituency?” Mr Shimukunami said.
He accused the PF provincial executive of being corrupt by adopting Mr Kalenge who was not recommended.
Mr Shimukunami said 16 councillors from the 16 wards had since withdrawn from contesting in this year’s elections because of the alleged corrupt tendencies in the opposition party.
He said when the district executive complained to former Works and Supply minister Mike Mulongoti, who was coordinating the PF adoption process in Lufwanyama, the former minister only advised them not to leak the matter to the media because he did not want the central committee to know about it.
He said people had lost interest in the PF because of the alleged lack of respect for democracy.
Yaba! Mpombo now also doing a disappearing act like his magician lawyer! Isn’t his lawyer the well respected non other than Winter Kabimba?#4 Sometimes it is better to just accept the truth instead of daydreaming or is hallucinating just like it would be good for you to accept that SATA IS GOING TO LOSE FOR THE FOURTH TIME THIS YEAR!
Kwasala Managani and Mulongoti to be left out in the cold by the Post PF vuvuzela when trouble comes. Mmembe claims he is a lawyer but wont be there to represent you. Learn a lesson from Mpombo or is he Mupombo? Be careful as you are enticed by Mmembe, uzadya beans one day.
Mr Shimukunami also said PF members in Lufwanyama had vowed not to vote for the opposition party leaders because they lacked respect for local leadership.
He said PF had lost its political clout on the Copperbelt because of the manner in which the adoption process had been handled, adding that Mr Sata should forget about being voted for.
MAlabishi!
mpompo ni 2v zoona
Talking without thinking….now he has no evidence to back-up his allegations and cant even go to court. Arrest this idio’t
Hehehehe! Watch out! Panji, Mpombo, Chitala, Mulongoti have lost coverage from the post as they are now irrelevant in the equation. All will end like mpombo who has been left alone battling with cases in the courts of law.
I thought mpombo said, he was rolling up his sleeves to face James but alas am surprised he has lost the case!!! bane na tuleikalafye nokulya.
Grow up zambians and debate maturely, reading comments on this blog pricks my heart, do we have people who are there to analyse issues like the likes of senior citizen, i miss him a lot. Your comments of individual hatred and insults shows that there is proper education you got from your schools. One wonders if you just ended in grade seven.
mpombo uli cipuba idi.ot.
Mpombo is a political houndalum. Blogers, Mmembe can not represent Mpombo beacse Mmembe and Winter are incompetent Lawyers. Mmembe does not know how to draw a summon and in fact he has never won a single case because he has no clinets. Kabimba too has never won a single case. Go and read all zambian law reports, you will never see the name of Winter Kabimab presenting a person. These are dull lawyer. Blogers, what kind of lawyer does not know were to take the case? 2011 will be the worst year for PF. Mark my words. 2011 is the first time PF cadres have demonstrated against the MPs adopted by the party. It has never hapened before in the history of PF.
i meant no proper
It’s very worrying when elders of the nation display a deep lack of wisdom in their words and say this that are neither here nor there. Atleast if he ooffered an argument in court we would give him the benefit of doubt. I’d always thought he could have claimed the evidence has been removed when that’s the office he came from. He could have copied the papers befre quiting. Now he’s running like a reall mpombo in the bush. Is this the calibre of leaders PF will offer our great nation kwena? PEOPLE VOTE WISELY.
Ehe nokulusa eko kwaba bane. Iam I the first loser of a case in Zambia. General naena alilushilepo kuli MCS. Flabbergasted!
Mpombo is on the run. I regret the day I announced my candidature for VP in MMD. Lufwanyama is cracking. Where shall we run to when RB wins again.
I advised the cadres not to report to the press, but to no avail. We are caught pants down. Sata mislead me. Thats why I used to denounce him when I was in GRZ.
What is he carrying on his chin? A chicken? Oh, sorry, kansi ni vindevu. U shud shave u numbskull
Mpombo used to be in a wrong camp but has finally got to the camp where he belongs by default, the PF where thinking is a taboo!!
Source of those stories…RBish tabloids owned by MWADYA MWEKA DADY(MMD)……..
hahaha No. 30
Do not shoot the messenger…… be prepared the mother of all defeats is coming. Am only sad that the guy never came to court i want to listen to the circus of english words.
Mmemba, Mulongoti, Chitala etc…. we are coming we have got you in our cross hairs. You thought you would play a fast one on the Zambian people.
