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Tales Of The Real Kind (MUST READ STORY)
By Correspondent.
If you are a woman imagine your husband has just been expelled from the ruling party, coming with it the loss of a ministerial position in government and the parliamentary seat. Well, this happened to one humble lady 12 years ago.
The husband, a founding member of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, MMD, and a prominent figure for that matter was on July 7, 2000 expelled from the party he helped create. The key person or people behind his expulsion were probably too afraid of the man’s capabilities and wanted him out to enhance their political chances – whatever they were!
In the days that followed quite a number of interesting things started to unfold right before the eyes of this otherwise reserved lady.
One evening, while out doing some shopping at Rendezvous supermarket in Lusaka’s Longarces, she bumped into one serving cabinet minister then whom she greeted in the car park.
But strangely, as this lady walked towards the entrance of the shop, she noticed that the said cabinet minister was looking at the vehicle a Nissan patrol she had just parked kind of examining it.
However, without giving it a second thought she proceeded to quickly get the items she wanted from the supermarket and returned home.
All appeared normal for the lady the following day apart from having to come to terms with the grim reality of her husband’s expulsion from the ruling party at the time.
She left her home in the company of her elder sister and another person for an errand in the central business district, town as it is commonly referred to by many.
Driving along Great East Road she came upon a road block manned by traffic officers from the Zambia Police Service just after Arcades shopping mall just at the Presidential entrance of the Lusaka Showgrounds.
Indeed everything appeared normal and she had no reason to worry as she knew that the vehicle she was in control of, a Nissan patrol, was in tip-top condition.
She was up for a rude shock. After slowing down and coming to a complete stop she was surprised that the officers ordered her to park on the side. At this point she was informed that she would have to accompany the police officers to Lusaka Central Police Station.
When she asked why, she was told the explanation would be given at the police station. As a law abiding citizen she obliged but surprisingly she noticed that traffic was flowing normally as the roadblock had ceased. So was the roadblock set up specifically for her, was she being trailed perhaps minute by minute?
Indeed the road block had been disbanded with the five or so police officers that had been manning it jumping into the two police vans that were on the scene. “My vehicle was in between the two police van as we drove to Lusaka Central Police”, she explained in a rather cool manner as she tried to re-live the events of that morning. “But when we got to the police station they started moving us from office to office until my elder sister got upset demanding to know what crime we had committed”, she narrated.
It was at this point she said that one police officer took them to a senior police officer who indicated that the matter was actually beyond the police. As it turned out to be the senior police officer told the lady that it appeared it was a National Assembly (Parliament) matter.
The senior police officer further informed her that the police had received instructions from a certain cabinet minister that the Nissan Patrol the lady was driving be impounded as her husband who was no longer a member of parliament was owing the National Assembly K5 million for a loan obtained to purchase it. Strange isn’t it? Am not too sure if that is the way parliament pursues debts owed to it.
It was at this stage that the senior police officer ordered the officers who had taken the lady to the police station to take her to parliament were it was embarrassingly discovered that the National Assembly had no knowledge of what was going on more so that not even any paper work had been set in motion to start recovering the K5 million owed by the lady’s husband.
The police officers hurriedly left parliament but one thing was crystal clear, they had been used by the said cabinet minister to humiliate and embarrass the lady causing her, her elder sister and the other passenger serious emotional stress.
But perhaps more than anything else, the said cabinet minister must have been very happy that his former collegue in the ruling party and cabinet had begun to feel the heat.
However, at this stage the lady’s husband had rapidly adjusted more so that he always had something to fall back on – his business empire matching no other indigenous Zambian at the time. He immediately settled the K5 million over the Nissan Patrol and whatever else he owed the National Assembly without waiting for a formal notification as is usually the case.
What has up to this day remained in the lady’s mind is a vivid picture of the said cabinet minister in the car park outside Rendezvous supermarket in Longarces looking, in a rather inspecting manner, at the Nissan Patrol.
It dawned to her that the man was simply taking down the registration details of the vehicle to pass on to the police and whoever else he saw fit to achieve whatever motives.
It may not be far-fetched to assume that the said cabinet minister had something up his sleeve against the lady’s husband and it seems it will never end as up to this day the persecution has continued and at an elevated level.
Today this woman is before the Lusaka magistrates court for allegedly issuing a cheque on an insufficiently funded account having first been questioned or is it interrogated, warn and cautioned and charged by the Drug Enforcement Commission , DEC, for what was termed money laundering, conspiracy and issuing a cheque on an insufficiently funded account.
