{"id":34848,"date":"2022-11-17T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation"},"modified":"2022-11-17T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:32:14","slug":"mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation","title":{"rendered":"Mbita Chitala\u2019s book invites lawsuit from Copperbelt Energy Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Immediate past Zesco Limited board chairperson Mbita Chitala\u2019s recently published book \u2018Corporate Capture: The Political Economy of Electricity Management in Zambia (How Not to Manage a State Enterprise)\u2019, has invited a defamation lawsuit against the author.<\/p>\n<p>The Copperbelt Energy Corporation is unhappy with some of the contents in the book and has since dragged Dr Chitala to the High Court seeking damages for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>The energy company contends that the defendant should be answerable for claiming that it had colluded with influential individuals between 2014 and 2021 to disadvantage ZESCO in the power supply business.<\/p>\n<p>It complains in its statement of claim that Dr Chitala accused it of not respecting the Bulk Supply Agreement between it and ZESCO. Further, Dr Chitala, in the book, alleged that CEC wantonly stopped supplying electricity to domestic customers but instead concentrated on channeling power to mining companies.<\/p>\n<p>CEC contends that allegations leveled against it in the book mean that the plantiff is engaged in bad corporate governance. It now wants the High Court to compel Dr Chitala to pay exemplary damages for defamtion and any other reliefs the court may deem fit. After the book was published, CEC, in January this year issued a statement expressing its displeasure over some revelations against it in the piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Immediate past Zesco Limited board chairperson Mbita Chitala\u2019s recently published book \u2018Corporate Capture: The Political Economy of Electricity Management in Zambia (How Not to Manage a State Enterprise)\u2019, has invited a defamation lawsuit against the author. The Copperbelt Energy Corporation is unhappy with some of the contents in the book and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-34848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mbita Chitala\u2019s book invites lawsuit from Copperbelt Energy Corporation - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Immediate past Zesco Limited board chairperson Mbita Chitala\u2019s recently published book \u2018Corporate Capture: The Political ...\" \/>\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\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mbita Chitala\u2019s book invites lawsuit from Copperbelt Energy Corporation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Immediate past Zesco Limited board chairperson Mbita Chitala\u2019s recently published book \u2018Corporate Capture: The Political ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\" \/>\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=\"2022-11-17T23:08:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-17T23:32:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668713954.45.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"388\" \/>\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\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mbita Chitala\u2019s book invites lawsuit from Copperbelt Energy Corporation\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-17T23:08:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-17T23:32:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668713954.45.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mbita-chitalas-book-invites-lawsuit-from-copperbelt-energy-corporation\",\"name\":\"Mbita Chitala\u2019s book invites lawsuit from Copperbelt Energy Corporation - 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