Sunday, October 6, 2024

NCP files criminal complaint against UK-based Zambian with info about a coup

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The New Congress Party has reported the criminal conduct of Barbara Chama Mumba, a Zambian Citizen based in the United Kingdom who claims to have communicated information about a planned coup by the Zambian military and leaders from the PF regime.

NCP President Peter Chanda who was accompanied by a smaller crowd of women and youths, said the remarks by Ms Musamba Chama have the potential to cause a breach of peace and endanger the country’s security especially that has cast a serious distrust on the standing of our country’s Defence Forces.

Around March 1 to April, 4, 2022, Ms. Barbara Chama Mumba, recorded and circulated a video in which she alleges that some members of Zambia’s Defence Force are allegedly working with former President Edgar Lungu and Lusaka businessman Valden Findlay to overthrow a legitimately elected government, remarks which are fictitious.

In q filed complaint, Mr Chanda said the utterances by a Ms Musamba Mumba constitute criminal libel against former President Lungu, Mr. Findlay and the institutions of our government.

“By claiming that she has reported such information directly to Republican President, Mr Hakainde Hichilema, Ms Musamba Mumba is working with others in an orchestrated plot to commence arbitrary arrest and detention of persons based on information she claims to be passing to the President Hichilema,” he said.

The NCP has stated that the remarks by Ms Musamba Mumba are likely to raise discontent or disaffection among the people of Zambia and further incite violence against the named persons and the Defence Forces.

He further noted that the behavior by Ms Musamba Chama is equivalent to cyber bullying contrary to Section 71 of the Cyber Crimes Act No. 2 of 2021 and are likely to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between people of different political factions in Zambia.

Meanwhile, the NCP has also requested the British Home Office on the status of Ms. Musamba Mumba who is widely viewed as an illegal immigrant who entered the UK on a paper visa which expired after she overstayed in the UK.

In a letter submitted to the British High Commission, Mr Chanda said the UK must prevent delinquents like Ms. Musamba Mumba from continuing to use the British jurisdiction as a safe haven to commit crimes and cyber bullying of our citizens.

19 COMMENTS

  1. I was very displeased with Lungu but I dont think he is the kind of guy to conduct a coup. He is a peaceful dumb guy despite his corruption. This is the price we have to pay for the freedom of expression the web has brought to the world. You can say all kinds of rubbish and it will reach the entire world in a jiffy.
    Donald Trump discovered that and twitter became his toilet with a big fan to hit the whole world. We are a peaceful nation one of Africa’s most peaceful and even if we arent happy with HH we will allow him to do his term. We need to maintain our wonderful record as the only African country to have PEACEFULLY changed government four times. Peacefully we will proceed. Viva democracy! Viva Zambia! Viva HH!. Abash Mumba Chama!

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  2. But why should the NCP be the one to defend the accused? Does the NCP have an a better intelligence wing?

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  3. This is not good for the country. We have a system just like soccer… you score more you win the game. You are alarming the nation just to show also exist.

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  4. Is the lady in question trying to invite persecution to herself so that she can claim asylum in the UK? I hope that the Home Office puts her on the next available flight to Zambia.

  5. This appears to be fake news – otherwise, the police would have been the first ones to expose stuff.

    #plant a tree now please!

  6. What do you expect from f00Iish diasporans like spaka and the rest. These f00Is are suffering abroad and are slaves there so to deal with the pain of racism they start trying to create hate and animosity in zambia with their lies. The upnd is working with the same f00lish diasporans to cook up lies against the only father of the nation ECL. Remember the only bally or father of nation after ba ruphia died is ECL whether you like it or not. Not hh! Fuseke!

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  7. If the army has been infiltrated is this not a sign of how weak and incompetent the upnd government is?

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  8. So Tayali has been arrested and detained. Let’s see if police will be impartial. Musamba is told what to do and say by the powers that be. Now I think the new Dawn is vindictive. Going after ECL but this will be terrible mistake

  9. So Tayali has been arrested and detained. Let’s see if police will be impartial. Musamba is told what to do and say by the powers that be. Now I think the new Dawn is vindictive. Going after ECL but this will be terrible mistake.

  10. This is a well planned fake line by PF operatives to cast them as victims………..

    The narrative going forward they hope will be the PF that are being investigated for corruption can point at victimisation and paranoia from the UPND GRZ……..

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  11. Social media and attention seeking has now become a serious cancer….every morooon now wants to be in the news…it’s so disgusting…thank God I spend most of my time driving UBER….looks like this woman is Spaka or Tarino Orange’s girlfriend

  12. The lady is playing dangerously. She is trying to create discontent between political leaders and the military. She must be put on next flight back to respond to what she knows

  13. It is no coincidence that lusambo was on the news the other day…………

    Praising lungu for building houses and looking after the armed forces of zambia very well………….

    Sowing discontent and mistrust is well known intelligence operation. That is why all points to well planned move by former Goverment operatives………..

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  14. Mumbi Phiri, a woman who has challenges killing a mosquito is behind bar charged with murder. Now they want to find excuse for caging more people. Shame

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  15. looks like a sign of failure to govern to me. Excuses after excuses. People will say or others claim that they said many things in this age of fake and alternative news. If government is going to track down every gy

    Jim and Jack that is said to have said something then when will they work? As it is ACC and DEC seem to be operating based on this philosophy and have been making arrests that don’t stick for lack of evidence. A waste of public resources. In 7 months life in Zambia has become almost unbearable and leaders are now afraid of their own shadows.

  16. Reported to which police? UPND wont tolerate that nonsense! Never! Infact as we talking now the GRZ is busy searching people for weapons suspected to be used for the Coup and they are also looking for master minders that Tayali claimed to have been talking to. So even if PF morons tried their best to report but the question is,which police in Zambia will entertain such hallucinations, cos the Zambian is actually hunting these same PF cadres down,either for the suspected or for theft when they were in power.

  17. This is fake news and you have the whole newspapaer reporting fake news, Zambia police arrested Tayali after hearing and seeing the video from this woman. SO how can the police go behind her again and accept a complaint from a PF cadre,the same people that they are pursuing? You see, donsnt make no sense. PF cadres are being hunted now left right and center and so there is no way that they can be siding with the very criminals that they are hunting in order to prosecute the person that showed them were these criminals were hiding. Now way!

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