MMD leader Nevers Mumba has denied accusations by President Michael Sata that he seeking criminal asylum in South Africa.
Addressing a media briefing at his residence in Kabulonga in Lusaka, Dr. Mumba said the accusations that he was in South Africa to ask for criminal asylum are false.
Dr. Mumba said the opposition leaders that travelled to South Africa have no intentions of leaving Zambia because they have nothing to run away from.
?We are not running away and if there is anything that President Sata wants to do to me and my colleagues in the opposition he will have to do it right here in Zambia,? Dr. Mumba stated.
The MMD President explained that the South Africa meeting was meant to facilitate a legal meeting with their lawyer.
?We didn?t go to South Africa to have a political meeting, we went there to meet our international lawyer and as you aware our lawyer Mr. Robert Amsterdam is not allowed to enter Zambia so we had to meet in a neutral environment to discuss our legal options.?
?In today?s technological age, the issue of having a meeting outside the country does not arise. What happens in Zambia attracts the interest of the international community in real time. So where you hold the meeting does not really matter,? Dr. Mumba said.
He also dismissed assertions by Chief Government Spokesman Kennedy Sakeni that former President Rupiah Banda attended and organised the South Africa press conference.
?I feel pity for my brother Sakeni because he is being forced to release statements that he has not written,? he said.
?I feel pity for my brother Sakeni because he is being forced to release statements that he has not written,? he said.
And Dr. Mumba says the opposition leaders are determined to continue alerting the international community to the growing human rights abuses taking place in Zambia.
Dr. Mumba revealed that the opposition leaders will soon engage the African Union and the SADC Secretariat to present a dossier of documented human rights abuses under the PF administration.
?The document we gave the Commonwealth is about 40 pages, we will document further abuses in the next dossier we will give to the AU may be 60 pages and the SADC one might around 80 pages long.?
Dr. Mumba also appealed to President Sata to desist from telling lies.
He said President Sata has developed a bad habit of telling him on his political opponents.
?When people are hiding you don?t know what they went for to South Africa because the person is looking for asylum but he does not know we can go to South Africa and get him extradited and come remove his immunity here,? Mr Sata said.
Dr. Mumba reminded President Sata that he is now occupying a holy office at State House which requires that he tells the truth all the time.
?This government should slow down. This knee jerk reaction to any challenge from the opposition will not help the PF government.?
Earlier today President Michael Sata claimed that the South African government was not ready to give criminal asylum to former President Rupiah Banda.
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President Sata explained that Mr Banda did not know that the government can have him extradited from South Africa to Zambia so that his immunity is removed.
The Head of State charged that MMD president, Nevers Mumba, his UPND counterpart, Hakainde Hichielma and Mr Banda were looking for criminal asylum in South Africa.
Mr Sata stated that out of the three opposition leaders who held a media briefing in South Africa, only United Liberal Party (ULP) leader Sakwiba Sikota was the clean.
?So the only person who was clean out of all those was Bo Saki. Nevers Mumba and HH were looking for criminal asylum and the South African President is not ready to give Rupiah Banda, HH and Nevers Mumba asylum.
Mr Sata called on the opposition political leaders to return home and exonerate themselves.
?When people are hiding you don?t know what they went for to South Africa because the person is looking for asylum but he does not know we can go to South Africa and get him extradited and come remove his immunity here,? Mr Sata said.
?So the only person who was clean out of all those was Bo Saki. Nevers Mumba and HH were looking for criminal asylum and the South African President is not ready to give Rupiah Banda, HH and Nevers Mumba asylum. They should come here and sing the song here in Zambia,? Mr Sata stated.
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