Late President Levy Mwanawasa’s daughter Mirriam has vowed to fight tooth and nail to prevent Businessman Rajan Mahtani from repossessing late Mwanawasa’s Teka Farm in Ndola.
But Dr Mahtani has issued a statement threatening to sue Mirriam for libel and defamation after she revealed details of the plans to kick Mwanawasa’s family off the Farm.
Mirriam who currently lives on the Farm this week took to social media to denounce Dr Mahtani’s plans to take over the Farm.
“Two days ago 8 uniformed police officers went to our other farm and a day later two men went to the farm again seeking clarification on the farm number they were later reffered to Teka farm where I am residing and they informed me they wanted to repossess the farm that they had received instructions through their client that they should engage Bailiffs to repossess the farm. I can not keep quiet and see things fall apart,” Mirriam said.
Mirriam vowed to keep fighting to protect the Farm.
“I am only protecting the interest of the family property which belonged to my late grandmother Miriam Mokola,” she vowed.
“I am not scared of being sued. God is my Refugee. I have nothing to lose except for my soul which I owe to God”.
Mirriam recounted that her Late Father had addressed the issue of the Farms in his Will.
“Part of My late Father’s Will Reads as follows; I Give my farm at Teka Farms in Masaiti District in the Copperbelt Province to my son’s Patrick Mwanawasa and Matolo Mwanawasa to hold Jointly equally. My wife and I have developed a Farm No. 44 Palabana near aforesaid and this is registered in our Joint names to carry on the business of farming under the name of MIPACHIMA FARMS.”
Mirriam has since accused Dr Mahtani of being a disloyal friends to his late Father.
“Ichikupempula echikulya (what visits you is usually what visits you) be careful of people you call your best friend. Your best friend can be eyeing your property. Mathani who was on my father’s bedside in France now wants to inherit our family property. Lesa twafweni . God help us in Jesus Christ Name. Proverbs 23:10.”
Mirriam said she has worked very hard to develop the Farm.
“I found the farm on standstill and I have been developing the farm slowly through God’s grace. This farm belonged to our grandmother and has nothing to do with our step mother’s debt’s. Justice must prevail,” she said.
Mirriam disclosed that Dr Mahtani wants to take over the Farm allegedly because the step Mother Maureen borrowed money from Dr Mahtani.
But Dr Mahtani has threaten to sue Mirriam for publishing what he called a misleading, alarming and infuriating Facebook Post.
He said all the assets and liabilities belonging to Finance Bank were taken over by Atlas Mara following the take over of Finance Bank by African Banking Corporation.
“Dr Mahtani enjoyed both a business and personal relationship with the late Republican President of Zambia Dr Levy Patrick Mwanawasa. Prior to his presidency, Dr Mwanawasa was Dr Mahtani’s personal lawyer. Since Dr Mwanawasa’s untimely demise, Dr Mahtani has continued to enjoy a healthy relationship with the Mwanawasa Family.”
Zambia is in the hands of the Mafia. There’s a nice write-up on Msekese Farm aka Baobab Land
Who does not know that this is exactly how Rajan Mathani has survived in his business in Zambia. He has used money to lure property owners knowing they will fail to repay. He then envokes the easy task of repossession and re-sales the same properties for gain.
One can only say that the people that deal with Rajan are themselves s.t.u.p.i.d …
Mwanawasa children are good people.
Here we go again, why send bakapokola there. It might not be Mathani, it could be these thugs like those assigned to grab KCM.
Since ZP is involved, try follow closely case may lead to PF.
The Lungu family will be worse
Rajan is a born crook. He will take every piece of land and pound sterling to hell.
Every employee that worked with him knows his crafty deals, from bribing Zesco Finance Director to ZRA commissioner general, NAPSA Director and many of the likes.
How I wished Rupiah would have won elections to lock this Indian thug.
If Chink strategists in the African Dept in Shanghai write in their memoirs that they learnt how to deal with African govts and taking over their natural resources from Indian crook Rajans Mahtani I wouldn’t be surprised unlike the Chinks though this evil crook Rajan back in the day didn’t have the time to wait for you to default on his loans he would take you and simply walk in on the grieving family and collect his loot.
why even allow this criminal to continue “stealing” from indigenous Zambian. Ruphia did well to tame him back again he’s back.
This was Rajan for you.
There is a lot that we can say on this platform. He was a user. He fell out with KK, Chiluba, RB, Levy, Sata. He always wanted corrupt favors from Presidents.
He went to Malawi and tried opening Finance Bank, which did not last long. When they refused to buy his crookedness, they booted him out. In Botswana, they refused to give him a Banking License.
Mwanawasa was a lawyer. Just how did he { leave loose ends } to allow this crook haunting his family. Rajan is an evil man who hides behind God as a Christian, to claim he is a good man.
On the other hand it exposes Mwanawasa that; though he was fighting corruption – he was also corrupt.