On May 23, 2012 she was charged and appeared in court on May 30, 2012 together with another gentleman working for one of the companies operated by her husband.
The lady’s husband has been a very successful businessman from the late sixties with businesses not only in Zambia but abroad as well. But there seems to be a very serious conspiracy to bring the man to his knees perhaps because he is also a politician with obvious intentions to one day be elected president of Zambia and perhaps that is the crime.
Imagine you run a chain of businesses and one day one of your very senior executives resigns with immediate effect telling you that he has to take up a government appointment right away.
Well, am sure you would wish the person, man or woman all the best for having his abilities noticed to contribute to national development. But then am sure it would confuse you a little may be a lot if a few days after the person resigns, you have visitors at your office from the DEC and on the day you are being interrogated over the charges levelled against you that person is also taking oath of office.
I may be wrong but my first impression would be that the person may have been working against you. The events being coincidental and unconnected? No, no, no!
We know that in business cheques are issued and a few times you request that the cheque is not deposited because of this or that reason.
But when someone decides to deposit even when you have agreed to the contrary and perhaps even start settling whatever amount in cash, then it should simply mean that the person to whom the cheque was issued is up to something or is indeed under some external influence to damage your reputation.
You see some of these people who go selling their products from office to office may actually have very flowery sweet language to even convince you that they can deliver whatever items on a post-dated cheque and will actually wait for you to advise if they can deposit.
So for those businessmen who are also politicians or the other way round and especially if you are MMD, my advice is that be wary, be extremely cautious for not all that glitters is gold. You must be alive to the fact that these people may be working with you business or political opponents.
After reading this it may now dawn to you that there may indeed be tales of a real kind that you have not told.
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Ba woods 2010
June 8, 2012 at 11:23 am
fyobe ifyo………
Mtl
June 8, 2012 at 11:31 am
Politics z a dirty game.y arent u mentioning names,wat r u afraid of.whoeva that minista z matako yakwe,he cnt mind hs buisnes.nindoshi.
nyatu
June 8, 2012 at 11:31 am
ya naufwa namumakufi zii
GUN
June 8, 2012 at 11:34 am
Tables turn my dear!
top kat
June 8, 2012 at 11:39 am
mrs ben mwila no one is perscuting either you or your husband.you and your husband should jus readjust your life style to live wthin your means.stop buying things you cant afford.you seem to have an over inflated perception of your riches.i have no sympathy for characters of your kind.
kakolwe
June 8, 2012 at 11:45 am
Why? Which entrence to arcdes shopping mall in 2000? Tapali shoping mall palya iwe mwankole. Elo uyu BY ulelandapo is a good businessman but also too shrewed. Careful na campaign yobe iwe chi mukolwe
Nyele
June 8, 2012 at 11:47 am
you issued a cheque that is criminal who is perscuting you we even know you uor companies have cripled na shala neka party
2720
June 8, 2012 at 12:32 pm
BY AFTA EXPULSION FROM MMD HE FORMD ZRP.FROM ZRP PRESIDENT BUCK ON MMD AS AN MP.HONESTLY WHO CAN VOTE 4 SUCH A PERSON.BY IS CORUPT BUSINESSMAN AD DIRTY POLITICIAN.WE KNOW WADE ADAMS SCANDAL.
Faraday
June 8, 2012 at 12:53 pm
thats the it is. wat do u want us to do? cry 4u?
Igwee
June 8, 2012 at 1:09 pm
The law is the law. What makes u special? U bounced a cheque and thats criminal
Dandy
June 8, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I really chuckled when I reached that point where the so called cabinet minister was inspecting the so called Nissan patrol.I can imagine him in a mukamuchona suit first looking at the woman’s legs then running his eye balls on the car registration.One can not help to wonder but conclude that the writer is implying that there is serious witch hunt for former MMD cadres or MPs.This sounds like one hell of a frustrated woman with an accusing finger.Anyway if that is the case she can sue for unlawful detention.
iyee
June 8, 2012 at 1:46 pm
viakulolavie
chiingu
June 8, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Ni BY Mwila uyu.But when did he resign?
oxmos
June 8, 2012 at 1:52 pm
finshi ifi? mention names please,this article was good if names where added to and not being critical or try to save people who are criminals
gustavo
June 8, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Its BY and his wife u are talking about, but who is the other minister
K 1
June 8, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Get ready 2 b f**kd by kambwili
Dabwitso Chamanyazi
June 8, 2012 at 2:10 pm
If its 2000 then the minister must be no other than the man who is our president now, it can only be because he was also MMD national secretary. Yaba yalikakana pa zed. Too bad BY and your wife.
