The Anti Rigging Zambia Limited has lost a bid to compel the Electoral Commission of Zambia-ECZ- to register all eligible voters before the October 30, presidential election.
The organisation was seeking a declaration that the decision by ECZ to rely on the 2006 voters register is ultra vires to the constitution and null and void.
The Anti Rigging Zambia Limited had sued the ECZ and the Attorney General in the Lusaka High court, seeking redress in the matter.
It argued that the ECZ has the obligation to ensure that all those who are eligible to vote in the coming election are registered before the poll.
But Lusaka High Court Judge, Phillip Musonda, rejected the application saying it is not possible to prepare a fresh voters roll because of lack of time.
Judge Musonda also said Zambia does not have resources to immediately carry out such an expensive exercise in the remaining few days before the poll.
The Judge further pointed out that the court has taken judicial notice of the fact that the donor,the Treasury and the ECZ never anticipated the presidential by-election.
He said the decision would have been different if this was an election which was anticipated like the 2011 General elections.
He said the court also takes judicial notice that government went to the European Commission to request for two Hundred and Twenty One million Pounds to fund this sudden presidential elections.
Judge Musonda said there has been no willful neglect or serious failing on the part of the electoral commission of Zambia as alleged.
[ZNBC]
point well taken ba judge!!!we don’t have enough time to register now voters and later on have those who lost theres replaced!!! However, come October 30 we are in for a change!!!
VIVA CHANGE!!
Being the first one here i appeal to all bloggers to debate sensibly without straying or using bad language!
Too late you guys. MMD will register illegal voters if you do that. Sorry
#2 please don’t make look bad here! I am really trying to debate according to the seriousness of the matter!! By the way am First…TOO LATE!!!!
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
But MMD should not take people for granted, we are for change and change we shall get!!!
You PF hooligans ,old men are nice. RB is older than me bt he is very energetic in bed more than me and I tell u he is so loaded. I realised that younger men just dnt care abt their partner’s well being. They spend most of their time drinking beer and womanising. They come home late just to sleep. Age is just a number, as long as am satisfied!!
Vote RB!!!!
Great work Judge! I think this Anti Rigging is a rabid dog, just barking at anything in motion. Not surprising, its headed by PF lawyers- hope they went to the same law school other lawyers come from.
GO RB GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
#2 personal advise to you, The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Mr Sata addressing a rally in Kasama recently:”epo mfikile pano nshufwile po unyele icisushi pantu muli ne nsala elyo tamwikuta!”
That is representative of the syntax of the PF language!If u dont know how to insult u r out of place at PF!
Mwebantu, ine i surely think VJ had another agenda in SA, than the “so called medical” checkup!
Mrs. RB sureeeerr… u r the one who even pushed ba RB to stand instead of Magande.. u just want Amafu! I can never imagine ka 1st lady like u… Ma 1.
That typical of Sata
Well done judge!All security Chiefs put forces on Red Alert.PF seems not ready to accept defeat.I can fill it in the air it is almost palpable.Come in Mr HH.Move over stinking cobra!
#10 – correct
1 November 2008
RB – Plot 1 Independence Av. Ruling Zambia.
HH – Somewhere in Lusaka, making money.
GM – UNZA, learning political skills
MS – Olympic swimming pool, Longacres. Testing his canoe for the 3rd time. Why does it keep sinking?
Well done Judge. However, LT can you please help us to undertand what these candidates standard for? Where they differ and also their background on issues (education, health, economy, agriculture, mining, corrumption, internal and external security, relationship with Mugabe, etc. What they voted for and how many times, were they involved in politial violence at any time, educational background not only their executive positions held.
This request also applies to the PF-Post. We are fed up of personal attacks.
