Former Executive Chairman of the Task Force on Corruption, Max Nkole, has accepted government’s decision not to renew his contract.
Mr. Nkole told ZNBC news that he will now take time to rest after a taxing job at the Task Force.
He said he was preparing handover notes which will be given to Anti Corruption Commission Director General,Godfrey Kayukwa, who has replaced him.
Mr. Kayukwa will act as Task Force Executive Chairman until a permanent replacement is found.
Secretary to the Cabinet, Joshua Kanganja, announced on Tuesday that Mr. Nkole’s contract of employment had expired.
And Caritas Zambia Director, Samuel Mulafulafu has said the sudden termination of former Task Force on Corruption Chairman, Maxwell Nkole is in bad faith.
Mr Mulafulafu said the removal of the Task Force Chairman is not for the country adding that it is retrogressive to the fight against corruption.[quote]
He told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that it is not clear as to why Mr Nkole had to be dropped at a time like this.
Mr Mulafulafu said that with this development, it would not be surprising if government dissolved the Task force altogether. He said the dropping of Mr Nkole is likely to slow the corruption fight in the country.
Mr Nkole recently instructed Messrs MNB Legal Practitioners to file a notice of appeal against former president Frederick Chiluba’s acquittal.
His contract has however not been renewed and he has been replaced by Geoffrey Kayukwa, Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with immediate effect for administrative convenience until further notice.
ZANIS
You did your best man good luck!!!!
You should not be scared by accepting what Presdo has suggested,tell us what we don`t know so that we can be behind you…..tell us what GRZ is doing behind the scenes. Anyway,nambala 1…..
I see the United Nations has taught you well where diplomacy is concerned Mr Nkole.The issue of DPP is nonsense to say the least.Some loser was claiming Mchenga is more enlightened than you i almost cried after looking at your CV.Good luck BABA,Bwezani will one day regret this
mr big Mr Mulafulafu says he dosnt know why his contract was terminated well even a child can understand that it expired you dont keep people in the job just because the people like it. we are not dealing with reality here people one has a contract and if it expires its up to the appointing authority to do as they wish, people are given some sort of grace period after the contract expires in that period you should prove why you deserve and extension and am afraid Mr Nkole failed to do this.To make matters worse he wanted to go into cases that evenLMP dropped on the so called national security issues
Good redunce. The man was clinging on the job for his allowances. The cartel he formed with the Nchitos and Mmembes has come to an end. Lets bring sanity to presidency.
For first time. the government has acted decisively,this man was misleading the nation through propaganda while siphoning huge allowances.Congrats RB .The nation wishes to know how money was spent at the task force.
We wish you well we shall remember you as the man who didnt secure Chiluba’s conviction on cue…may the sun always shine behind you and the road rise I up to meet you..may you return to your 13,000$ because the $3000 you recieved is in your own words nothing…good luck
BA NKOLE HAD NO CHOICE. CONTRACT EXPIRED KWASILA! NOW YOU CAN REST FROM POCKETING $22K PER MONTH FOR SO MANY YEARS. JUST EAT QUIETLY BIG MAN!
Nkole you failed to convict chiluba for 8 years, it was just inevitable that you accept the Govnt decision otherwise what else can you do? Aristoto once said ” If you were about to be raped and you knew there was no way out simply sit back, relax and enjoy it”. How can you honestly spend $40m chasing $500 000 for 8yrs with the support of the president(LPM) and fail to come out with anything during the 8yrs? An appeal on such cant change anything lets just accept it.
Nkole expect to be arrested and charged for abuse of office by RB, Chiluba and their thugs. Well done
wat abt the contract of the chief justice huh? u r joking my friend, this is not abt the expired contract, its abt the appeal he lodged with the high court against the aquittal of Chiluba period!
Poor nations have no direction to any thing but waste tax payers money ;;someone must be made accountable to the lost resources on the so called TASKFORCE ;that is why we are always behind no development sinking into poverty everyday to me iam dissappointed with the whole issue;;;
#11, DIRECTION IS THERE, GIVEN BY DONORS, TO WASTE MORE AND MORE MONEY ON ISSUES NOT OF PRIORITY TO MAJORITY OF ZAMBIANS. ITS A SHAME!
Iwe Nkole; It is not a matter of renewing the so cold mather **** contract .
You have been FIRED !!! Go to the village.
Govt is convinced that Mr Nkole did not perform according to its expectation. You can never change a winning team. Though govt had no replacement for Mr Nkole, it decided to go ahead not to renew his contract. The new man, Mr Kayukwa will find it very hard to perform if he decides to go ahead with the appeal over Chiluba’s acquittal, because there are only a few days remaining before the expiry of appeal. The none renewal of Mr Nkole’s contract at this crucial time is a blow to the Task Force. Govt might as well disband the Task force.
we are still waiting for the issue of sakala and chitengi. bakote, they are supposed to be big farmers in some village. their time in courts has already passed.
who is kayukwa and where is he coming from?, anything special about him?
