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Kitwe High Court rejects an application by HH to set aside a bench warrant

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UPND president Hakainde Hichilema
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema

THE Kitwe High Court has rejected an application by United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema to set aside a bench warrant against the opposition leaders because of conflict of interest among his lawyers.

Kitwe High Court Judge in-charge Catherine Mukungu in her ruling said she had noticed that lawyers representing Mr Hichilema, Shamwana & Company and their co-advocates were lead lawyers in the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) case which has dragged acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda to court for her continued stay in the office of the Chief Justice even after she had been rejected by the Parliamentary Select Committee.

Judge Mukungu has consequently asked Mr Hichilema to appoint a new lawyer who would have to make a new and appropriate application to have the bench warrant against the UPND leader heard.

Judge Mukungu noted that it was irregular and against the rules that lawyers representing the Law Association of Zambia could be the same counsel representing Mr Hichilema.

Mr Hichilema has been cited for contempt for commenting on the continued stay of Justice Lombe Chibesakunda in the office of the Chief Justice when she had been disqualified by the constitution because she had passed her retirement age.

Mr Hichilema has complained that he never received documentation on the matter and that this was published in the classified section of the media which neither he nor his lawyers saw.

31 COMMENTS

    • The chap decided to take his contempt and unbridled arrogant to the courts and now he has his tail in between his stinky arse and desperately begging.

      lets see if your *****!c tribal hauteur will prevail and save you.

      Now you have an idea who has the real power

    • Not all homo sapiens are sapient. In the first place how can the entire chief Justice take someone to court what justice will that person get?Secondly a private citizen is allowed to get hire any lawyer they want. Its not like Zambia has a large pool of competent lawyers to choose from.This is the most incompetent judgement I’ve ever heard and it is waste of the involved parties time. It’s not a hidden fact that PF has been dragging Mr.Hichilema to court numerous times in the last 2 years.The acting chief justice aka the Presidents auntie was never approved by parliament is is therefore illegal…We are fast becoming a fourth world country even devastated Zimbabwe is doing much better these days than we are.

    • Law of the jungle. What do you expect from the Panga Family? Anyway HH will prevail no matter what.

    • Panga Family is trying to promote war in Zambia. The security situation in Zambia is very fragile and so you PF !diots should be careful about how you manage the affairs of this country. You take advantage of people all in the name of “Zambia is a peaceful nation”. You will be shocked. The temperature is rising slowly, very soon it will be boiling.

    • The fact that the whole issue is politically motivated will render the Judge dealing with the case useless , un reliable and an instigator of breach of peace. I say so because any attempt to arrest HH and lock him up in police cells will spark riots at the time of heightened tensions in country due high cost of living being forced onto the masses by the irresponsible PF and their minions.

      To make matters worse, Kabimba’s presidential ambitions are rattling some prominent members of the PF and therefore brewing a lot of animosity within PF.As a result, Kabimba’s enemies, might choose to side with HH and tell their people to support HH to frustrate Kambimba and the cartel. If this happens, then Kabimba and his cartel have chance of achieving their ill dreamt ambitions.

      Viva HH and…

    • In the coming days, weeks and months we are going to witness attrition from MMD and PF to join UPND, now that MMD is dead and awaiting burial. MMD members who sane will join UPND while those disgrantled PF memebers because of Kabimba’s presidential ambitions will choose to support UPND to frustrate Kimbamba camp.

      I actually know 5 prominent PF members that have already started preparing ground to move from PF to UPND. Are you not surprised that HH ‘s team is briefed of any move that Kabimba tries to make against HH. In the Red Brick, police, and the army there are courageous men and women will to protect HH as their future sane President no what it takes.

      So any attempt by Kabimba camp to frustrate HH and UPND will be countered from within PF and government structures…

    • @Kasaka.

      I rarely miss educating these PF minions on line. If I have not commented on LT then I will have commented on ZR or ZWD.

      Lets keep imparting knowledge to these PF f00l to help not to commit suicide when PF is booted out in 2016. The are all CNPs.