#11 Mune nakupapata uleke ukulemba fyabupuba pali ba Vernon. Nga cakutila tawakwata ifyakulemba pa internet uleikala fye mpaka ubupuba bobe bukapole pantu ulinokupapa nomba line. Iwe uli sakafye ba Vernon efyo bacita acquire mubumi bwabo fingi elyo fikankala. Wooooo we mpapa we, nensoni tawakwata, ukaye kung’anda bakaye kundapa ubushilu bobe limbi ukapola.
Guys it’s Sata’s time to run this country. Let’s just give him this three years and then HH. Infact HH is suppose to be Ba Sata’s vice but the guy is selfish. It will do alot of good for HH to be vice now and stand in 2011. HH my brother it’s not too late talk to Mr Sata.
#18 Talktime Phiri, we do not owe anybody the post of President. The best man will win. That is all.
Good or bad, he will be the chosen one of God, for Zambia.
So, vote RB because you want to, not because I say so. I know you want to.
Ok there is also talktime Phiri all easterners have been told to vote for RB. My friday stay with your RB.
as expected now MRS RB yashani iyo is that all you think, abt sex? am very sure you wldnt even be able to explain how it feels to have an orgasm!
Am back
IMWE BA #10, #17, You have made my day, cracked my ribs. Iam off Blogging for a while. I have got ANOTHER LIFE!
What is going on with Sata? He is again back in northern province, does he think he can win presidency by campaigning in one province. I think Sata’s thinkg is now retarded due to age. Or is it political experience
am 20 this year am I must be allowed to vote yashani bane
Judge Musonda zed has money imagine spending more than K70m pa chililo and sending VJ to south for unknown games. Please we want to vote so the the boat can reach plot one.
PABWAAAAAAAAAAAAAATOOOOOOOO
who will win theese elections????????/
Its K70b people.
latest;
RB chased from Kasama and only managed to force for a small rally in Mpulungu at the market.
The boat is moving Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sata vivaaaaaaaaaaaa…….PABWATOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ponyax tawakwataamano Sata mukote. ulimpofu
out of 3.700,000 million registered voters rb has as today captured 1.724,228 believe me these guys are dealing with numbers.remember what vj said about voting.so ba sata dont just say lusaka, northern,copperbelt,are key position.remember that a lot of mmd supporters are just quite they dont want to fight with those call boys.to win these election a lot needs to be done otherwise we will be just saying he tried.
latest information that ive recieved shows that kachibiya seat is going back to pf.congraturation ba sata 4 the efforts.
Howdy all! I’m the new kid on the block – how’s things going?
new kid on the block so you have just bought a ka lap top..welcome to the cyber world iwe ngwele
Keep on counting the days, we shall see, Titanic, or old RB music.
These judges, I wonder what precedence they want to set. I love the Anti-Rigging Ltd because they are opening up new legal areas which have never been tested by the law before.
#Ba Ole, its because they dont want to be fired once a new presido comes in. so they will do all sorts of gymnastics to offset the complainant. Just how many cases did levy lose? and how many were in his favor? we are watching.
cap 13 section 17 & 18 article 7 sub 1 (l)
7. (1) A person shall not-
(l) use government transport or facility for campaign purposes or to
carry voters to polling stations:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the President
and the Vice-President;
This part of the constitution MUST be AMENDED to level the playing field so that each political part ceases from abusing public property.
Fellow bloggers, lets face this logically, the Anti Rigging PLC asked for something that can be done by the govt but because they alway say there is no money, the have forgotten that Dora is being commanded or directed to release money for mansa airstrip. billions of kwacha mwee. Now coming to the voters register, why spend more money printing the extra 600pin knowing well that between 2006 nov and now a lot of elgible voters have relocated or died? so even me, am very far but my ballot has been printed and on top of that the extra yet they say dollar tapali? cant balance the equation.
If the Mungomba const was adopted before 2006, LPM was not going to win. Now i know why LPM was hesitant to accent the reviewed constitution as it barred him to use public machineray and he was going to lose terribly. I think we shud try the oppostion coz these guys have a proven record that they can sustain themselves apart from using the public property.