Mpombo said he was rolling up his sleeves to meet James in court so why the heck didn’t he show up and why didn’t he enter a defence? Is it that maybe he went to a wrong court or maybe realised he should have put his brain in gear before opening his mouth? I hope he stays in that little hole he has dug himself in and spare us his bombastic words.
ba dora, muhabi and kawimbe were monked by the monks at the campus they failed to explain to the monks their constitution .muhabi icisungu ukupwa mukanwa.ba candidate ba munali bena bakutumenefye .apakwambila balifilwa
Why make claims when you are not ready to defend them.Get a shave man
#27,MULONGOTI, you’re very correct, Mpombo used to call you ‘POLITICAL MOSQUITO’ on one of the community radio stations. You only became good friends when he convinced you that you can have free media coverage if only you say bad things about RB.
FRIVOLOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mpombo is an intellectual according to the pOst and PF Cadres,
# 37 Yeah thats right. You can actually be adviser there ………..
#36 thats an insult, PF will throw bricks at you …………..
Lets learn to have morals and principles.Mpombo would have avoided putting himself in this mess if only he had thought as a man.The Post used him to sell their paper without the Duicker realizing that he was being treated more or less the way toilet tissue is used.They have discarded him at the time he needs them most.Let the remaining guys come to their senses before they face the same dilemma as this animal-MPOMBO.The same will happen to the Mulongotis,Chitalas etc.Anyway,Chitala would not mind since he would merely change his name.
You guys this is true, these Banda sons are crooks. They are involved in so many deals, there is no smoke without fire. He was on the delegation to South Africa. I he knows a lot , he needs a good Lawyer to defend him. Knowing these Presidents sons, they are dubious in there dealings. Espeicially James,with these girl friends of his. Listen to Mpombo. not to these thugs. Of course their father has money to pay for lawyers.
Prove it. The courts are there. We do not want to hear stories any more.
No 41
Do not live in dream land. If James takes you to court like Mpombo are you going to show the court that he his a crook? Don not open your mouth just because you heard from Kamwala or Kabwata that James is a crook..
This is the problem with you Zambians you talk to much without substance thats why you are failing to appear in court
No. 42
Dont think u kow much, By not appearing in court doesnt mean you have no evidence or you have lost the case, u dont kno the reason just wait. Mind u mpombo was the boss in that ministry, he cant just talk from without. Dont show your ignorance, i even doubt if you are in australia…
It seems court judgements are all going in one direction these days. Sad…
problem yaba Mpombo he thinks he can just reveal things without consiquences…
No 43
Time will tell… i promise you .. your man will either be bankrupt after paying James or seating in a jail. Hope you have room for him in your DRC house. He may have been the boss at the ministry but he his a dumm F.O.O.L for your information this his bio
George MpomboPolitical Party: MMDConstituency: KafulafutaDate of Birth: January 1, 1954Marital Status: MarriedEducational Qualifications: Grade 12, Diploma in Journalism, Dip. Human Resource Management, Dip. purchasingProfession: Buyer/human resource practitionerHistory of Election to Parliament:1st election: 1988, 2001, 2006
Mpompo is as good as his name ‘impombo’. I sometimes wonder how such calibre finds itself in powerful positions. Anyway, Mpombo is finnished and I am sure his dictionary is now torn.
#43 The man has been rolling his sleeves in preparedness for this case for months and you see nothing odd with him not turning up to the court case on which his personal reputation rested? In addition, if Mpombo was able to prove his allegations, I doubt he would have missed the opportunity to deal a major blow to RB’s re-election bid especially if you take into account the timing of the hearing.
#47 I have been reliably informed that the bearded duiker has had to use his dictionary as fuel as he could not afford amalasha.
‘allegations had injured his credibility and reputation and brought him into public scandal, ridicule, odium and contempt.’ With due respect to the legal profession and any other professions and academical qualification of which I have plenty of, please stop using all these rotten words to confuse people and for god’s sake start serving them. We have head all this sweet language from Chiluba who turned out to be a thief. These guys are thieves including Mpombo himself. Mangani was also saying he knows a lot about Dora and Daka, why did he not say when he was in govt? I think Zambians should for the first time take control; change the govt and change the next one if it doesn’t perform. Mpombo shut up, Dora shut, Daka shut up, Mangani shut up and jet the people speak for a chenge!