    • The laws are archaic and need to be changed…50years after independence and you still live under colonial laws? Where is the pride in that? Just look at the blond wigs your judges wear,where is the intelligence in that? No wonder people still insult our race as inferior.Guess we are waiting for some Investor to buy us new wigs for our judges to wear.

    • The Chief Justice is apparently above the law as the beach is in that position illegally. I.diots like you and your PF are the ones that cause civil strife. Remember Zambia is one of the countries in Africa listed as a possible area of strife because of misrule.

  1. There is no such thing as bad publicity. As long as HH continues being in headlines and seen to be persecuted because of his stance against the idiocy of the PF government and as long as this continues to happen while the cost of living is high and people are starving….. well, my little PF minions, do the math. Right now there are riots in Chingola by miners and teachers are now complaining coz the government has started reducing their salaries in the name of ‘harmonising the payroll’ Once disillusionment from these two areas takes a stronghold and 2016 arrives while teachers and miners are still complaining on top of the fact that there will be no Sata, the little Mangango win will not matter then will it? Chaps.

    • If HH and UPND are becoming more and more popular as you put it, why can’t HH grow a pair and go and defend himself?

    • But his lawyers are failing him you muppet!

      This is what Justice Makungu said: ‘She said she would not condone the way Mr Hichilema’s lawyer was handling the matter and advised him to properly advise his client from now onwards’

      And for some strange reason you think these Lawyers are doing a good job. Unbelievable! Learn to read and understand articles. It does hurt to engage your brain once in a while!

    • My dear fellow Stirflow, if HH’s lawyers are not representing him well, he can always hire others as alluded to by the Judge because she has also raised an issue of ‘Conflict of interest’. This means, and am saying this slowly so that it properly sinks into your PF brain, it means he does not have to go defend himself the way you want him to. That is what lawyers are there for. Ok young excited boy?

    • @Dudelove

      Continue hammering these PF idoits. You are doing brilliant job to give them the enlightenment they never get from their stupid masters.

      HH and his team are way ahead of the PF minions on this case thats why the Judge is now ducking and diving using legal technicalities to make her self relevant in the eyes of her masters.

    • @Stirflow. Don’t waste your time trying to educate these UPND 1d!0t$ such as Dudelove and Wanzelu. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience! Even death would not cure them!!!

    • Thanks Wanzelu. Arguing with PF folk is not tough really coz i only have to use about a quarter percent of my vast intelligence to shoot them down. Mr. Niceday, that is an extremely tired joke. If you want I can give you a link to a website with millions of degrading jokes and you can apply them when telling me off. Am nice like that.

  2. Zambia is peaceful but this peace will soon leave us under the pf regime,there will be time when people will say enough is enough

    • @HAMS,
      I agree with you and the judges will have to pay for this mess. They can’t jump to the tune of HIV Kabimba.

  3. Wenzelu and other brain washed cadres, it’s generally a genetic disease that anything that has no political inclination is turned political. The trouble your leader has is purely jumping on anything that is happening to show he is better at knowing and speaking without taking critical analysis of the pro and cones of diarrhoea of the mouth and it’s implication the political, social, economy, cultural and relationships with the world. Hungry Hyena does not have any concerns about Zambia or anyone it’s about his political ambition to go to plot 1 . Whether bloodshed , extremist, hate or violence he does not care. Lied PF has sent cadres to train as militias when it was not true. If this was true USA or Britian may have known before with the best intelligence services. He is an alarmist.

    • No UPND supporters has been brain washed.But all PF minions have been brain washed completely. They have been turned into Zombies . Sata their leader is now a Zombie there by making Zambia the first country to ruled by a zombie president.

  4. there is NO WAY Catherine Makungu can jail HH because she was in first year at UNZA when HH was graduating

  5. Wanzelu na Dudelove ma T. They worship HH and think he is a superior human being just because he is rich and most likely their tribesman. Even if he cr@pped in the middle of Cairo road they would support him and somehow find a way to blame PF.

  6. when you briefly keep a neutral position and think outside politics, you can tell that Wanzelu, on average is intelligent than most us here. it may be hard to agree BUT ITS A FACT.

  7. should anything happen to HH in Bembaland, just know that a civil war has started. everyone who stretched their hand on HH, will be assasinated. take this seriously u fake judges from kitwe!

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