Luanda – Angolan head of the CASA-CE coalition, Abel Chivukuvuku, has filed a criminal defamation lawsuit against two journalists from “Despertar Radio”, it was announced today.
According to a statement from the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Action (DNIAP) of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) of Angola, the two journalists are called for a judicial interrogation on January 23, Wednesday.
In 2018, the leader of Angola’s Large Convergence of Salvation – Electoral Coalition (CASA-CE), the second opposition party in the country, was accused by members of the coalition of having “diverted funds” to party forces, accusations “refused” in the occasion by Chivukuvuku.
Speaking to Lusa today, journalist Queirós Anastácio Chiluvia, one of the visas, refuted the accusations of the president of CASA-CE, saying that the information body treated the matter “with due rigor”, seeking “unsuccessfully to hear the contradictory” .
“What happened was a news that Radio Despertar broadcast in 2018 about the upheaval that was happening at that time in CASA-CE where the radio source revealed the situation that was lived at that time,” he said.
“What we did was only to treat the matter as it was given to us and we also tried to listen to the contradiction on the part of the accused, in the case the leader Abel Chivukuvuku as well as other leaders of CASA-CE, but we did not,” he said. .
Asked what the position will be at the hearing on Wednesday, the journalist stressed that his “lawyers will prove” that the matter was released with “due responsibility and prudence.”
“The facts are there, they were published, but we deny this accusation that we would have defamed Mr. Abel Chivukuvuku,” he added.
In the note, the Angolan PGR states that only journalists Queirós Anastácio Chiluvia and António Festo, both of Radio Despertar, were accused, placing David Mendes, a member of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), who publicly also spoke about the subject.
On Sunday, the UNITA deputy wrote on the social network Facebook that he was also one of the visas.
“I became aware of a criminal participation made against me by Abel Chivukuvuko. I hope the CASA-CE leader is sure of what he is doing because the evidence I have against him could lead him to be the first opposition leader to respond for embezzlement, “warned David Mendes.
