 Good morning to all watching us by the social media and to members of the press. We are here at Telusaka High Court with the acting president Honore Bo Given Rwinda, the secretary general Honore Bo Raflo Nakachinda, Honore Bo Mwila Davis Mwila and Madam Capona here, members of the Central Committee and other Central Committee members. Oh, our national chairperson Honore Bo Mwila Mwila Mwila Imanyo Mpankata, who's our member of parliament for the Posochi, is our acting chairperson after the decisions that were made over the weekend. We have some development here at the high court. I will hand over to SG to speak to the matter, then invite the president to speak to this matter. Acting president and colleagues, chairmans, MCCs that are here. I may not have to speak to the principal issue, but only to report that because of the criminal enterprise that was conducted yesterday by one Mao Sampa, who is not a member of patriotic front, as of yesterday, he had been facing disciplinary charges. He was expected to comply with the regulation and processes within the party, but instead he chose to take the route of impunity and commit what would be considered tizonalas. And to that effect, he found himself in a situation that is no longer a member of patriotic front. And after that, the party sought for what is legally right to be done that acting president will speak to. So may I call upon you just to speak to the nation about the new development. Thank you. Before I do let the national chairman say something about it. Thank you acting president. You see, it is very unfortunate in Zambia that the police can go and provide protection to Unloaf Assembly. Imagine it is the PF, ask the original PF, the owners of the party, who did that. They brought a whole cankinza, but they went ahead to protect Unloaf Assembly and gave it that prominence. And we have the visiting head of state, which is very shameful. And that is an illegality that was conducted by Mao Sampa. Mao Sampa is no longer a member of the patriotic front. I am the acting chairperson of the party who is supposed to be the convener of the general conference. And no member of the Central Committee attended that. And no part of officials who are in our party register attended that. So that was an illegality and we don't recognize it. So as a nation and my appeal to all members of the patriotic front, genuine ones, that was an illegality. Please take as your leaders, we are in charge of the process and inform you accordingly. Thank you. Fellow countrymen and countrywomen, we in the patriotic front have said time and again that we are being governed by a gentleman who is totally undemocratic. Haga hindi Bali Montuabu Fihijilema is nothing but a pin top dictator. That's what he is. For him to have allowed the police or to have instructed the police to permit Mao Sampa to conduct an illegal conference on the day when this country was celebrating its 59th birthday, its 59th independence anniversary, is totally uncalled for and undemocratic. We know that Mao Sampa is not working on his own. We know that Mao Sampa is only a tool in the scheme of destroying democracy in Zambia. We know that Haga hindi he did a must spend sleepless nights just at the mention of the name patriotic front and he thinks and knows that was long as the patriotic front survives his chances in 2026 are new and this is the reason why he's working extremely hard and spending a lot of money to decimate the patriotic front. But as God would always have it, right is always might and in a country that espouses multi-party democracy, a country in which there is a clear separation between the three wings of government, the executive, the judicature and the legislature. You cannot have it all on your own. The executive cannot think that they can interfere with the operations of the other two wings of government. And this is testimony of the fact that there are still some judges who know what it means to be judges in a multi-party state. We're therefore grateful that the judge has granted us this injunction and I want to sound this warning. The police are now called to order. We reported to the police when Mao Sampa went and destroyed our secretariat, to date the police have not taken action and now with this expati order we know that Mao Sampa would dare us by going ahead and masquerading as leader of the patriotic front. We want to warn the police if they don't arrest him for breaching this now and call out Mao Sampa for being a stuge that is meant to destroy the patriotic front. As a matter of fact people must be reminded that it is out of the benevolence of these men and women in the leadership of the PF that Mao Sampa was even a member of this party. We expelled him in 2015. He came and knelt down, he was sleeping at our homes begging us that we re-admit him. We re-admitted him, we even allowed him to stand as mayor for Lusaka and yet look at how he is stabbing us in the back. That's the reason why it is said that bad habits die hard. We forgot this, but now we have been reminded and we are sending this warning all those members of the patriotic front who found themselves at that illegal conference can you bring yourselves now to the secretary general come and apologize to the secretary general before we take action against you because you participated in an illegal assembly you did not get instructions from the SG you just decided because Mao Sampa gave you a little bit of money you went and gathered there can you on up now come and report to the secretary general so that you get some clemency from him otherwise the acts will also fall on you this party has a lot of members and yes we are recruiting even more members so we will not allow anyone to destroy the path that the zambians have put us on the zambians are expecting this political party called patriotic front to give credible checks and balances to Hagainde and Hagainde doesn't want that that's the reason why he's using people like mails to try and destroy us that we shall not allow him to do we'll make sure that we defend our party this is a democratic party and at the right time when the time comes we shall have our extraordinary general conference we already announced honorable chairperson for information announced after our last meeting that in three weeks time we shall have a central committee meeting to discuss the issue of the extraordinary general conference so people take heart be patient this party is in safe hands and this party is for