By GRACE CHAILE LESOETSA
AFRICAN Life Financial Services Limited have sought leave of the Lusaka High Court that Forum For Democracy and Development (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi be sent to prison for contempt.
The Financial services company in a statement supporting application for leave to apply for order of committal stated that the matter between it and Mr Dickson Mtonga and 22 others is still active in court and the court is yet to determine whether or not it is liable to pay the 23 the sum of US$300,000 or any sum at all.
However, on or about February 6, 2021 , Ms Nawakwi is alleged to have made utterances at a press briefing which she misrepresented the facts in such a manner as to make it look as though African Life ,is liable to pay Mr Mtonga and others US$300,000 and other monies ,which is a matter pending in court.
African Life contended that Ms Nawakwi’s utterances are and were calculated at prejudicing the general public against it.
Ms Nawakwi is alleged to have said: “the ex-Anglo American workers , and these are ordinarily guards, have never got their dues. They were transferred from Anglo American to African Life with a package of US$300, 000 up to today they have never been paid……,” reads the application.
