The Supreme Court has sent back for re-trial to the High Court the case in which Lusaka Province Patriotic Front (PF) Chairman, Geoffrey Chumbwe, who lost the Chilanga Parliamentary seat, had appealed against the High Court’s decision of upholding the election of Keith Mukata as dully elected Chilanga Member of Parliament (MP) after he petitioned the seat.
Acting Deputy Chief Justice, Marvin Mwanamwambwa, who sat with Supreme Court Judges Florence Mumba, Gregory Phiri, Munyinda Wanki and Elizabeth Muyovwe said the case was being sent back for re-trial at the High Court before another judge because the High Court did not resolve the disputes between the two parties and did not give reasons for its decisions in the judgment.
He said the High Court should have made explicit findings about the truth over the 55 bags of cement which are in dispute between the two parties whether Keith Mukata donated the cement to the electorate as alleged by Chumbwe or were bought by the two cooperatives.
Justice Mwanamwambwa said the trial judge should have made explicit findings about the source of the disputed bags of cement that were used to construct a slab at a storage shed hence ordered for a
re-trial before another Judge at the High Court.
The PF candidate for Chilanga Parliamentary Seat in 2011, Geoffery Chumbwe, had asked the High Court to nullify the election of Keith Mukata as not dully elected Member of Parliament for Chilanga Constituency after he lost the seat.
Bafikala aba bakali kufuna ma By-erections
@King
What on earth are you saying in English please?
Thanks
@Mushota- King Fisher is actually insulting you as an over-rated scumbag.
Kaseba is back in Zambia. She had an interview with BBC yesterday.Did she come back with Sata or not? If she came back with Sata ,did any one see them at the airport.? Any pictures or ZNBC clip of their arrival in Zambia?
Sata is still AWOL probably dead.
Well done PF. Nullify it so that UPND can bag it up quick.
@Nostradamus
where are you??,,,,,, here is your favourate laughter from your Sata`s pf cadres!!!,,,,, opening the mouth to the maxium limit!…
Wanzelu,
A reliable source has said that Sata is still in South Africa. He has never come back and those photos of Miles are imposed upon Zedians.
Hope its not Kabimba or Chikwanda wearing a mask of Sata to dupe the clueless like Mushota endorsed Saulos cadres!
@Skeleton
kekekekekeekekek! great comment,,,, and on point,,,,,,, 30days no activity shuwa???,,,, this is not normal for your Sata and his PF,,,,,,,,just imagine how many swearing-in ceremonies we would have witnessed in the last 30days,,,,,,, someone must be DEAD! indeed
Hilarious.., Mushota can’t understand @King wrote.., one wonders what language Mushota is well versed. Mushota’s English is well, mediocre to say the least.., and going by the name Mushota, one would think @King’s words would be Mushota’s preferred lingua!
@Wanzelu
Can you please grow some inches of maturity ? This Sata talk of yours is becoming boring.Why can`t you just stick to topics for once ? Your cheap politics will end up scaring even the little followers you have.
@Ndobo, Kekekekeke, look laughing like amahule. Real men like Putin or Sata never show teeth when laughing.
These Kabimba-coffin-carrying PF , they are preparing for Parliamentary by-Erections, when others are already filing for Presidential by-elections.
What kind of laughing is that?? If it was women, we could say they copy from Kilistina Kaseba, but men ukuchensa like that!!? may have copied from those 2 boys pardoned in Kapiri Mposhi for fornicating on each other.
Wanzelu stick to topics cheek allah.Why do you always bring the gossip your read on your Zambian watchdog here?
@Ndobo.
Me , you and several others are skeptical about Sata ‘s health and his where about. There is still a mystery surrounding Sata ‘s departure to Israel. He sneaked out in the dead of the night and the government lied that he sneaked in the dead of the night.
The only other President who sneaked out the country that way was Malawi’s Bingu Wamtarika. They tried to hide his death but some one from within let the cat out and the whole nation was informed.
As for Sata I am not convinced he is fit and well. If he is fit, then why has it taken him so long to swear in important office bearer and yet swearing in people is what has characterised his presidency? Its unprecedented.
The fact that government kept his trip to Israel a secret speaks volumes.