Some of you are fired up over Nkole’s performance but I think his interview with Muvi TV gives a better a more sound analysis of what the man stood for regarding his assignments. I wonder why Muvit TV brings these programs so late at 23.00hrs!!
You should have sided with the people of Zambia and not the mafia(mmembe,nchito)
Here are some excepts of interview. Nkole ”And the court said then that either party to those proceedings can actually appeal. The court gave the right to either party either the state, Mr Chungu including Dr Chiluba can make an appeal on this matter. The acquittal for us it’s the decision of the court, which we respect and we have the freedom to either appeal on it or leave it as it is and that’s how we are looking at things. Subsequently, I have given instructions to MNB Chambers who are the lawyers who have been conducting the prosecution of this case all these years to say that if there are good grounds of appeal, we should go ahead and make that appeal.
Phiri: On the same aspect of appealing Mr Nkole, people have argued that you do not have the mandate, that mandate that has to come from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Nkole: They are arguing out of ignorance. In my briefing notes upon my appointment, I sat with the President and he explained to me how he expected me to work with the DPP, how he expected me to work with the Attorney General. And he defined what should be the role of the chairman of the Task Force against corruption. He did underline that we have a collaborative relation with the office of the DPP and Attorney General. He never said I should take instructions from the DPP or the Attorney General for whatever we do because president Mwanawasa wanted to be very distinct about the role of the prosecutor and the…
Mr Nkole; dont try to hide behind the so called contract which we did not know previously. The fact is clear and simple to understand; YOU HAVE JUST BEEN FIRED by RB. Thats all. What contract are you talking about. We worned you and you did not seem to understand. WE need CHILUBA and we want to keep him as our former President. It is inevitable.
So go to your vilage where you came from and play that game with your vilager friends. We LOVE CHILUBA.
THE CONTRACT EXPIRED OR IT WAS TERMINATED? FELLOW BLOGGERS I CANT GET IT??
RB disband the TASK FORCE and let it fall under ACC period. Good thinking RB for realising that we needed legally instituted institutions to fight corruption and not illegal ones. ACC and DEC could have carried this job well with the amount of money pumped in. And let us fight corruption objectiveky by coming up with better policies and not targeted corruption fight. Let everyone that is corrupt be investigated. Mr. Mulafulafu should know that once a contract expires and no renewal then it is either one did not perform to satisfaction like in the case of Nkole who has failed to convict FTJ or there is no need for that position.
Speak against FTJ and RB will use his powers to hack you down. No MMD MP can today stand and critised the unwarranted acuital and have it easy. They too will face the boot just like Max. SHAME RB SHAME ON YOU.
This is clear hypocrisy on Rupiahs part! The Chief Justice’s contract expired way back and he is working! What sort of B Sh**t is this? Move with the same supersonic speed on Mathew Sakala, we are tired of tired brains puling the train called Zambia.
Bakaponya on the blog
Goodbye Max Nkole. One wonders how this same man will handle those three cases that he is facing in the courts. Namely game meat, land etc. Power got too much to the man’s head. In life we should learn to be humble. This man wanted to fight the BIG WIGS and have his way minus following procedure. The TASK FORCE on corruption made a lot of these guys too BIG for nothing. They thought they were more superior than other law enforcement agencies. After the acquittal there was a lot of irrelevant TALK that lead to this chap to change his mind. Max Nkole welcomed the acquittal at first if you all remember until he was reminded later thru the POST that he must appeal . Its this changing of goal posts that has made the whole process foolish and useless. REST IN PEACE. Take care man you look SICK
He didn’t want to mix the two roles so he said the chairman of the Task Force will be solely responsible to carry out investigations and then I am going to give him a pool of lawyers to work with. Should the matter require that it should go for review to the DPP, the chairman refers the matter to the DPP and that is how we have operated. I work very closely with the office of the DPP together with the Attorney General and all these cases we have done in London and prosecution of cases we have done here we have done and I have done it with full disclosure both to the Attorney General and the DPP including this particular acquittal.
Phiri: What is your reaction listening to latest information coming through that the DPP has given instructions that you shouldn’t proceed with the appeal? He feels that there is need to study the court ruling.
Nkole: Well I think it’s a question of semantics I am not sure that he is supposed to…I think he has advised. He gave advice that he wanted to look at the judgment so that he can give his own opinion. But that’s not the way we operate, how we have operated in the last six years is that our prosecutors prosecute these cases and if these cases are appeallable, we make a decision, a management decision at the Task Force that we should appeal. That’s how we have operated. I personally do not think president Chiluba’s case is anything special that our own prosecutors or indeed…
I personally do not think president Chiluba’s case is anything special that our own prosecutors or indeed myself cannot make a decision that we are going to appeal. And it’s from that premise that I wrote a letter to MNB chambers. I said well it looks like there is an acquittal here but according to the advice you have given me, there are grounds to appeal I would like you to go ahead and in the meantime let me inform the DPP that we are going to go ahead with the appeal, so he was informed.
the problem with african governments is that they feel threatened by anyone who does not share their opinions. i lyk your bold stance max.
