Republican President, Rupiah Banda, has described the death of the late Ndola High Court in-charge, Japhet Banda as a robbery of a legal mind not only from the judiciary but the nation as a whole.
Mr Banda said this in a speech road on his behalf by the Chief Justice, Enerst Sakala, during the funeral service at Bethel City Church in Ndola.
Mr. Banda said the late Judge was characterised by hard work which prompted him to engage him on a three year contract after reaching a retirement age of 65 this year.
He said Judge Banda was a protector of human rights as was evidenced by his appointment to lead the commission of a probe into human rights abuses of the 1997 coup suspects which report was held in high esteem.
And law Association of Zambia President, Elijah Banda, said the death of Judge Banda was a loss to the association as the late Judge was a source of great wisdom and parental guidance.
He said he had on several occasions sought the counsel of the late judge on many issues of professional nature.
He said the association would do well to draw inspiration from the wealth of precedent which the late judge has left behind.
He said he admired the courage in the judge who responded to daunting tasks and handled them well because he set high standards of proof and sanctions which were serious and at times grave.
He said the late judge exercised impatriality even though cases involved a multiplicity of accused persons each requiring separate legal representation like the 1997 coup suspects case.
Mr. Banda said the late judge was a supporter of functions of the association on the Copperbelt as he helped in bringing together lawyers when there was need for association meetings to brainstorm on issues of common interest.
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May his soul rest in peace. :((
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
May His Honour’s soul rest in eternal peace.
Numbla 1…..RIP
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Men are appreciated mostly after their death. sad for Zed we have lost another competent man.may his soul rest in peace,my brother lest learn now to make peace with all for the time is near.
May his soul rest in peace. .May their souls rest in peace tho.
Pinkly dear,hw u doin?Compliments of da season
MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE
How about those pre term babies who lost their lives because there was no power?
Ba LT, I think you have to learn to report news the way it has to be reported. I don’t get the point at all. Some of us didn’t even know this judge had kicked his basket. That is what you, as a media neeed to report to us and not RB’s thoughts.. Get your brains up.
sorry!
Aren’t we suppose to see the JB the late judge’s pic instead of RB as affirmed by the LAZ guy EB? What a coincidence that all the chaps are Bandas!
LT its true shud have put the face of the late judge Banda not Nyama who couldnt even go for burial because the holiday. :(:(
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just as glorius band sung in their song ‘muleikalafye bufi mubepa” **==**==**==**==**==>:)>:)>:)>:)
LT should recruit reporters and not entertainers.
May his soul rest in peace. Ive known him since 1974 when he was magistrate in cb
MHSRIP :((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:(( Amama eeh, amama a Judge banga ine!! Nithandizeni mwe bantu eeehh, Mayo ine, mayo
This is a great loss to Zambia. We just hope there was no foul play by the plunderers and their accomplices. May his soul rest in peace.
Sad indeed. And when is your boring president RB start attending important funerals, always somebody reads speech for it. Maybe he is avoid to cry in public as usual? Even presidents can just cry if they are chilalalila like him.
Condolences to judge banda’s family.May his soul rest in peace
May the soul of Judge Banda rest in eternal peace. LT you should have Shown us the picture of the late Judge not RB please.
may his soul rest in peace!we ll miss you judge, the jokes ur committment to ur family and friends its really a great loss!We thank the Lord for the time we spent together and we know that you have gone to be with the Lord!
The MMD gvt must just pack and go. Surely how come the Head of State can have time to relax in Mfuwe while pipo in Luanshya are told to stop working. What a X-mas for LCM ????
Sad development indeed, Heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. May the soul of the departed rest in peace.
Happy Festive season to you all bloggers out there.
May his soul rest in internal peace 2008 has dealt us quite a blow all competent people have left us i wonder why the many liabilities the nation has dont go mwe
sorry meant eternal in #25
All are Bandaz: President- Banda, LAZ chairman- Banda and the Late Judge- Banda . MY LORD, MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE.I will pray for you to find a better place in paradise.
That is LPM funeral in the picture ba LT.
May his, late Banda, rest in peace and condolences to his amily the breaved.
However, according to “Mr. Banda said the late Judge was characterised by hard work which prompted him to engage him on a three year contract after reaching a retirement age of 65 this year”, I am suprised that he was still serving at 65 years old after retirement age of about 55 years if I am not mistaken. How I wish our old men can retire seriously and leave jobs for us the young ones so that we can also reach positions of High Court Judge in-Chief or whatever.
>:)It should have been our hopeless livivg Banda that died.
May His Soul Rest in Peace
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I think it is immoral for ANYONE to wish the President dead. Just because your hopeless, immature, arrogant, insensitive Sata did not win the Presidential elections; that should not warrant you saying what you said.
Even if you have no manners, please ask for BASIC manners – there are people who can help you. You will need them in life.
THEY WILL BE DYING CARELESS DEATHS ESPECIALLY WITH THE WAY THEY GET CORRUPTED. I FOR ONE WILL KILL A JUDGE WHO I KNOW HAS GOTTEN MONEY AND RULED IN FAVOUR OF THE ONE WHO IS GUILTY. JUST BEWITCH THE BASTARD AND ELIMINATE HIM JUST LIKE THAT.
IMAGINE SOMEONE STEALING MILLIONS FROM YOU AND JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN CORRUPT A JUDGE THE CASE GOES IN THEIR FAVOUR. KUCHILOWA AND ELIMINATE HIM TO SEE IF HE CHEWS THE MONEY.
OR WHERE THEY EXCITED OF THE NEW HILUX SURF AND FORGOT ABOUT ACCIDENTS.
Vote =; Kawambwa residents next time to avoid Cholera.
GRZ when are you going to say THANK YOU to president Hakainde Hichilema who wrote President RB Banda containing ways of improving our limping economy. It is sad to note that the Kwacha currency rate to the US Dollar has now surpassed or is about to where former President Chiluba left it with us in 2011.
Let us learn to say thank you any help that comes our way. After all, the MMD GRZ is the one that requested for help from the opposition with solutions to the Global/National Financial Crises that we are facing as Zambians and Zambia. **==
Judge Banda declared Dr Kaunda stateless. mhsrip.