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ZCTU appeal to Judge Chikopa to examine his own conscience and return to Malawi

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The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions has asked government to send back Malawian High Court Judge Lovemore Chikopa to his home country, Malawi.

ZCTU President Leonard Hikaumba says the continued stay of Judge Chikopa in Zambia is proving costly for the Zambian tax payers.

“We are reliably informed that the Malawian Judge is still in the country, we would therefore like to appeal to government to consider asking Judge Chikopa to go back to Malawi as the tribunal for which he was appointed as not yet started sitting,” Mr. Hikaumba said.

Mr. Hikaumba has also made a passionate appeal to Judge Chikopa to examine his own conscience and return to his home country.

“As workers we feel, the expenditure that the country is incurring on Judge Chikopa is unproductive and therefore call on government to allow the Judge to return to his country.

The ZCTU leader was speaking in Lusaka this morning during a press briefing to review the first year of the PF government.

President Michael Sata appointed Judge Chikopa in May 2012 to chair the Justice tribunal to probe three Judges namely Charles Kajimanga, Nigel Mutuna and Philip Musonda.

The three Judges have however challenged their suspension in the courts of law thereby stalling the sittings of the tribunal.

Meanwhile, Mr. Hikaumba says the PF government still has a long way to go to fulfilling the election promises.
He said the public is too highly expectant adding that government should quicken the pace of delivering development.

He cited the challenge of creating jobs for the millions of unemployed Zambians as one where the PF government has not done well.

74 COMMENTS

  1. The  single sourced skeleton is obviously not such an eminent judge as surely he would have had cases to attend to back at home? He has spent more time in Zambia in the past few months than Ukwa who now does not see anything wrong with globe-trotting whilst state house is being refurbished by his relative Chikwanda.

  2. Just been promised another pay rise this January of 33% on top of my basic wage of
    £38 000
    Just to let you know my fiancé is on £30 000 a year
    Between us we are bringing home in excess of £4500 NET every month
    For those that are happy for us, that does not include my Nissan micra, his Ford Focus and our House which is worth almost £220 000
    On top of that we have furniture worth easily £20 000
    Amazing isn’t it?

    Thanks

    • It depends on the job you are doing.. That is not much in the UK with higher cost of living…Sure that is not the kind of money to boast about when overseas…there is money is ZED bwana. When did last visit?

    • Not to mean offence but seriously, I think Mushota you are not mentaly sound… that’s if you really wrote your above salary fimo fimo coz your IP seems different this time. So i will give you a benefit of doubt that some hater is using your ka ID, otherwise I don’t have kind words left for you, period.

    • Attention seeking little BOY last time your chav jock boyfriend was earning £50K now its £30K give it a rest, will you. Just piss off and go wank if you’re very bored.

    • #i think its a ‘she’. I’m happy to hear that a zambian is doing wel out there. May God continue blessing and dont forget to invest here at home too

    • Mushota u brag too much about living in Glasgow,the poorest city of the UK,l am inviting you  to London…l live in Russell Square. ln London,Camden and Westminster boroughs cant even consider you on their council housing units if ur annual net pay is less than £42.000. And what is a Nissan Micra? lts pipo like you who still dont believe that you are living overseas!

    • GBP38,000 per anum (ZMK -342,00000) and GBP30,000 (ZMK270,000,000). I make four times the combined figure in a month and I still live in Zambia!!! 

    • Ndeloleshafye ine. I’ve not left Africa and I get over K 450,000,000 (£ 55,000) pa. I don’t even have the qualifications you boast of or hold a very senior job. I think next time you should just humble yourself instead of being condescending. There are people you can learn from (even here in Africa).

    • With ACCA, CIMA, Master, Phd and white husband then u get 30,000 pounds. I thought she was far much better than average Zambians. My son drives a car worth that much.

    • I have always looked at the person calling him/herself Mushota as simply a bothersome gnat. What those of you who get her attention don’t realize is that this person doesn’t even live in the UK. When you submit a comment on this site, the internet identifies the geographical location of the writer. That is why if you are writing from the US or UK or wherever, the flag of the country you’re writing from will appear next to the name you’re using
      . This so called Mushota,’s flag isn’t from Scotland. This is the same person using aliases like MK, Jigga, WA Ku chipata etc. Ignore this hoax called Mushota please. Let’s talk sense instead.

  3. Even if you are a Sata PF supporter, surely this can not b e right. How can a poor country like Zambia be wasting money like this just to protect criminals like Mmembe and Nchito. Please Zambians, its time to wake up.

  4. The judge could be busy with files checking on alleged cases. He is not just seating. Michael is very smart. By the time he leave for Malawi, everything about the corrupt judges will be exposed whether the tribunal seats or not.

