By GRACE CHAILE
THE Attorney General Chambers have asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss the matter in which a group of 10 UPND cadres is demanding K10 million as compensation for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
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And another group of 10 UPND cadres who were accused of burning Lusaka’s City Market in 2017, will be compensated K1 million each by the State for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
In a consent judgement dated July 13, 2023, signed by Lusaka High Court Judge, Situmbeko Chocho, the Attorney General, Mr Mulilo Kabesha, agreed to compensate the plaintiffs K1 million each and K700, 000 for legal fees.
“That the defendant shall pay each plaintiff the sum of K1 million as damages. That the defendant shall pay costs in the sum of K700, 000. That the above shall be full and final settlement of all the claims in this matter,” read the document.
The 10 are Michael Tembo, Njwau Sitali, Mainza Chongo, Mulenga Chileshe and Wonder Nakazuba.
Others are David Samba, Sitali Mukuni, Biggie Mubanga, Zhyinga Kahiata and James Hambulo.
Meanwhile, in another matter, Lubinda Simonda and nine others, the UPND cadres who were arrested and charged with riotous behaviour in 2016, but were later acquitted want the State to pay them legal fees in the sum of K550, 000 and K5, 500 each for loss of business.
But the Attorney General’s Chambers in an affidavit sworn by Counsel Etambuyu Mutonga has raised preliminary issues contending that the plaintiffs were abusing the court process having already commenced a matter with similar reliefs in the same court under cause number 2022/HP/067.
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