sure going to thrive even higher thank you very much maus for testing us because we have now proven that we are a strong party you thought that we were weak and that was scumper and scramble because of what you illegality you did yesterday but now you have proven the fact that we are mighty this is the mighty patriotic front and it cannot be moved by little chongololos like you mailsampa now we have expelled you and we want to even tell you don't even dare go to parliament stay away because if you want come to court to come and challenge our decision to expel you we gave you the opportunity to save the people of matero instead of saving them you want to destroy the hopes of the people that elected you that will not allow you to do mailsampa now i want to warn you mailsampa even the resources that you borrowed from the party the resources you borrowed from the leaders of the party bring them back quickly because now we'll start taking you to court for all the property you're holding which belongs to members of this party you're holding our property which we gave to you to use in your campaign and you don't want to even give it back to us now this is a war with you we declare war on you mailsampa thank you very much because before you leave just your call to democratic institutions first the speaker of the national assembly i think you've delivered a letter that the speaker must act on your letter as a party as expelled mr mailsampa uh the registrar of society there may be attempts to attempts to change what do you i think speak to these institutions of democracy and their expectations in relation to the rule of law we are very clear on the fact that the statutory instrument 529 which was published by jack mwimbu minister of affairs and internal security was all couched to aim at the patriotic front this is no wonder that mailsampa who had actually sued the registrar of society is asking the registrar to compel pf to go to an early convention decided to withdraw that matter from court at the time when jack mwimbu was also issuing that statutory instrument it is clear that they are talking to each other they are working kuhut and we know that the registrar of society is under tremendous pressure but this morning secretary general went and filed a letter with the registrar to warn her that the event that took place yesterday was in inequality and must not accept any papers from mailsampa fortunately now we have this expert order which secretary general will go and give to registrar of societies you are now compelled by law by the by the judiciary not to entertain any person who shall purport to be presenting any list of leadership of the patriotic front because the leadership is already registered by yourself any attempt to do that will be going against this court order and that is punishable by law madam speaker of the national assembly we know that even as you preside over the business of parliament you are always against members of the patriotic front this time you have this order we have instructed you that we have expelled mailsampa and can you please make sure that mailsampa vacates his seat in parliament he is sitting there not on his own accord he is sitting there because the patriotic front sponsored him to be a candidate and he wants the material seat or the courtesy of the pf we have now withdrawn our membership of mailsampa and therefore he is no longer qualified to sit in the national assembly let him go to court it is not up to you madam nele muti you have received notice that we have expelled him let him come and battle with us in court not in parliament and please don't you get involved this is a party matter it is not a national assembly matter all members of parliament who go to parliament on account of being adopted by political party sees to hold the seat when the party withdraws their membership so please follow the law madam nele muti thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much let's just attend to his emergency it's two things yes on one hand we regret that we did that but on the other hand we are happy that we gave mailsampa a second bite now the zambian people will see that we are not vindictive a person that went against us we still readmitted him because we thought that you would learn this is how democratic we are but now he has done something that is not forgivable this time mailsampa must know that he has no more future in the patriotic front i have not suspended him we have expelled him yes we have we have expelled him the constitution of the patriotic front gives power to the central committee and to the president to take any measures to protect the security of the party and in this case we cannot allow a person who drugs the party into dispute who goes and arranges an illegal meeting we can't allow him to continue to be a member of the party he is expelled and shall remain expelled maybe we can even add a voice from kansu kansu makebi take the you ask the question okay so mailsampa earlier got an injunction to stop him from being expelled from the party suspended or suspended from the party that related to a different thing that he did but he committed yet another offense and there's no nothing that stops the party from moving on a new issue so the old issue that he wasn't nothing was done to him he wasn't suspended but he committed yet another offense on the basis on which he was expelled so that does not apply now he's not a member of pf anymore based on the new uh circumstances and he will remain not a member until the court orders otherwise if the court sees it fit because he's been expelled and the injunction is to the extent that he should not hold himself out as a member of the party anywhere or a functionary of the party that's what the injunction says and the matter will be head inter parties that is with him in november on the 21st of november that is the next time in the meantime he remains not a member of pf and the national assembly has been informed of the same judge total yes the first order has been overtaken the first order has been overtaken that that injunction that injunction relates to a different issue this is a different issue altogether that restraint was not for purposes of having held a convention that was not authorized that related to something else and um exactly so it's it's different it's different so it's it's different you should understand it from that context yes when somebody starts with matter it's not the same as he's taking a phone