THE Patriotic Front (PF) has asked the Lusaka High Court to set aside the committal proceedings commenced by Miles Sampa against four senior party officials for allegedly ignoring an injunction not to hold themselves out of their positions.
The four PF senior officials include Nickson Chilangwa, the party’s acting deputy secretary general, party acting president Given Lubinda, Mr Raphael Nakacinda, the information and publicity chairperson and Mr Davies Chama the national chairman.
In February. 2023, Judge Timothy Katenekwa granted Mr Sampa an ex-parte order of interim injunction, restraining the said party officials from suspending or expelling him.
In his notice of motion for an interim injunction, Mr Sampa is contending that Mr Lubinda and Mr Chilangwa disregarded the ex-parte injunction he obtained on February 9, 2023 that barred them from acting in their positions until further notice.
He argued that the alleged contemnors must not hold on to their positions as former President Edgar Lungu who appointed them resigned as PF President.
But according to an affidavit in support of notice of motion to set aside leave and committal proceedings filed in Court, Mr Chilangwa has argued that the contempt of court proceedings were incompetently before court.
He contended that the address on the court documents was for the PF party secretariat and not the residential addresses for the alleged contemnors.
He added that the said documents had no description of each alleged contemnors and he was never served with an injunction relating to the matter but became aware of it through social media.
“That the committal proceedings are not competently before this honourable court and fall short of the required standard for such proceedings to take off,” he submitted.
