SA lawyer defends Banda's 'fugitive' son

Young Banda, who is resident in South Africa, and not Kenya as previously believed, is vaguely connected to the transaction that led to the privatisation of the Zambia Telecommunication Company (ZAMTEL), which the government of president Michael Sata has since reversed.

The police want Henry to report to them. But he has not done so and has indicated that he will not because he and his lawyer Robert Amsterdam believe that he is a marked man. He has demanded to know the charge(s) that police want him for. But the police insist that they can only do that after they have interviewed him. They have gone through the motions of securing an Interpol red alert for his arrest. More recently there have been attempts to secure his extradition through the South African High Commission in Lusaka.