Donations, developmental projects are a thing the Mungomba constitution has talked about where annoucements for such are barred during the campaing period let alone ongoing projects. we definately need a new const by 2010
Why do we always have to print voters cards that expire with each election. Whats the point of holding a national registration card if it is not acceptable for voting. That should be the single secure document given to each zambian and it should stand well for voting purposes. the system can be reviewed with a little bit of thought then we won’t have to spend resources at each election giving our personal details to companies that can use it for telemarketing at some point in the future. What numb nuts run our country.
#40, I cannot agree with you more on this one. Imagine the NRC which has those important particulars being always sidelined by a voters card which doesnt make any sense.we had the infamous Nikuv card and now the mambilima biometric card.
shame on us. actually it shud be that as soon as a person gets the NRC,they automatically become eligible for the next availble election. The only thing needed to be in place is a vicious data base that shud deny a person from voting twice by maybe incorporating a bar code identical to the reg number that can be scanned and read easily.
MMD has the money to buy laptops for this purpose of scanning and simple bar code reader which are available at very
cheap prices. Imagine u go to vote at 6 and by 20 you have the partial results
#38 che guevara dont get exited with an organisation that was formed simply because of a bye-election. Those cases anti-rigging zambia is taking to court have no merit and those chaps know this very well. what they are looking for is publicity through the court so that they can be known and become a legitimate institution. All those lawyers are PF lawyers all of them hailing from one province surporting there tribesmate. Rigging does not exist in this country just check the demographics and tell me who naturally has an advantage in this election.
Hey guys out there,if sata satana wins the coming presidential by elections,i will cease to be a zambian.Why am I sayin this bcoz he can’t be the president of zambia,not in this 21st century.He should just go to his village and do politics of the soil,agriculture!
My friend you are Mistaken because Sata is the next President of this Republic, you might as well starting packing your things and declare yourself Malawian…
Ya! atleast on this thread there aRe sensible people.
VIVA SATA>>>> PABWAAAATOOOOO>>>>>>
This even makes it better. so Sata can now win
Kuumawa you must be dreaming tell me where sata failed during his miniterial position I think he is the best person to get plot 1.RB has a back ground of corruption,he has been fired so many times.MATEYO pls work hard you might be arrest RB soon.HH no political position held, i wonder if he knows ministerial functions.Atleast SATA can check each Minister very well since he has worked very well in these Minitries. Vote Sata.
View Poll Results: Who should be our next President
Rupiah Banda 7 25.93%
Winright Ngondo 0 0%
Hakainde Hichilema 12 44.44%
Mike 2 7.41%
Castro Chiluba 0 0%
Michael Sata 6 22.22%
Kenneth Kaunda 0 0%
Voters: 27. You may not vote on this poll
THE ONLY CANDIDATE MAKING SENSE THIS TIME AROUND IS SATA
#47 forget us Sata failed the marzaf project in chilenje terribly thats why its where it is, ask him how much money was spent on that project and why it was abandoned. in terms of corruption ask Sata who carried 2 billion in cash from the national assembly to kabwe for MMD convention. LPM resigned as vice president because of Satas stinking corruption. have you ever heard about Nakawala and pangas in chawama. ask sata who organised those thugs and armed them with pangas. My friend you cant compare Satas atrocities to RBs profile.RB IS THE MAN
Job well done the Anti-Rigging team.. For once Zambians have realised that the MMD are a bunch of tricksters, and need to monitored closely, caged early and warned before things get worse. Imagine why 5 pallets where left behind as if the courier did not know the issue at hand.
Lets watch closely till D-day. What is so worrying is, RB campaigning for Late Levy SC who wont carry on with his vision. Even the adverts about RB is on LEVY,LEVY. Poor imagine building for RB
PF Surpoters have now suffered a cold feet or is it fobia? two weeks before elections you are just talking about rigging. an election is won based on campaigns and not cryng faul before voting even starts. MMD will win eastern, western, northwestern, and lusaka province exept lsk district. So PF is only competing in 5 provinces, out of these 5 HH will take southern and MMD will come second there.HH might also take central while MMD will come second there again. PF will surely take CP by a small lead this time. PF will also take luapula then northern will be a battleground. THIS WAR HAS BEEN WON BEFORE THE BATTLE.
