Constructive Journalism demands truth, ethics, principles, and fairness and calls on us, as an independent, respectable and investigative International web to set the records straight.
The said parties, for their own selfish, devious, corrupt motives colluded with Rupiah Banda to ‘hate’ Mahtani and use the entire Government machinery to destroy Mahtani to enable them steal, grab assets that do not belong to them and share the ‘loot’ amongst themselves and their conspirators. Mahtani suffered injustice from Rupiah but according to Mahtani God granted ‘justice’ instead!
A number of the matters are still subjudice and out of our respect for the Courts we shall merely highlight evidence filed in Courts and which are within the public domain.
How can Zambia Reports suggest or infer maliciously that Mahtani ‘forged’ the share transfer forms? They made these allegations before to the Police and after thorough investigations it was proven that there was no such ‘forgery’ except for the Ventriglias themselves tampering with the documents and obtaining a witness statement from Zaheeda Essa under duress at gun-point. Zaheeda even lodged a complaint with the Law Association of Zambia on this matter. Independent Forensic Consultants Dr. David Joseph Klatzow testified that there was absolutely no forgery on the part of Mahtani.
The fundamental document (the Shareholders’ agreement) appears under the signature of all the parties involved and the originals are available for any verification despite the connivance to remove these documents by Sakwiba and his clients with the DEC, Attorney General’s Chambers, and other Government agencies in the time of Rupiah.
There is no question on the issue of the shareholding in Portland Cement Zambia. What is in question is that from the amounts embezzled by the Ventriglias (over $40 million), how much of this was shared with Rupiah, Henry and James Banda and their associates? This embezzlement, money laundering and outright theft has badly affected Portland Cement Zambia and put into risk the service of over 1000 Zambians directly, not to point out those who were employed indirectly.
How much was paid to Sakwiba Sikota S.C, Z. Muya, and some of the other lawyers? This is tabulated in the claim by ZPC against the Ventriglias over and above the claim for cement provided free for Sakwiba’s home renovations!
A letter from the President to Dr. Mahtani written in 2007 was also displayed by the Zambia Reports. How was this obtained? Why does it appear to have been extracted out of context? This proves that Sakwiba was in cahoots with the DEC and the previous regime and took copies of all documents raided under false searches by the DEC. What more proof do you need in order to know that criminals camouflaged under representing their clients?
Dr. Mahtani, being a Christian, follows Biblical principles in loving one another irrespective of their political affiliations.