Alien
June 8, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Ben MWilas wife
ROY MASE
June 8, 2012 at 2:15 pm
B.Y & yo family stop complaining u guys re hyppocrites, u made people suffer ku minestone. tym 2 enjoy yo fruets big man, ukose sana boi D.E.C Temunobe.
DOC PHIRI
June 8, 2012 at 2:21 pm
i have just worsted my time reading this article very long article yet no substance
condom
June 8, 2012 at 2:34 pm
what a useless article. Is this a must read article? Cheap journalism
Ben mwila is living expensive in order to go broke
Tomato Balunda
June 8, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Is that a thesis from Rusangu? This is blog – keep your miserable stories short.
Kasman
June 8, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Nothing special about the article. Those are personal issues
TULANDEPO
June 8, 2012 at 2:59 pm
BY Mwila and his TURPETH in UK are broke. You think you can win public sympathy!? We know your dirt deals and who chased you from MMD? Was it not your so called late relative FTJ. Now you are accusing this goverment of persecution.aND you think you are presidential material! ATASE KABIYENI UKO…..
MundiaM
June 8, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Margaret Mwila and her family members should stop being attention seekers. BY is nolonger the rich man of the 1980s and 1990s. He unlike world rich people choose to live an extremely luxurious life despite that they knew that their companies were struggling. KEEPIN UP APPERANCES CAN BE TOTALLY DANGEROUS! Madam Margaret Mwila, just prepare to serve a jail sentence or pay a fine!
CONTEMPT
June 8, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Go and testify in court, not here.
shik m
June 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm
This women is the wife of BY
Witty
June 8, 2012 at 5:37 pm
BY is an ass hole and he deserves the measure plus more that he has received.He brought in arms in Chiluba’s time and some people lost their jobs due to that and he didn’t care a hoot about them.Let him also taste his unjustice.To God be the glory.
Aminata
June 8, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Leave them alone, its life and living
ChaCha
June 8, 2012 at 7:46 pm
If you’ve got all that money why persue politics, saty away from it.
ziman
June 8, 2012 at 8:14 pm
BY surely U a hopeless richman! What about Hume Ltd in Luanshya which is sadly closed workers have never been paid their benefits. When are you going to pay them kanshi, cause the whole equipment has been sold and years are goingby without workers getting their dues. So imwe ba BY U want to have it all! with no regards to yo former workers Shaa! stop being cry babes and pay for yo sins sisie!!
Chimbwi No Plan
June 8, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Ok. Mwalisheta sana and now you come to our website for us to feel sorry for you plunderers. We r not fools we know you original Plunderers.
muzezwa
June 9, 2012 at 8:24 am
Story off guard,Tumfweko ur off guard ChimbiChimbi
DIPLOMACY
June 9, 2012 at 9:57 am
Behind every successful man lies a series of Failures!!!
Path finder
June 9, 2012 at 10:02 am
I know its BY . he is just broke kwapwa
Truth2
June 9, 2012 at 10:38 am
why is it that if a politician commits a crime and he/she is bening prosecuted,then it is political persecution.If he an ordniry citizen commits the same crime and he is being prosecuted,then he deserves to be in prison for the crime.So whatever the case,in zambia it seems crimes are for ordinary citizens and with politicians,there is no crime whatever the case…there is just political persecution ..so mr whoever posted this column,just deal with the law and defend yourself…stop hiding your wrong doings in politics.
mike kanyanta
June 9, 2012 at 11:12 am
seeing a picture of a falls, I thought the story was about zambian falls or something.please give us a break from such useless stories.who cares about by and his wife anyway.
Treva
June 9, 2012 at 11:20 am
This a false story from a criminal who is out to gain sympathy. In the first place, why bounce a cheque if you are honorable. Let the criminals face the law without let or hindrance.
Drewman
June 9, 2012 at 12:39 pm
The mystery man is UKWA!
mafinga man
June 10, 2012 at 1:53 am
let this be a lesson to you chaps who are rich, what you should bear in mind is that one day or the other those riches will fly away from you. The right thing in life is not to be pompus no matter how wealthy you may be. sorry BY Mwila for what you are going through.