It is not a secret that us bembas are practically natural fools good in our mouth Diarharea (shikipolomya) only.We talk too much but with very little to show.Since independence we have failed on all moves but rubbish talk one after another one.Its not a suprise that tongas have more value in them and successful so are easterners who realistically have been ruling us in 27 years and now reemerging through RB.
We went tribal with our UPP under kapwepwe and the end was failure.This time around since 2002 we hqve been on it again.Look at what we are offering the nation in a bye election. Ba Sata of all the people as if we cannot produce a leader.We are fools to remain losers for along haul.
Kuumawa and anonymous I find your dreams a bit wild. Be warry that in your dreams may be that of you attanding a banquet at state house after RBs win chewing from a a T bone the size of your head , and only to wake up and find that you are chewing from your stinking shoe and having swallowed the whole heal and Licking your socks which see a wash in 3 months. That would be bad for you. So be careful with dreaming.
Vote for Real change and the man who can turn around the tables within the shortest period of time is HH. give him a chance and you will all appreciate just within the next three years he is going to perform wonders, believe me. Go HH HH HH HH HHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wise idea bosses
Sata, HH have no capacity to govern Zambia – Rupiah
#43, have you really sat down and read the constitution, cap 13 article 7 sub 1 (l)? This undue privileage given to the president and veep amount to misue of public resources. Fine they may be PF lawyers and hail from one province but i really see sense in what they are saying. Why continue discriminating would be voters every time by not simply allowing those who have become of voting age to enter into the fold? Mind you my vote will be wasted because am not coming home to vote. It doesnt just balance up with my logic, wasting air tickets for the MMD which you say NATURALLY will win?
MMD is full of pipo who would stop at nothing to get into power
#51 explain the logic of the extra 600pin ballot papers.If you really think with your brain and not your bum, tell me the damn logic of printing useless extra ballot papers which have just raised unnecessary alarm of rigging? mind you just 1 extra vote can make someone go to state house or completely miss the road to plot 1. so thik before you post your myopic thots
MMD is loads of Rubbish. pipo did you have a look at the headline for the Post yesterday, UNIP will not support MMD because they are corrupt but have instead opted to support RB. wheres the logic in this
Us on the CopperBelt will vote wisely, as usual. Nothing that you say will make us change our minds. So stop wasting your precious time trying to convince us that HH or RB are the right candidates. we’ve alredy made up our minds. MUKOSE!!!!! Pa BWATO!!!!
LT! where is my comment? Its surposed to be #63. Are you also joining PF like your colleagues at POST?
Ba #63, Bushe nimwebo ba RB/ UNIP?
Ba #64. Am a common man but of the 4 candidates, RB makes sense to me.2 of my comments have not been posted. Nimwe muleblocker?
Na LT mwaonaula! When you write about SATA & PF, the comments are not reflecting.
Patriotic Fool? How true is that posting up there? If its not malicious lies then someone shoudl talk to Uncle Sata because its not good to tell people like that….
Anti Rigging are serious but the ECZ have and will always have faukts in their dealings
The Boat is surely moving!!! Get on board b4 its too late. Ichefyeni not uku yifinya.
Make your vote on my opinion poll of the four presidential candidates at youthhivaidsinzambia.blogspot.com . If none of them makes sense for you, vote for the Hyena.
I agree with what Jinx is saying, get on the boat before it is too late, tapaba insoni HH RB Mulimbe PA BWATO!!!!
Jinx and Heavy D are right!!! Nineni ubwato nombaline. The rains are just around the corner.
amawala.. pachiboti!