# 40 I just love the comment of Chitala changing his name again. Mpompo is a bitter man, you can not make sure a statement on arms and fail to defend yourself, this is foolness in the highest order. I do not know why some people think the likes of Mpompo are solutions to problems zambia is facing.
Sorry, Let the people speak for a change. These guys are sickening! Who the hell is James and what govt office does he hold. Why should and govt minister (or former) and a President’s son be mentioned in the same breath? Mushota give us a puke bucket love. I expect Zambia to be much better than England which doesn’t have the natural resource that we have. In spite of the riots, their service industry will sort out the mess in no time while chief Mpenzeni and Puta are begging Rupiah to build or grade a road they promised years ago for them to get the people’s votes. What’s wrong with us?
George Antelope, where’s Fred Mmembe when you need him? He sold tons of papers using you on his front page and you foolishly fell for it. Your only hope is to pray hard that Sata wins otherwise if the big man RB wins, you’ll need adult diapers to contain the diarrhea! Already FBZ have called on their 600Mio Kwacha debt and now James B will be milking you of further millions for defamation of character. I hope this serves as a powerful lesson for all clowns who enjoy being on the front cover of The Post; Mmembe is a shrewd chap with a narrow self serving agenda and you’ll be left to fend for yourself.
# 50, The government is the innocent mirror of a nation. The quality of government, and its leaders, is simply a reflection of the COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS of all the people. If the collective consciousness is disintegrated and negative, then problems and corruption will be an unavoidable phenomena of government.
And if the government, the economy and society in general are starting to bring you down, then you may be feeling the sentiment of the “collective consciousness.” This term, refers to the shared beliefs and moral attitudes that operate as a unifying force within society and right now that unifying force is at its best.
Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see. This is what Post does to people, it publishes pure slander and (ab)uses its past and long lost legacy to cheat the gullible who take it as gospel truth. When I buy and read the Post I am mindful that Mmembe has an agenda for his business interests and not taht of the people of Zambia, the Post no longer stands for the truth. In fact I buy it just to be alert on what their schemes are. Otherwise it is the most ridiculous paper one can think of.
# 50 Think about it, what do you hear most of the time when you watch the news or read the newspapers? Overwhelming negativity. When millions of people absorb the toxic messages offered on a daily basis through media, movies and other forms of communication, an immense mass of bad feelings and emotions blankets the country.
If, on the other hand, collective consciousness is positive, integrated, and coherent, then the government will not be influenced by any negativity.
If the people of any country wish to be protected from corruption in government, then they must create an integrated collective consciousness. Positivity and harmony should be so strong and dense in national consciousness that negative influences cannot penetrate it.
Mpombo is a cheat. Chain him for being the most foolish defence minister we have had so far. This guy is a threat to national security.
#54 and 56 Kims I understand the theories you are trying to relate and I agree with them but I still think that we Zambians need to take control by assessing situations and make the point that leaders need to serve us. I know of a lot of positives back home which not even the Post Newspaper can influence me negatively about. There are however a lot of short comings that need to be addressed by both govt and opposition. We people need to demand to be served, we have the power to do this. The tendency of just buying people around election time, defections, sham adoptions of candidates with certain people positioning themselves to perpetually be in all govt etc. needs to be guarded against. It breeds mediocrity. There are more issues.
BA LT, RB has successufully filled in his nomination, how can ur not carrying this story. Check with ba watchdog
Does anyone have any information as to whether or not Mr. Mpombo has been nominated to stand anywhere?
Please kindly get me out of my misery.
Imwe what is Odium, is a chemical? At least I know ridicule and inuendo.
He shouldn’t have been yapping anyhow and the fact that he failed to show up to court shows that he was lying about the alleged arms deal. He is now going to be paying through the nose.
Mpombo is in trouble. Very soon he will start selling charcoal again on his old byscle.
POST have a moral obligation to help pay up because they are responsible for getting him excited and the subsequent spewing of lies to grab headlines. Mpombo sue the POST to share liabilities….
Has this impala even paid Findlay his ka K10M?I feel pity for his wife.
This corward, how does he involve himself in a vendata that he can not resolve.
Mpombo has not achieved anything after all, but pain for himself and his family. Mpombo is such a disgrace, look at the suit he is wearing…menshi-menshi…..bust shows what a sucker of a former defence minister he is. I am sure his children are so embarassed.