By KALOBWE BWALYATHE arrest of KCM liquidator, Milingo Lungu by the DEC is premature as he first needed to do a proper handover of the mine either to a new liquidator or to the management for the state to be on the safe side, Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) leader Sean Tembo has said.Mr Tembo warned that there would inevitably be a protracted legal battle between Government and Vedanta going forward.He said a such legal battle would boil down to how the mine was ran by the liquidator in the past three years it was entrusted to him, and Government would need the goodwill and institutional memory of Mr Milingo if it was going to put up a decent fight in court against Vedanta.“For the past three years or so, the liquidator had total control of the mine without any oversight from a board. He entered into contracts and made decisions which the new liquidator […]
MILINGO’S ARREST PREMATURE – TEMBO
