{"id":46832,"date":"2023-08-11T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:23:40","slug":"dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","title":{"rendered":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba to court for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>During a briefing on Tuesday, the IG accused Dr M\u2019membe of inciting peace-loving Zambians into a civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>He said that police will not sit and watch an individual whose utterances are hell bent on causing anarchy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Musamba said the bringing of military coups or \u201clet me just say the relevant of coups from West Africa into this country we are wondering if this is the philosophy of socialism&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZambia Police Service has an obligation to defend the Constitution at any cost and it will do even if it takes some stain measure such as smashing the rebellion which we know is carefully being instigated by the Socialist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an affidavit in support of complaint filed in the Subordinate Court of the First Class for the Lusaka District, Dr M\u2019membe said the conduct of the accused is criminalized under section 191 of the Penal Code CAP 87 of the Laws of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>He said by virtue of Mr Musamba\u2019s position in the Police Service, a compliant by the opposition leader lodged at any police station cannot be objectively acted upon because of the same.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing Dr. M\u2019membe is referring to where the Police IG is alleged to have defamed him took place on the very day he was detained at Woodlands Police Station in Lusaka.<\/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. Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba to court for defamation. During a briefing on Tuesday, the IG accused Dr M\u2019membe of inciting peace-loving Zambians into a civil disobedience. He said that police will not sit and watch an individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-46832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","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>DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...\" \/>\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\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\" \/>\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=\"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\"},\"wordCount\":268,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\",\"name\":\"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT - Zambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\",\"name\":\"Zambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT - Zambia","description":"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT","og_description":"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","og_site_name":"Zambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT","datePublished":"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court"},"wordCount":268,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zambia","Zambia"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court","name":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT - Zambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-11T20:04:12+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-11T21:23:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Leader of the opposition Socialist Party (SP) Dr Fred M\u2019membe has taken the Inspector General of Police Raphael Musamba ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/08\/sm_1691772659.2545.jpg","width":800,"height":400,"caption":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dr-fred-mmembe-drags-police-ig-to-court#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DR. FRED M\u2019MEMBE DRAGS POLICE IG TO COURT"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/","name":"Zambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}