TRUTH BE TOLD,SATA IS…
@Ndobo, please stop wishing our Sata an expiration. First watch 3 Chanda Chimbwi episodes, and you will realise that we need 3 more of the Sata’s. So sansetional.
Truely if you look at this week pictures, you may say “nabakaye tushako”. But Kabimbwa has strong witchcraft, ni no messy Tate, ati uwalowa Sata alowela limo.
One evidence to show that SATA is dead is the fact that, when they lied that he left for South Africa to see his son, nothing was said about who was to be acting president because Sata was not in Zambia. They avoided to make the same mistake they made when they sneaked him out to Israel.
Any way lets wait and see if Sata will come out to campaign for the Magongo by elections as he enjoys campaigning. If he does not show up guys, then that will be the last nail in his coffin.
They are trying hard to deceive the Zambians so they consolidate their power not knowing that we are watching them closely.
@ Mushota – He says if he wanted to kill himself, he’d climb on your ego and jump to your IQ,
@Wanzelu, I think you have hit on something. It is a fact that people dont want to accept the truth becoz it will devastate them. I am also thinking that the Sata who was facing downwards towards his sick son in hospital in SA is a Sata lookalike. Imagine the way Sata likes yapping he would have yapped something already, but since that man is only a lookalike they can’t risk to let him speak and will not get a full frontal picture like the way his wife posed. I suspect that Mmembe and Nchito have concoted a plan to clone Sata, we may just hear that he some disease that affects his throat so that he doesn’t speak but will be paraded for photos.
His supporters should tell us why he left the country without a President which is an abrogation of the Constitution. As a taxpayer I need to…
Let it go brother Chumbwe.It is just a few months to go before the next elections in 2016.You will easily win it in the next elections i.e if you will be adopted.
You got it wrong the by elections is in Novemeber
You got it wrong the by elections is in November
November ? Are you also one of those hoping and dreaming of pre-mature presidential and parliamentary election ? Sata Won’t die now.Don’t even waste your time on such fantasy.You better start campaigning now.Once you sell your vision to the people you don’t need to bank on a state funeral to do the work for you.Not everything comes easy in life.
The spirit of induced bye-elections is Back.
Looks like sending back of things to the lower courts is the new escape button for the supreme court under PF political siege. They all look addicted to it now. The high already decided on this case, it’s your turn supreme court, can you be decisive for one rather than hit the exit button
The highest court in the hierarchy and its decisions shall always stand any where in the world. Common Law jurisdictions are mostly binding as well as persuasive.
Nevertheless, unless in Zambia where a lower court in the hierarchy can squash the decisions of the highest court. As far as I am concerned, PF govt and its panga wielding cadres are squandering the money. Even if elections are budgeted for, but the money can effectively be used in improving the maternity ward at UTH where our mothers and women are giving birth on the floor. 20 a day, babies at UTH are delivered on the floor and this should send a chilling effect of how PF doesn’t mean well to its citizens.
The three arms of govt in the PF regime are dependent and this is DICTATORSHIP as an entrée. Tired of PF shenaniganism.
Not the best year for PF in terms of court cases! Remove Wynter Kabimba, as he has never won a single case in his life. You will then need to eject Mutembo Nchito and replace these scumbags with intellectuals in matters of law, there you have it!
chuumbwe your days are no more attracting such rubbish as news worthy. just stop wasting your resources for non issues. we are just a year away from election year you are still petitioning. ask your brother kambiba what pf politics are. he is now leaking his wounds like a dog from a fierce battle fighting over a bitch. even if a bye election were to be held there to day you will still get the same result.
imwe ba LT what are you moderating? my comment is very neutral, 1diots
LT ban this immature adult.
LT ban this immature adult
supreme court can lick my ass
@ … Chief Bootlicker, spot on.
‘The Ghost Worker President, The Acting President, The dysfunctional Vice President, The Lost and Partisan Mr Speaker, The Acting Chief Justice, The Acting Deputy Chief Justice, Fattening Ministers….and last but not least, (Honorable?) useless MPs…..’
Can we really expect any function from this state of affairs?
iwe,,,, leave late Sata alone to rest in peace!,,,, your Sata must be DEAD!,,,,,,,, i can only change my mind if i see him conducting his usual swearing in,,,,,, other than that,,,, the man is DEAD!
just waist of time n efort y cant u jst let it go my friend moreover Mukata is more inspiring than u Mr Chumbwe.
