Friday, March 29, 2024

Crack whip on other lawyers too, LAZ urged

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FORMER Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Edward Mumbi has urged the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) to extend its whip to other lawyers who are passing disparaging comments on the judiciary.

Mr Mumbi said in reaction to LAZ’s decision to write to Lusaka lawyer Rodger Chongwe reprimanding him over his recent public attacks on the judiciary.

He said that it was good for LAZ to rise above petty politics that was allegedly developing in the law fraternity because lawyers were held in high esteem.

Mr Mumbi said LAZ should also discipline Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Wynter Kabimba who had been issuing statements against the judiciary without stating whether he was commenting as a politician or as a lawyer.

“Such lawyers should come out in the open and state whether they are issuing statements as lawyers or as politicians so that people can know,” he said.

He said Mr Kabimba had been hiding in a lawyer’s jacket when issuing statements from a political point of view that lowered the standing of lawyers in the country.
[pullquote]“Such lawyers should come out in the open and state whether they are issuing statements as lawyers or as politicians so that people can know,” he said.[/pullquote]
Mr Mumbi said LAZ should have also talked about South Africa based law professor Michelo Hansungule who had been seen as an opinion leader for lawyers in the country.

He said that Prof Hansungule had been commenting and ridiculing the judiciary on many judgments when he was not even practicing law in the country.

And the Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) has advised other Church mother bodies to accept the court’s decision against former president Frederick Chiluba’s registration of the London High Court judgment.

ICOZ president Reverend David Masupa said yesterday in Lusaka it was wrong for the Catholic Church and the Anglicans to accuse President Rupiah Banda of having secured the courts decision on the former head of State. .

He said from the constitutional provisions it is clear President Banda is not responsible for the decision of High Court Judge Evans Hamaundu.

Rev Masupa said even the decision not to appeal against the High Court judgment has nothing to do with President Banda because that is a responsibility of Attorney General.
[ Times of Zambia ]

18 COMMENTS

  1. I have come to notice that this LT online news is actualy a PRO MMD news forum for what ever reason 95% of all news reported is so for MMD and any opposition news is always negetive stuff .
    i thought having the times of zambia and daily mail was enough and now we have LT this is bul@#$it

  2. #1 thats the same reason i rarely blog on this site anymore,reading LT is as good as buying Times of Zambia

  3. i concur with you mudaala!
    This LT will only report wat MMD are doing and comment rubbish stories on the Pact front.
    Wen something is wrong, people shud comment and it takes a prudent man to see error in his ways to acept correction/reprimand from other people. I dont favor MMD or the Pact but i comment on anything perceived to be human societal expectation.

  4. LAZ has ceased to be professinal. They are getting instructions from caders. Shame on you Lungu you mean you can’t stand on your principles, you have to be told what to do by a cadre. Are you not supposed to know what to do

  5. This Rev is mad and i wish he had passed through UNZA. The only simple reason our judiciary can neva be indipendent is because judges ar appoited by the president and they can nea go againist him or risk being fire. Simple!

    This Mumbi is also a fool. what could have happened if the SATA he supported had won ellections?

  6. LT, hope you guys dont realise when its too late. Practice journalism and not caderlism of the MMD. Soon you will lose all your regular bloggers and you will be reporting to yourself.

  7. I have just realised what others are saying about this site.I looked at the stories and just from the headlines it is clear that this is a pro MMD site.Gentlmen i am beginning the exit those disgusted like me let us leave this site to Dickson Jere and friends from the OP.Just one last comment.OP has surely gone to the dogs even lay pipo like me can read them like a book

  8. I have never blogged on this site, though i am a serious reader of all the bloggers. But mwandi chacilamo, Lusaka times is not professional. They are too biased to the MMD. I am also stopping visisting this site

  9. am glad that a lot you people are now realizing what i saw long time ago. LT is useless paper done by useless people and for the useless people. all is about mmd this and mmd that.

  10. Lusaka Times you are fond of plagiarism. Can you train your own reporters to be sourcing news for you if you cannot employ one. Are you a subsidiary of the Times of Zambia? You cannot even be embarrassed of yourselves.

  11. People – let us not be too quick to judge LT like Hamaundu did with the London judgement. I think we should allow LT to redeem themselves by being more balanced. The bias is too much.
    Hey LT Editor: Help yourself by proving you are non-partisan.

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