Frank Hofmann (right) at Chrismar Hotel in Livingstone during the launch of a book titled 50 years of local government in
Zambia.
THE Lusaka High Court has granted Patriotic Front presidential candidate Mayor Mulenga Sata an injunction restraining the party from stopping him from contesting the presidency on account of his parentage.
This is in a matter in which Mr Sata sued PF secretary-general Bridget Atanga and the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and wants the court to declare that he is eligible for election to the office of President of the Republic of Zambia.
According to a statement of claim filed in the High Court, Mr Sata also wants the court to declare that he is also eligible for election to the office of the president of the PF in accordance with the provisions of the party constitution.
Mr Sata further wants a declaration that the eligibility of the office of president of the Republic of Zambia is an evidential matter that cannot be determined as a threshold issue by the returning officer but is the preserve of the full bench of the Supreme Court.
He also wants a declaration that the eligibility for election to the office of president of the PF on grounds of the parentage clause is an evidential matter that cannot be determined as a threshold issue by the returning officer or electoral commission of the PF but is a preserve of the High Court.
Mr Sata said he would suffer irreparable and ruinous damage if he is prevented from exercising his constitutional right to contest the election for the office of president of the Republic of Zambia.
He said there have been false and malicious allegations allegedly calculated to disqualify him from contesting the presidency of the PF and that these have been attributed to senior party members.
In delivering his ruling, High Court judge Isaac Chali granted Mr Sata an injunction restraining the PF from preventing him from contesting the party presidency.
What a risky move on his part, just going to escalate an already volatile situation.
Poor baby cobra. Daddy must have whispered something in step-moms ears while frolicking in bed. Kaseba knows for sure where your mum was born. Don’t blame PF officials!
PF needs to stay in the jungle where they belong and not come back to world of the living. This is simply too much drama from one confused party.
@B R Mumba, Sr: Which risk are you talking about? Some of you retards are better keeping Ar.ses shut instead of saying things that don’t make sense!
BR Mumba you too much of an attention seeker…get a life
“………from stopping him from contesting the presidency on account of his parentage…..”
Judge Isaac Chali granted Mulenga Sata an injunction because he knows that the Zambian people know that styupidity is inherited!
With all due respects Bruv…injuction then what? Bwana, chi funika ni amend the National constituion on parentage clause…U think Muzungu Scott wouldnt want to vy for Presido too?
I thought it was a dream, so the die is cast:
>>mother vs stepson (mother shall rise against son and vice versa)
>>nephew Sampa vs Mukamfwilwa aunt (will this be a cleansing rite)
>>Son-in-law Mulenga vs Baponshi Bob
>>Umwipwa Miles vs Bashi Nono Uncle
>>sebele Kaseba vs mukulumunankwe shinono
>>brother Mulenga vs brother Miles (brother shall rise against brother)
>>gbm relative vs the close sata family (kaseba, mulenga, sampa, shinono)
What manner of greedy engulfs this family??!! Chineke…oh…abomination!!
PF is a confused party, full of confused characters. Kick them out once and for all.
All this works for nothing. No one will vote for you my friend.
#OneZambia
PFit’s high time we United. Stop these court issues and go for it. The usual don’t kabeba.
I want today to endorse HH for the 2015 Presidential bye-election.We have to vote HH.He will surely bring sanity to Zambian politics and we can breath new fresh air in Lusaka.He also has two years to work and if he fails in that time we will kick him out in 2016.GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
There is no competition this time around for HH. The PF was a personal shop for MCS and it has gone away with him.
Mulenga Sata realizes that what is up for grubs is the PF party presidency while the Republican presidency per se is a distinct and separate issue! For that, he is smart. But the PF party presidency isn’t going anyone’s way on a silver platter. It’s a power struggle that calls for political maneuvering. Mulenga may end-up being the unlucky kid who gets trampled-upon in the process. It is the law of the jungle in PF – only the fittest survive.
What drives him to contest the position of the PF Presidency?
He feels is the right candidate because his father worked so hard to kick the mmd out. not that he has the desire and plans for his nation. his taking the presidency like a mansion that his father left after his death.
I thought it was the lousy constitution that stopped him not his party? Anyway dog eat dog characteristics of Zambian politics.
Yakosa your friends are now campaigning and your still busy with the parentage clause.
Please,mulenga just forget u are not presendential material..Zambia is not a kingdom were when yo father dies u take…
Can anyone tell me if Mulenga Sata and the step mom are in good speaking terms? This shows confusion where the whole family wants to president.
I think mulenga needs to learn to follow before he can lead.
“Tafimbwa lubilo” goes the popular bemba adage.
Put him on a chain and send him to dog training!
There’s a saying which goes like “Umwana wansoka, na ena ni nsoka”. So maybe Mulenga has qualities of his father and deserves a chance.
You mean qualities of nepotism, tribalism, regionalism, being boorish, etc.? Those are not qualities of a good leader.
sad that u continue living in a hell city yet HH seem to be enjoying in paradise .
This ex- dog trader is mad! It was his father and others including Gen. Miyanda who were in MMD made that clause to stop Kaunda. The Cobra forgot that his children had a mother with a pink NRC!
Surely if this will continue, PF as a party is dead and buried………ooooh, PF is already gone. It is really sad for a Party that had shown alot of promise. This coming Presidential election will be the easiest for HH. There is no competition this time around for HH.
When God wants to destroy someone, he makes them mad first. That is what we are seeing today in PF.
He has been consulting with Miles Sampa to bring forgers from Matero to rectify is NRC.
Very funny. He shouldn’t forget to ask them to rectify his mother’s NRC as well.
If I were Baby Cobra, I would stay out of it. There is no legacy to preserve here, P.F and its vision died with King Cobra.
Didn’t see that handshake. Masonic handshake-
“SHIBBOLETH”
PASS GRIP OF A FELLOW CRAFT
Hope am right.
Zambia. Thought the Immigration department would have simply verified the matter in question. They know where his mother is from.
The Zambian Judiciary is full of the most suspect individuals. This case is bizarre. Injunction g the Party you want to head in gov’t is clear indication you are not in good terms.
He hasn’t even a hope in hell.
He can now afford to make donation worth K40 000….the silly spoiled boy is too corrupt for State House.
The Sata name is now synonymous with corruption and shambolic leadership.
With all these events some people still want to vote for PF. my guess! most of their relatives are in BOMA change of government means loss of jobs to them. I understand your pain