MOVEMENT for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) President, Nevers Mumba, has confirmed his arrest in Congo DRC but refused to call it an arrest and preferred to call it a restriction by the Congolese security wings.
The MMD has shared a video in which Dr. Mumba was speaking from a Hotel room in Lubumbashi where the Congolese security wings have confined him from leaving Congo until they conclude the investigation.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Law, an arrest means “apprehension of a person suspected of criminal activities” while the Black’s Law Dictionary defines an arrest as “a seizure or forcible restraint.”
“I have not been arrested but I have been restricted (to mean restrained) from leaving the country (DR Congo) until they (security wings in Congo) conclude preliminary investigation,” said Mumba
Dr, Mumba says the investigation against him are about trying to establish what exactly he is doing in Congo at a time when there is heightened political activities in Congo DRC. He says there is nothing that him or his team in Congo has done that contradicts any law in Congo or Zambia.
Meanwhile Dr. Mumba has asked Zambians to continue praying for him until the forcible restraint from leaving Congo comes to an end.
Congolese lawmakers, last week were involved in battles using the chair in a situation that is turning volatile by the day.
On 4th October, 2004, the then Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa announced the sacking of Dr Nevers Mumba as Republican Vice President for insubordination.
According to Mwanawasa, Mumba had breached an oath of allegiance when he failed to retract his recent allegations that the Democratic Republic of Congo was harbouring individuals who were working against the Zambian government. Mumba will be replaced by Northern Province Minister Lupando Mwape.
Dr. Mumba is reportedly been in DR Congo to cut deals with former President Joseph Kabila as a way to raise money for his campaigns ahead of 2021 elections. It is unknown what Dr Mumba is offering in return for financial support to Joseph Kabila and his party which has fallen from grace from the ruling party.
Hahahaha If that’s the case, am glad that I have never been restricted in my life, Ever.
James Zulu https://zambiareports.com/2018/09/11/nevers-mumba-convicted-abuse-authority/
Whether arrested or not arrested. Zambia economy is really downgrading
Except maybe for UNIP and FDD, most political Parties in Zambia have questionable sources of funding. This has a bearing on our democracy. Even UPND is under pressure from its financiers should Kadansa lose the next election. How can Nervers be a credible leader when he’s raising funds through dubious means?
https://zambiareports.com/2018/09/11/nevers-mumba-convicted-abuse-authority/
Ayatollah, u don’t know who funded UNIP during the 1963/4 election. If u don’t know, it doesn’t mean we all don’t know. It’s a secret Kaunda kept from his colleagues. But the UK is not Zambia. Every three decades, government in the UK declassifies some documents and interesting ones make it in books which are widely available.
In these Countries where there is autocratic rule, such a video could be a rehearsed one where they told him what to say and He is not saying it out of his own free will. What next?
@ ba Ayatollah, I totally agree with you. That’s how our resources are so cheaply mortgaged by politicians. If not the Chinese like currently, then it’s the west who forced us to privatize. Sad part is we don’t have a plan to “free” ourselves, we keep falling in the same pit over & over. No free lunch in this world. it’s Nauseating.
@Nemwine, the point is if we Zambians aren’t ready to fund our politics then we should accept to lose a percentage of our sovereignty to the financiers. I know who’s funding FDD and some of the sources of UNIP funds except that I’ve censored myself.
Awe ba lipota bam u Zambia they are really pathetic. Ekuti Shani uku:
Congolese lawmakers, last week were involved in battles using the chair in a situation that is turning volatile by the day.
If you read the story above there’s no separation between background and events that are occurring now.
“when he failed to retract his recent allegations that the Democratic Republic of Congo was harbouring individuals who were working against the Zambian government. Mumba will be replaced by Northern Province Minister Lupando Mwape.”
One of the biggest problem Zambia has is none existence of a formidable opposition. What we have is a failed Pastor and crook, a privatization thief and tribalist and a convicted criminal. PF is not best of parties that have ruled Zambia but looking at the opposition is jumping from a flying pan into the fire. How long will it take for HH to pay back his sponsored who have been giving him money since 2005?
Zambian economy will never be stable because I can’t see anyone with the ability to make things right. Maybe if we can have people like the late president mwanawasa to rule for the next 20yrs will have hope that our children will live in a better Zambia.
Basically this should be called “under hotel arrest” it’s no different from being under house arrest.
It has been revealed in DRC that Kabila stole 19billions dollars of public funds during his 18 yrs of presidency, he has destroyed the DRC economy, he has militias in the east killing innocent people while his companies are stealing minerals. Him and his immediate family were mentioned in the Panama’s financial crime papers. He has several criminal cases against him in DRC and at the international tribunal court of crime against humanity. Is this a man that is funding our democracy?
These are the type of politicians who should be forced in to retirement. This man’s political career is full of controversy. He helped kill democracy in Zambia by running the once vibrant MMD party to the ground due to his selfish reasons. How do we even tolerate such political prostitutes?
Politics matters of course. People want honest politicians and politicians want an involved electorate. Democracy needs an informed public capable of holding elites of the state and public officials accountable. The question then is who will inform the public so that it has access to the correct information? Not even the West with its mature democracies has fully found an answer. Democracy remains an imperfect undertaking but it’s the best of all alternatives that hv been tried. It can be defrauded and get someone like Trump elected but it has a self-correcting mechanism.
