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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Former Housing and Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela has admitted to owing Azadi Investment Limited Company six point five million kwacha for the construction of his State Lodge properties.<\/p>\n

In his defense before the Lusaka High Court, Mr. Chitotela says on August 6, 2018, he entered into a construction agreement with Azadi for the construction of the said house at a total contract sum of nine point six million kwacha.<\/p>\n

However despite the said agreement the latter has only paid three point one million kwacha. Recently, Azadi Investment Limited Company sued Mr. Chitotela for a settlement on the outstanding balance.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Former Housing and Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela has admitted to owing Azadi Investment Limited Company six point five million kwacha for the construction of his State Lodge properties. In his defense before the Lusaka High Court, Mr. Chitotela says on August 6, 2018, he entered into a construction agreement with Azadi for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-23722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nChitotela Admits To Owing Contractor Of His Mansion - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Housing and Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela has admitted to owing Azadi Investment Limited Company six p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chitotela Admits To Owing Contractor Of His Mansion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Housing and Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela has admitted to owing Azadi Investment Limited Company six p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-26T20:19:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-26T20:21:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/05\/img-628fe12bbdd9c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chitotela Admits To Owing Contractor Of His Mansion\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-26T20:19:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-26T20:21:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\"},\"wordCount\":117,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/05\/img-628fe12bbdd9c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chitotela-admits-to-owing-contractor-of-his-mansion\",\"name\":\"Chitotela Admits To Owing Contractor Of His Mansion - 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