Keith fell for the prestige of being a Minister but failed to convince the PF to withdraw their petition. How young people can allow themselves to be used and then damped like a rug.
Wanzelu ulibe nzelu zooonaaaa!coma you hate sata chachine ni we conto mulimba mbwa.
iwe,,,, leave late Sata alone to rest in peace!,,,, your Sata must be DEAD!,,,,,,,, i can only change my mind if i see him conducting his usual swearing in,,,,,, other than that,,,, the man is DEAD!
Mr Chumbwe, forget about this case, besides Hon. Keith is working with the PF and 2016 he is standing on PF Ticket as for you will give you a ward in Munali Constituency.
@Village Chicken – you left out Acting Attorney General, Acting Solicitor General, Acting Judges and I suggest we put acting MPs were there are pending bye elections whose cases are @ Supreme Court
This comedy is not funny. How can we have comedians themselves be laughing. It does not work like that. Comedians have to seem serious to be taken seriously as comedians.
It is about time they were nullified.
Wanzelu, the fear of mr Sata has destroyed your well being. Anything is Sata. Where are your friends from CIA and MI5 from ngombe ilede? Surely you choke with lies, hate, envy and hallucinations. The article did not mention Sata at all but your fear and preoccupation of mr Sata always makes you one of the worst person whose contributions clearly shows your upbringing is deeply rooted in envy. Hatred and such people like you makes more people become so determined to see your UPND remain in opposition as long as it takes. Maybe you are so deluded that Andy the man of people was wrong to work with people across the country by reaching out . This is what makes the current crop of under 5s political mercenaries fail to articulate. Masoka managed people across the all parties of Zambia as MD.
@Pafwenamwine
As your name suggests SATA alifwa kale mune.
Pafwenamine what ever you call yourself,May correct your thinking that Mazoka was liked by many Zambians even those from Luapula Northern and copperbelt.The 2001 elction results shows that the pipo from these provinces I have mentioned above never voted for Mazoka and yet Mazoka won that election which was stolen from him.This marked the beginning of Zambias polarization after the other tribes from the former Barosteland realized that the counterparts from the Eastern Rhodesia accept those from Eastern province voted for there self appointed candidate Mwanawasa who was partly Lamba.Take note that southern province gave Chiluba close to100% votes in 1991.After one term in office You rejected Mwanawasa because he proved to be leaning towards the his fathers tribe lenje,He then poached votes
my people stop waisting your precious time exchanging words with
@Wanzelu
the man is a hired gun by the devil himself paid by HH.cant u just see his language the man has no regard for anyone more espacilay those who diasgree with him,he opens his mouth anyhow with no sense of responsibities.but dont blaim him those are demons working in him and iam sure sometimes he fails to undastand himself why he is driven by so much hatred and envy.where on earth can a normal human being have that kind of hatred against his felow being? he is under a spell from the underworld,may God deliver him before he dies in sin.he once said “him an oxford dictionery is much importand than the BIBLE “so u can see a person you are aguing with for him hatred character asassination they all politics.
@seniormostman
Thanks man for following me. Your views are welcome though I must warn you never to use God ‘s name in vain. How can you involve God to support the PF regime that lied and still lies to Zambian daily.
Are you not ashamed to emulate Sata who lied to poor Zambian that he will rule Zambia according to the Ten commandments? Is he ruling Zambia according to the bible now? If that was the case , he would have let his people know that he was leaving for medical treatment to Israel instead of sneaking in and out of Zambia.
Please stop supporting PF’s wickedness.
from UPND territories thus Central Western Parts of Lusaka and North western provinces.Thats how UPND shrinked.After the demise of Mwanawasa and coming in of Lupiya Banda most Zambians voted for Lupiya following Mwanawasa’s legacy,but still the Bembas still voted for Sata.Lupiya won the election.If bembas were the majority Lupiya nad Mwanawasa wouldn’t have won.Currently the situation has changed the 2001 mazoka map will repricate it self.Thats why William Banda told you that the wind is blowing towards southern.I for one how is mixed blood I don’t find such politics funy.I truly believe Zambia will start to develop when we change to feuduralism like USA even south Africa has a similar system,then all tribes will respect each other.
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