    • Imwe naimwe ba kwekwe, you mean there are no people in this country who can check the records. Does it have to be a foreigner to do that. You are the guys who voted for these thieves for lack of thinking beyond the bos I.D.I.O.T

  5. Judge Chikopa is surely doing something here in Zambia,believe or not!! Sata is beyond most of us,Sata is a strategist,a political giant. Just just just just watch the space.

    • Sata is beyond most of you, not beyond some of us,my friend.He don’t KUBEBA’d you, not some of us,bakamba.Be smart!

  6. This disease this peasant called mushota is suffering from becoming serious and irritating…….
    So that chikopa is being fed using tax payers money ?? This government probably has never heard of a word(s) called COST SAVING….Send him back till the tribunal starts

  7. am sure if this man stays in Zambia for the next 1 month he will benefit from the euro bond too,he knows the country has more money to spend on him at the expense of the poor Zambians. i wish everyone of us had an opportunity to enjoy free money mr chikopa. viva eurobond!!!!

  8. Mushota, pse spare us you meagre income. I earn US$15,000 p.m and my wife gets US$8,000 p.m from our employment income. Investments bring another US$20,000 p.m. Let`s stick to the issue at hand. What is your problem?

  9. Any in coming govt will come and set up COI to establish the real cause of bringing in a foreign judge gobling our megre resources without any benefit to the nation. There is something wrong with our judicial system to allow this to happen. Chikopa will not rid corruption in the judiciary, if any thing his continued stay without benefits accruing to Zambia constitute corruption on the part of Sata. An ultimatum is required for Chikopa to be in the country after which his stay can be met by other means.

  10. A farmer pleading with a tse-tsefly or flea to leave his cow alone will definitely get a deaf ear. A snake cannot walk but crookedly by nature. this is no ordinary judge. he is the one responsible for the black magic that saw us voting for satan rejecting God last year. he deserves to be paid a hundredfold. he is also capable of capturing the Mailon brothers.

  11. @KweKwe & Mwanamfumu. Good reasoning! Hikaumba should have first established what Chikopa is currently doing before calling a press conference. In fact he should concentrate on fighting for better pay for the Zambian workers he is supposed to be representing. 

  12. Mushota, Mushota, why are you so boastful of yourself, are you not ashamed, there people(Zambian) who have ten times or more what you are mentioning but they are just quiet, it is people to tell us that in U.K, there is a Mushota who is rich, in fact they would have mentioned your name in the media, not you praising yourself. It just shows that you come from a poor background ( You Villager)

  13. I hope he has work to do – but it is hard to imagine what work he would be doing without the tribunal sittings.

  14.  You should blame the three dirty downright corrupt Judges who challenged their suspension in the courts of law and have stalled the sittings of the tribunal. Isn’t this democracy eh? 
    One day you will thank Lovemore Chikopa; you mark my words!
    .

    • You are the most useless blogger we have. The three judges stood up for the people and all you can do is fart. Useless! So far they are innocent and so far Chikopa should have gone on leave until the matter was properly resolved in the Zambian courts, wachisushi! Even if the judges erred Chikopa has no right to keep on chewing my hard earned cash. 

  15. Ba mushota na kayongoli ka musungu!! Bakamileka before you know it. Besides you will be looking for the real thing – ichicafu chine chine soon. Stats show few cross racial relationship grow old together. when the euphoria of having a different colour partner is over, even the relationship reaches a dead end. This is nothing to be boastful about. Others have walked that road before. Mwilaibepa!

  16. PF cadres are just a bunch of fikopo. How do you support such i.diocity? What work can this fake judge be carrying out if it is illegal for him to do so? Sata is just a hardcore dictator who does not want to be challenged. He thinks he is always right.

    • Ba Zed Patriot, talking about dictatorships and ‘i.diocity’ when is the feeble minded under5 going to hold the next party convention? 

  17. Farmers, retirees, ZESCO bills, water bills and many other nkongolez and we can waste so much money on this man. Indeed this is Zambia.

  18. I bealive the thinking capacity of Sata and this so called judge Chikopa is the same. A let down for Lawyers and an achievement to the constables who can swindle an entire judge to dance to his tune.Stupid judge and a corrupt constable,how do you expect such a bully to fight corruption. Yakashwa ki yakayawa.

  19. mushota ni chichani chikushota mukati ka vibelo iwe mukazi iwe.chijkopa is making sure all corrupt activities being made by hyenas are swept under the carpet.watch my words

  20. People forget about Mushota she is just a cheap troll learning how to use a computer on LT. Her written english is very poor and her facts are missplaced. There are a lot of people in Zambia and in Africa earning far more that what she claims to be getting. Too many abortions ka Mushota now you can not even get pregnant. Your white grannie will leave you before he dies of postrate cancer.

