Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba was Friday morning forced to cancel an eagerly anticipated news conference after intelligence reports showed that the GBM group had planned to attack the event.
Mr. Kabimba who is also PF Secretary General was set to date the local media at the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in Ridgeway but canceled the conference with only an hour to go.
Mr. Kabimba’s media coordinator Chanda Mfula said the conference could not go ahead due to a serious situation in Mr Kabimba’s family which needs his total attention.
“The media briefing that was scheduled to be addressed by the Patriotic Front Secretary General and Minister of Justice Hon. Wynter M. Kabimba, SC, ODS, MP has been postponed to a date to be announced later. This is due to a serious family situation that has arisen and which requires Hon. Kabimba’s total attention. Thank you and apologies,” Mr Mfula posted on his Facebook page.
But intelligence sources have revealed that Mr Kabimba cancelled the conference because he feared for his life and that of the Journalists present.
“What happened was that Wynter was geared to go ahead but only changed his mind after we shared with him what we picked up. The GBM camp had a meeting last night and planned to attack Wynter and beat up the Journalists at the meeting. It was going to be embarrassing for the SG and he quickly cancelled the briefing,” the sources said.
A check at the Ministry of Justice found heavily armed police officers keeping vigil at the Ministry.
And some information obtained from highly placed PF sources indicate that Mr. Kabimba was due to announce that he was stepping down from the position of party Secretary General.
The sources said President Michael Sata had personally asked Mr. Kabimba to step down as a compromise position following weeks of infighting in the PF.
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