There must be some unfinished business between Rajan & Late Mwanawasa Levy. Only time will tell and expose the whole truth.The sad thing is Levy is not here to speak for himself. So we don’t know the whole truth.
Its high time Zambians stopped this Indian thief. He has stolen a lot from families of Late Zambian politicians. He has no shame in grabbing property. Mariam Young Girl never give up. Let Mahtani GO back to India and get a farm there no Zambia.
Blah blah blah. Lungi gave 10000 hectares of land to investors he brought. Every president was in his pockets so is Edgar Lungu, stop yapping . Nothing is going to change. Maureen would not support her step daughter because the way she grabbed Levy and Maharani helped her to allow Late Mwanawasa and Barkat Ali, a non Zambian to be single handedly operate MMD bank account at Finance Bank. Maharani was courier of Maureen
Why are police involved in this case? Isn’t this a civil matter?
The right person to comment on this issue is the one who borrowed
Money on this farm.If anyone resides on this farm does not have
Any right on this farm. In whose name is teak farm?very simple.
Restingn please
If she has developed the farm and is doing well then why are they failing to meet their debt obligations? Do you see now why I say marry umusungu because had mwanwasa being clever and got himself a self sufficient clever white woman like my wife then there wouldn’t be any problems. White women add to assets and not incur debts. Wake up bane x
You are a dependent.. while Mwanawasha was independent
The article was not investigated properly and lacks clarity in details and is therefore a bit confusing. We wish the daughter wins over this situation, where foreign entities are snatching Zambian assets and this should be of concern to the govt and the financial monitoring body in Zambia should investigate these type of acquisitions. Unfortunately, Zambians are falling for easy debt from foreign banks/lenders. The principle that citizens with bad credit ratings should not be allowed to borrow should be pursued by the financial monitoring bodies. These foreign bodies are devious and are prying on undisciplined people conning them out of their homes. This Atlas Mara following the taking over financial services is headed by Bankers disciplined for Banking irregularities in the wake of…
…….in the wake of the credit crunch. This Bob Diamond is hardly a stand up fellow, having been disciplined for Barclays Bank irregularities by financial services. Another British colonial story, they will never stop their devious grabbing of our resources. As for Madam Maureen, she has been criticised for taking AIDS donor funds before and I hope this is not linked to her character. Children of deceased parents are being robbed of their birth right. I hope LT will do some good investigative journalism and republish with the real story behind this matter.
Shame on the Zambian govt for these type of arrangements they get into with foreigners. The KCM back story of how Mwanawasa set us up is reflecting on him now in another matter.
Atlas Mara has to collect billions from Maharani group companies, if it does not collect bank is gone.
Lusaka times you keep blocking me but I keep coming back. Am your Jesus. I will keep rising till you get tired. Don’t push me to my limit because I can shut this website down with a lethal virus. Behave yourselves if you want your website to continue
This is malicious,. LT, get Interpol on this.
What malicious. My son has a a masters in advanced programming and also I have done programming myself . This website is very easy to destroy because it uses a very basic platform. All am saying is that try blocking me once more if you don’t want to every blog again
iwe naiwe ka neez ifyakusabaila sabaila ala!
You go america to clean streets. You will think it’s impossible to hack simple website
This man owns the entire Zambia
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ZAMBIANS OWNING PROPERTY IN INDIA BUT HERE IS MAHTANI GRABBING THIS AND OTHER PROPERTIES (LIKE ZAMBEZI PORTLAND CEMENT).
ALL BECAUSE WE ARE TOO NICE FOR OUR OWN GOOD.
GO BACK HOME MAHTANI (TO INDIA IN CASE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN)
Animal fam
Stop racial argument. If Mwanawasa never repaid loans or debt associated with Teka farm, someone within the family has to pay. The owners of the money are in business. They need their money back. Just pay back or lose collateral. It is that simple. Is the argument that the creditors should lose their investment? Let us try to be objective for once. Why talk about India, foreigners etc?
These are the same Indians aiding and abetting the takeover of Zambia by other Indians…..the work only with Indians , but from Indians, network with Indians only to make money from Zambia
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‘Icikupempula ecikulya’ (what visits you visits you or is it eats you?)…what a hell of direct translation! Kikiki…
We pray that the best Legal brains in Government – and the Attorney General in particular, must swiftly apply their legal prowess to rescue the Mwanawasa’s Family from the ruthless jaws of the Gupta-breed in the name of Mahtani. This business man operated in the same way as the Guptas in South Africa.
Mahtani is a member of the infamous CLIQUE that corruptly engineered State Capture in Zambia. Mahtani, Mmembe, Chona, Mutembo Nchito etc captured Levy Mwanawasa’s Presidency to torture President Chiluba and planted their personnel to run State House under Sata’s regime. At that stage Mahtanai poked his nose on several industries and businesses in Zambia. Where is the Women NGO? GRZ must help Mirriam.
I don’t know all the details but l will be praying for you and the family during this challenging moment
No loyalty amongst thieves!