{"id":28697,"date":"2022-08-09T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-court-decision-on-gams-filling-station-seizure-raise-eyebrows"},"modified":"2022-08-09T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T21:22:10","slug":"malawi-court-decision-on-gams-filling-station-seizure-raise-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-court-decision-on-gams-filling-station-seizure-raise-eyebrows","title":{"rendered":"Malawi court decision on Gam\u2019s filling station seizure raise eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A Lilongwe-based businessman has lost a filling station worth about MK2.5 billion for pushing someone to settle his debt amounting to MK1.5 million. The victim, of what a legal mind calls strange court judgement, Geleson Mkweza, has been left with so many questions and suspicion with the court\u2019s decision which favoured his debtor.<\/p>\n

Mkweza ran a filling station at Kanengo in Lilongwe under the name Gam Fuels LTD. A court order in our possession shows that in August 2020 Alfred Gangata, another businessperson, got fuel on credit from Gam Fuels LTD amounting to MK1, 500,000 meant for heavy equipment machines with a promise that the bill would be settled by with a week.<\/p>\n

Court records indicate that Gangata couldn\u2019t pay for over six months forcing Mkweza to take away keys from a construction motor vehicle belonging to Gangata.<\/p>\n

Gangata sued Mkweza for loss of business and profits because he was unable to use the motor vehicle in question. Gangata was demanding about MK1 billion for lost of business and profits. High Court Judge Ken Manda granted Gangata his wish but the reduced the sought amount to MK747 million.<\/p>\n

In his judgement, dated June 29, 2022, justice Manda argued that by confiscating the motor vehicle keys the defendant took the law in his own hand when he had the right to commence legal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat surprises this court most is that the 1st defendant (Mkweza) is so adamant that he had the right to confiscate the machinery. He did not have that right.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis conduct in doing so, coupled with the fact that he does not deny confiscating the keys of the claimaint\u2019s machinery, makes the claimaint\u2019s application for judgement on admission succeed\u201d reads the judgement. Disatisfied with the court\u2019s decision Mkweza applied for a stay of the judgment ex parte but the court ordered that it should be inter parties.<\/p>\n

Again dissatisfied with this direction, Mkweza, through his lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale, applied to the Supreme Court for stay of the lower court decision but the application was rejected \u2013 consequently allowing for enforcement of the earlier judgement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was more surprising is the speed at which things have happened. I mean on the same day after the Supreme Court issued it\u2019s determination, sherrifs closed the filling station and notified the owner that it up for sale and a buyer had already been identified\u201d said the source who is well informed about this issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have closed the filling station \u2018Gam Fuels LTD\u2019 pending the selling of the same by private treaty as per the order of the court\u201d reads the notice dated July 21, 2022 from Assistant Sheriff identified as Mwale.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Bishop Simama has already deposited a cheque worth MK610 million to buy a Filling Station which include shops and offices valued at MK2.5 billion to settle a claim of about MK747 million.<\/p>\n

In an interview one of the legal practitioners, who refused to be named, also described this as strange: \u201cIt is true that Mkweza may have overreacted to grab the keys but surely the court should have been more reasonable and lenient.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere is someone who makes MK3 million per day for drilling boreholes but couldn\u2019t pay a debt amounting to MK1.5 million? And then, Mkweza should have been given time; the confiscating of the filling station is rather quick; did they value it at that amount? Who did the valuation? Was the owner involved? This , somehow, raises questions\u201d said the lawyer.<\/p>\n

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