  21. Cant believe zambians can be that gullibe,ati they are sure Chikopo is doing something because sata is a stategist.No wonder your country is so poor.What files can he access since he is a foreigner,awe sure this level of st.upidity calls for a oscar ward.

  22. Useless unions expecting the government to do everything for them! Talk of labour issues not things which have nothing to do with welfare of Zambian employees.

  23. For real this dude is still in zambia sucking taxpayers money when this government is failling to our own farmers who are feeding our nation. Some thing is wrong with this government, misplaced priorities government of fools pay farmers bakolwe imwe.

  24. .#32, 34 and 35. you are spot on. First and for most, Hikaumba has been highly compromised, it began with MMD which bought him. In fact, all Unions, have lost the direction to fight for the workers. They even opposed the minimum wage, I think the South African workers, were brave which decided to abandon the Unions and opted to confront the employers, head on. COSATU was paralysed and Mines were forced to upward income for miners and spread to all mining industry, later on to transports and everyone. I guess UNIONS are just milking workers without delivering or bettering the conditions. Hikaumba has served this could fourth term if not third after manipulating the ZCTU constitution. Zambian workers, wake up. Take a leaf from SA workers.

  25. I have always looked at the person calling him/herself Mushota as simply a bothersome gnat. What those of you who get her attention don’t realize is that this person doesn’t even live in the UK. When you submit a comment on this site, the internet identifies the geographical location of the writer. That is why if you are writing from the US or UK or wherever, the flag of the country you’re writing from will appear next to the name you’re using
    . This so called Mushota,’s flag isn’t from Scotland. This is the same person using aliases like MK, Jigga, WA Ku chipata etc. Ignore this hoax called Mushota please. Let’s talk sense instead.

  26. If this is what it means “Don’t Kubeba” then SATA will leave office as the most secritive president. This confirms some earlier notion advanced by ome bloggers that SATA is a leader of Yesteryear. His doing of things all point to that fact, Infact if it was not for a new despensation of democracy in Zambia we would have been already in deep trouble- thanks for multiparty democracy in Zambia.

  27. Hakaumba you are right about your concerns which you are advancing about judge Chikopa’s overstayed welcome in your country. He must do your countrymen/women a favour by ejecting himself from unnecessary transactions in your nation’s resources are forcilbly allocated for his lavish lifestyle. Anyone who has opposing views to your above views, is acting on preconceived views from sources with biased sweeping statements especially these recipients of handouts from PF. We all know that all unions across the globe are mirrors of capitalists interests, not true representatives of workers. But this does not erode your onus of stating facts and confronting shortcomings. Viva HH,UNPD. Peace to all Zambians.

  28. He should apply for asylum as a refuge. Manone! He doesn’t realise that he freeloading on the Zambian people. You start wondering whether he is of such a stature to chair the tribunal if he has made it a full time job- what happened to his day job.?

  29. What can you do if you have no president in statehouse Ni twalya again
    Free money but maybe since wynter is new justice minister may be they can manipulate data and arrest those guys

  30. yesterday at the court, HH hired many buses and and impoverished kaponyas to hung arround the court yard. After the case the man went all over town making noise with his thugs and whores. Was that necessary? Anyway the man never suffered for the money he misuses. Can you imagine paying all those minibuses and thiggish cadres.[-(

  31. @Tony Blair#49
    You are a frustrated pathalogical liar like your usual clonies and these slanders you are circulating and your usual trade mark of labelling innocent people as ‘holes’ and ‘thugs’ are a exactly what you and your kind are. You keep on jumping around like a fish in mad water without any piece of evidence you can use to substantiate your rubbish utterances about Mr. HH and his followers.Your pathetic assumption about your ‘Bemba’ ingrained feeling that you are entitled to self-righteousness is exactly what makes your immediate environment treat you in the manner that fits your personal traits. The majority of Bemba do not share your useless utterances and you are not their representative either. Viva HHHHHHH. Viva UNPD. Peace to all Zambians.

  32. @Tony Blair#49
    You little person with an impairment of reasoning and judgement, tell me what have are archieved thus far by insulting and assigning false demeaning identities to a whole generation of people and their leader? Why don’t you comment rationally on the on going infighting within the most adventurous short minded camp (PF)? They (PF) are already strangling each others’ throats over who should assume power from your president even long before his term is over. That is a total pack of clap and yet, on the other hand, you of all *****s have the courage to caste stones at Mr. HH and you lace your lies with your preconceived biased stereotypes. Oh dear, what sort of a yard stick are you measuring yourself against? Go to hell for all I care.

  33. Why waste time blaming this malnourished judge. blame it on the President. We all know that it is the President who engaged him and is proving a point that he is in carge. Shame on PF.

  34. Lusaka bitches have made Chikopa stay longer in Zambia. he is always pa Mayela in Kalingalinga. what do expect from achimwene.

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