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Former First Lady Thandiwe Banda Sues ACC
Former First Lady Thandiwe Banda has sued the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the allegedly unlawful seizure of apartments belonging to the Mpundu Trust Limited on Leopards Hill Road in Lusaka.
Mrs. Banda has filed the suit before the Lusaka High Court seeking compensation for damages suffered as a result of lost time on the real estate development project, the reversal of the restriction notice to lease or dispose of the property issued by the ACC against her property, as well as costs.
She wants in the alternative, the Court to annul the restriction notice and allow her to lease out the property and employ property managers.
The former First Lady filed an affidavit in support of originating summons in the Principal Registry through her lawyers of Central Chambers yesterday. She contended that Mpundu Trust Limited was established in 2009 to look after the interests of her children and their future education and health needs.
Ms Banda said ever since the notice was issued, she had never been informed of the alleged offence under investigation by the ACC which led to the seizure of property.
“I reasonably believe that no investigations are being conducted and the issue of restriction notices is an act of harassment and amounts to abuse of authority by the respondent. The restriction notice has scared any possible tenants in the project and the whole project is in jeopardy,” Ms Banda said.
Ms Banda said the issuance of the restriction notices was unreasonable and defied logic.
She said the Commission was well aware that the funding for the project was dependent upon the project being leased out and that she has not committed any crime in its acquisition.
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Ken
December 28, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Tell us where you got that money from in two years of being first lady and the said will be yours.
TimZ
December 28, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Is she Ms or Mrs Banda?
dopey
December 28, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Ken, you have access to the internet so you have no excuse for ignorance. Read, man, READ.
Research “venture capital financing”, mumish!
Your kind of ignorance should be punishable.
Jackie
December 28, 2012 at 6:02 pm
she was first lady travelled and was paid even Rupiah has and had money before coming into power this culture of finding faults in former president must end.
Koswe Banda
December 28, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Bakabwalala u will for this. Mwaleta icipowe mu Zambia. Bamakaka.
Zwangendaba
December 28, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Ati venture capital! R u her lawyer? Banda is a shameless thief just like FTJ. Ba ACC naimwe stop delaying a sTraight forward case U are letting away too many thieves!
Mwine Munshi
December 28, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Owe ba Tandy this will backfire who misled you? The re basing is just next week you can’t wait 6 months. This will backfire big time watch what will unfold.
SANGO
December 28, 2012 at 7:00 pm
She was a Basic School teacher
May be she got a loan. Even when
She was at state house she cotinued
Drawing the salary from Education
Samseno
December 28, 2012 at 7:01 pm
If they both had money before becoming president and first lady respectively why didn’t they build while in chipata? Even a grade one could see that kind of power manipulation. Its not witch-hunting or man hunting its logical!!!
Mutototo 2
December 28, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Thandiwe has the right to own property she was first lady after all. Guys try to be objective when commenting!
The Academician
December 30, 2012 at 2:20 pm
How many first ladies own such kind of property?
Globe Trekker
January 23, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Do you have an idea what Maureen owns? Just shut up!! By virtue of one being exposed to such high offices mean exposure to assistance in kind from well wishers – worldwide for that matter.
If an investor wants to come into the country to set up business, first he has to negotiate…and part of the negotiations MAYBE in kind as such above….
The ID10T
December 28, 2012 at 7:42 pm
When you are in politics, they are a business people who will support you just because they are gaining some mileage in their business. This is usually policy oriented. People will spend money to put and keep the person they want in power. That is really why the “supposed” investigation of MMD funds seems to be making no progress. If Banda and his people had just taken money for the lavish campaign from taxpayers’ money, I believe the PF, being so eager to prove Banda corrupt, would have made serious progress in these investigations. We would have been reading serious revelations from Namakando’s post newspaper. But if the Chinese investors and others wanted Banda to win and gave hime campaign material there is no crime there. Everyone has sponsors. eg PF and Mathani. I bet you ACC is stuck because Thandiwe’s money was similarly sourced.
Ask Mitt Romney
December 28, 2012 at 8:43 pm
I hope she brings Amsterdam as her lawyer so that we can come and shut that m@ther8fuck*r once and for all!
OS
December 28, 2012 at 8:44 pm
If really Zambians were patriotic THESE THIEVES could not even have the audacity to talk like this. PUBLIC SERVICE IS CORRUPT AND LAZY.NGOS ,MOST OF THEM ARE JUST LIKE THESE DEVIL INCARNATES I HAVE MENTIONED ABOVE. THE JUDICIALY A SORRY SITE.
Ask Mitt Romney
December 28, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Why is my comment awaiting moderation?
Eagels Eye
December 28, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Because of Winter another person is now daring the ACC. Katwishi who will be the next person.
Village Chicken
December 29, 2012 at 6:31 am
Exactly, Because of Winter and Sata utterances against ACC, others are following lead. You cannot degrade institutions and expect them to have public trust.
basic
December 29, 2012 at 6:54 am
ACC/ DEC when alerted of possible crime such as this should place a caveat at lands not allowing transfer, then find out the circumstances of acquisition of said property, then charge the offender under correct section of the law, then quickly prosecute case, then if prosecution is successful they should request judge to confiscate said property. If a crime did not happen at the property and there are no dead bodies buried there then what gives?
mc
December 29, 2012 at 8:10 am
caaman ka skool teacher iwe,where did u acquire such property from,ba kawalala imwe onse!
naphtali
December 29, 2012 at 11:49 am
People of zambia lets change our perception of charging everyone out of power, ACC should involve proffessional auditors in some of these investigations.Ba kabimba you are not exceptio
nal,you also need to be audited so that we asses if the assets you have really belong to you or from overgrown hands.One Zambia for all.
Village Chicken
December 30, 2012 at 5:57 am
By being a school teacher its not a deprivation curse. A dog seller in our society is a worse livelihood, yet there is one in our capital’s mayoral chambers!!
mandingo
December 30, 2012 at 6:13 am
Ka Thandi isa fye ndekunyenga ni nyele ilelenga ati utampe ukulaka naba ACC pantu nalishiba mudala RB talaikatapo pa mputi
kamuntu
December 30, 2012 at 8:23 am
Ok
Gaza
December 30, 2012 at 8:47 am
Acc are dull and useless ,they can not win a case.look at kapoko case,they lost the case because they do not know how to handle cases.
Abena PJ
December 31, 2012 at 3:43 am
Do you know that in England there is a law that if you buy something for 10,000 pounds or more, no matter who you are, politician or not you have to explain the source of your funding or failure to which you lose the property to the state? And here when we try to do the same corrupt people cry murder!