MMD National Secretary Reverend Reuben Sambo has expressed anger at the attempt by a Felix Mutati cadre named Phiri, to shoot MMD National Treasurer Mrs. Elizabeth Chitika- Molobeka, in a botched and clumsy daylight attempt to forcibly retrieve the party vehicle she was driving, which is part of a large contingent of party vehicles which were rightfully returned to the MMD by the police late last year after having been unlawfully confiscated by the PF soon after the 2011 General Elections.
The incident happened late Friday afternoon, 30th September, 2016 when Mrs Molobeka was driving to her home in Jesmondine and a vehicle driven by Phiri suddenly overtook her and blocked her, forcing her to squeeze through a narrow space to flee at breakneck speed towards Kaunda Square police station when she quickly realized she was being chased by armed robbers wanting to steal her vehicle.
She heard shouts of ‘shoot her! shoot her!’ from someone in the car with his head outside in the car driven by Phiri.
In the fast car chase that ensued, Mrs Chitika-Molobeka hit into a light truck from behind which she failed to avoid thus causing the damage to the front of her vehicle pictured above. A taxi driver who witnessed the entire incident, quickly offered to take her, the truck driver and his colleague along with Phiri to Bennie Mwiinga police station in PHI. On the way there, Phiri suddenly turned into another road and sped off in an attempt to escape but the taxi driver gave chase and forced him to follow them the police station and during questioning, confessed to having a gun and mounting a road block to capture Chitika-Molobeka in a effort to grab the vehicle.
The police informed Phiri that mounting a road block by any unauthorised person is a serious traffic offence for which he would be charged. He would also be charged with dangerous driving likely to endanger other road users. At this point a large group of unruly and noisy cadres arrived and caused tremendous commotion which forced the police officers to ask Mrs Chitika to leave and return on Monday to formally lodge a statement on the incident.
The Mutati faction has been locked in a vicious and bitter party leadership struggle with MMD President Dr. Nevers Mumba since last year as the 2016 General Elections approached. The challenges between Mutati and Dr. Mumba first started in 2012 when Dr. Mumba came from outside and won the MMD presidency by landslide victory against Felix Mutati during the MMD Convention of 2012. Felix Mutati was eventually expelled from the MMD for gross misconduct. He challenged his expulsion in the Lusaka High Court, but the court upheld his expulsion early this year and as far as the MMD is concerned he remains expelled from the MMD.
The Supreme Court recently quashed the Lusaka High Court ruling that the Mutati faction used to justify holding the illegal party convention in Kabwe which installed Mutati as president of the MMD unopposed. The Court has ordered the matter back to the lower court for proper determination. The matter is yet to be heard.
The issue of party vehicles has been at the centre of bitter wrangles in which the Mutati faction led by suspended former Party Spokesperson Raphael Nakacinda have gone on a frenzied nation-wide rampage forcibly grabbing party vehicles from MMD provincial structures.
In October last year former MMD Party Spokesperson Muhabi Lungu was charged with stealing such a vehicle after he was expelled from the party. After the party opened a docket for the stolen vehicle, Mr. Lungu quietly returned the vehicle to Woodlands police station which was eventually returned to the party and the matter dropped. This same vehicle was recently forcibly grabbed from a senior MMD official in a daring daylight robbery in Kabulonga.
The Mutati faction led by suspended Nakacinda purportedly justify the grabbing of these party vehicles allegedly on instructions from former President Rupiah Banda as they say were bought while he was President of MMD. Several vehicles have so far been grabbed and their whereabouts unknown.
MMD Party National Secretary Reverend Reuben Sambo has said the behaviour of the Mutati faction is part of the wider lawless culture obtaining under the current regime. He confirmed that the party is preparing to sue cadre Phiri for endangering Mrs Molobeka’s life.
Fighting over a car in this day and age is an indicator of poverty
It doesn’t matter how you spin the wheel, Mumba is the legally elected MMD President.
On what grounds, was MUtati elected to start with?
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This story for me sounds like an incompetent driver who has had an accident and is finding a way out of expressing themselves by using a line that he believes people will believe her.
Sambo naively has believed feculent coming out of her
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Ati sangwapo time in MMD i can see
Reminds me of Mwaliteta vs Kaizer, the victim ended up in jail.
But this is worse because it involves a woman.
Ba Mushota, which rock have you been hiding under? MMD called a convention at which Mutati was elected president. This was after Nevers Mumba tried to delay the convention knowing that he was on his way out.
So Mushota their is a free lesson of MMD politics. But I think you are a UPND cadre and so will refuse because confusion in MMD is to the advantage of UPND
Is this the same woman whose child damaged a GRZ vehicle at manda hill a few years ago under the influence of
How could she the shouts of “shoot her ” with all the noise around? All the same such things belong to the stone age.
@Mbanje khakis:
Ar.sewhore!! Are you on drugs or what? Do you mean you cant hear anything when driving? Mother fu.cker – say something sensible!
MMD is late …it is dead! Property grabbing taking place now
but why run away with something which is not yours
Mulobeka should know that there are cheaper vehicles in Japan that she can buy and have as personal property. NOT MMD vehicle shame
MMD doesn’t exist!!!! Spare yourselves
Chilyata you are the mother f–ucker because that is what you do with your mother and your grandmother everyday and put your shi-t in their old pussies and ar-ses. We are not like you. Do not think that you are the only one with choice words when to comes to insults. We are sick and tired of you and your insults moron. There I have also insulted you. After reading my comment I know you will be fuming with smoke coming out of your ears and your rear end. Go and hang yourself or take the most deadly poison and crawl back in the hole you come from and die there.
Iyoo mulibansele ba fyatile.
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@chilyata 3.1 please don’t include me in your circle of insults. Don’t vent your anger on people who just want to interact here.
This is not first time Nakacinda has been implicated in dubious issues concerning motor vehicles. He was incarcerated at Chimbokaila on charges of dribboling and swindling a retired widow of her pension pretending to order a car for her from Japan. The money disappeared and car never delivered.
The law is the law. Those supporting lawlessness are destroying this country. Are you Zambians or do you have problems with your upbringing. You can’t insult yourselves like that on social media. We would like to respect you and everybody else.
This is an extract from the film “who’s the true MMD LEADER?”
The lot should be arrested including the Madame using cars from other factions! What has Zambia come to. People going out to enforce their Rights on their own command!
She did well to bash it.