All Nevers has to do is comeback and read a few memorised bible verses and articles …they docile Zambian Christian people will forgive him. I have no time for this man you can never teach an old horse new tricks everywhere he goes he is doing some illegal activities. When he was about to be sentenced in the court he uses his former Veep position to plead lenience. He is so arrogant he thinks DRC is RSA where you can just go begging for money from Kabila who has blood on his hands but his money is good enough.
This man should just go back to evangelism this is where such behaviour is tolerated …I am sure his friend in Malawi made some calls to DRC to release him.
Isn’t it ironic that the leader of a party called MOVEMENT for Multi-Party Democracy, has had his “movement” restricted. Kikiki
Don’t despair ba pastor, the foreign mission there which is part of this government is negotiating your release. You now need our help. You see how life is ? After criticising this government it is only us who can help you now, not even those prayers will help you.
uncle k naimwe …mulimo limo kikikik.uyu mudala ali nama vuto ..he needs help
I hope for the best Nevers, Atleast you are not in the league of criminals like the ubomba mwi bala guys. My only problem with you is your usual pronouncement that you were Vice President therefore you have to be President, to be Vice President itself is not an achievement, it only becomes an achievement if you improved people’s lives with initiatives personally attributed to you as a person which you have not even pointed at one.
Nevers is not even arrested,please. The Congo is another country on this planet, so this is not even strange. Even just here at Mokambo and Chembe borders we go through such daily when crossing from Copperbelt to Mansa, somebody has a faded NRC, the Congolese customs will say pay K20, as if that would renew the NRC, we go through such daily and remember we have a government which is very unconcerned with the plight of its citizens.
Zambians can be persuaded to fund politics if there are reasonable checks and balances on how the money is spent. Up to now few Zambians understand the complex politics of decolonisation. They know the one-sided version we were all taught at school. But that is not all there is. Believe me, there’s more.
Nevers is a good man but he should not have changed his career. I don’t think he had a good careers master when he was a student at Hillcrest. Anyway We will pray for him.
This is evangelism mentality living off donations, tithes, tax free ….this man can sell you to the highest bidder at the drop of the hat he is no different to Great Galu they like to enjoy the good life with little effort…can you imagine this man as a minister or any influential govt position it would be Chitole/ Dr Chilufya corruption reloaded plus add ambition for the top job.
Come back home
Mumba is not a wise man. He tends to conduct himself in a manner not befitting a man of God. Stories from Canada, unexplained midnight visits to night clubs to ‘close’ them, now clandestine visits to DRC. Behaviour that leaves much-to-be desired.
The Bembas say “Uwakalema takaleka ” this has to do with a habit in English they say “Some habits die hard” Only those who are involved in clandastine issues get a brush by the law. Not the Zambian law only any country’s law. If you behave the sits at a distance. Look at my young brother, since the Mongu issue he has really behaved well. Nobody or law will touch you. As for Mumba’s issues “Kaya”? Why should the destiny of a former clergy turned into politician be this controversial? We wait and see?
Nevers Numba’s links with the Brenthurst Foundation that funds opposition parties to plant seeds of confusion in Southern Africa and his seeking for funds from East Africa and now DRC, suggests that the man is endowed with toxic DNA in his blood. Mumba’s MMD faction has failed to win a Parliamentary or Counsellor seat in recent by-elections. How on Earth will he gain votes as a Presidential candidate from a less-than-handful of members drawn from headless chicken-like followers. Mumba’s clandestine moves into East Africa and DRC tend to raise deep-rooted suspicions in the SADC region.
Mailo ati ECL ordered the arrest and HH failed to bail me out ….ba busa bonyenga
I respect Nevers for one thing. He is a true patriot. You will never catch him bad mouthing his country when he is outside it’s borders, unlike the others. Often times, he is appealing to investors. Methinks he’s a mature politician.
Semantics.
That’s how dull politicians in Zambia are. Even the UPND cadres were celebrating ati it’s not arrest but restriction pwaaaaaah
The man is not arrested at all . For us who stayed in Congo for a long time understand the difference between an arrest and a restriction of the laws of that country. So stop misieading people here that the man is arrested, NO He is not
Mwansa Kabinga @ 24, it follows that the Brenthurst Foundation must hv funded the PF whn it was in opposition if your posting is valid. Truth be told, there are not many places in Africa where the state is a true night watchman of the people. Often people are on their own. Gangs and extremist groups are forming in Africa and state machinery has no clue because intelligence gathering is just about snooping on opposition politicians. Urban growth and property development activity go on without knowing who’s building what.
He was just arrested, they should get their story straight
Steven Kambwili Manda? A relation of corrupt Chishimba and equally corrupt Chipampe Manda at ACC?
Mailo ati EcL planned it .tukofwako trying to blame the man for his own mess kaili ba opposition are good at this
Yaba.. He can’t just say the truth
In the first place, how does the whole of a former Republican Vice President secretly enter another country? I thought that there are procedures and protocols? Further, he admits himself that there is heightened political tension in the DRC. This is worrying and Dr. Mimba should know better – he will soon be crying for ECL to intervene – watch this space. This is very dangerous and Pastor Mumba’s political career may now be officially over.