Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:00:34 +0000 By Chikumbi Katebe GEOFFREY Bwalya Mwamba’s company, Arizona Marketing and Distribution Limited has sued Zesco Limited for breach of contract for allegedly failing to make available a contract form to enable them commence works on a 2014 delivery contract. This is in a matter in which Zesco aborted a contract for the supply and delivery of poles worthy us$29,588,922 under acrimonious circumstances when Mr Mwamba was still a minister of defence in the PF government. In 2013, the Post Newspaper now in liquidation published a dramatic headline on its front page accusing UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba of unlawfully soliciting contracts from Zesco, Zambia’s the power utility company. According to The Post at the time, Mr Mwamba had been pressuring Zesco to award his company Arizona Marketing and Distribution Limited a one-year contract for the supply and delivery of wooden poles. “On 8th June, 2014, the plaintiff submitted […]