Phiri: Are you going to take his advice on this or not?
Nkole: Advice to appeal we have already appealed. As a matter of fact, I shouldn’t even be discussing the merits of our grounds of appeal right here because we already lodged in the papers. As of this afternoon, the clerk of the High Court has already accepted the documentation. It is already in so it’s not an issue now and if I try to make any comments on our appeal strategy it will be subjudice. I would rather not make any comment on this matter and it’s a matter that we gonna have to deal with internally between my office and that of the DPP. But in terms of legality of whether we should appeal or not, the appeal as already gone through.
MWANAWASA LEGACY = HE DISCONTINUED KATEBE KATOTOS CASE HIMSELF FOR SECURITY REASONS. NOW WHO IS THIS ANIMAL NKOLE TO WANT TO START IT AGAINST HIS MASTERS WISHES…….HE CANT CHALLENGE ME WITH IMPUNITY LIKE THAT. ANYWAY HE DID NOT HAVE A CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT REALITY.
Phiri: Are you able to walk us through some of the grounds that you feel this case has to go back to court?
Nkole: Well not exactly, I would rather maybe we don’t discuss the grounds of appeal right now especially in view of some of the political interests that are being expressed right now in the Chiluba camp and among some of our own government officials, I would rather not. But I think that our statement is that we have already filed an appeal, as of this afternoon it’s gone through and whosoever wants to be party to that appeal is free to come and join us.
Phiri: Do you think this issue is coming up maybe because of the way the Task Force was established? People have argued really that your body is basically illegal.
Nkole: You know Ken, president Mwanawasa invoked and you can read this on your own Article 61 of the Constitution of Zambia in creating the Task Force. And that Article 61 states that the President of the Republic of Zambia shall have power, one to create and to dissolve any office within the land, two to appoint and disappoint any other person that he wants and in his appointment letter president Mwanawasa cites the provision of the Constitution to say in the exercise of powers vested in me as president of the Republic, I hereby create the Task Force on Corruption, which will be headed by a chairman.
I don’t know where some of the people which law school they went to…I went to the University of Zambia and I know that when the president invokes powers vested in him under the Constitution, he is acting legally and constitutionally. So those people that have been challenging the legality of the Constitution maybe might be doing that out of ignorance. They don’t know what the president did to create this office. What they could be doing is maybe challenging the current administration or whosoever is in the office now to say can you revoke the creation of this office. And of course the president including President Banda right now has got the power. If he wants to close the Task Force tomorrow all he has to do is invoke his powers under the same Constitution, the same Article 61 and…
If he wants to close the Task Force tomorrow all he has to do is invoke his powers under the same Constitution, the same Article 61 and say I hereby dissolve the Task Force and then tomorrow we can lock up and go, period.
The CPS fantasist has gone silent
Phiri: Do you think there was an invisible hand in this judgment?
Nkole: I wouldn’t say, what has happened here only upon appeal shall we know the truth. Nobody should want to block the appeal because we want to go and argue to present our arguments before a higher court as to why we think there should have been a conviction and I hope that nobody in the corridors of power and elsewhere should come and say we are blocking this appeal. You can’t block an appeal, the court said either party can appeal, why should anybody want to jump up and say you are not gonna go ahead. If the two co-suspects who have been convicted have got a right of appeal why shouldn’t the state have a right of appeal?
So for me, I think that what I did in instructing MNB to go ahead and file the grounds of appeal is the rightful thing. We have to be seen to be advancing the due process of the law. We can’t block a due process by saying we shouldn’t go ahead with the appeal let the higher court….after all these cases are of great public interest. You know these are not cases that you want to close just at the magistrate level and say it’s done, it’s not done. You gonna have to prepare yourself to go all the way up to the Supreme Court. That is how justice is dispensed and that’s how it supposed to be seen to be dispensed.
Phiri: On the registration of the London judgment, where are we?
Nkole: We have started off very well, the Attorney General did a good job and we went before the late justice Japhet Banda but unfortunately as you know he passed on in a traffic accident, which means we have to restart the whole motion. Filing in motion before another judge, reallocation of the case before another judge, setting up dates of trial and most of the calendars are actually locked up. As of now, the Attorney General is trying to secure the dates when the hearing could take place. The Chiluba camp and his co-defendants are challenging the registration of that.
It seems you people who support Nkole’s dismissal are direct benefiacieries of Chiluba’s thieving and you are happy with the cuts you were getting but one thing for sure you shall be haunted by this evil which you support.Yes,today you have food to eat and everything and we hope those items will last and your children will never suffer.It seems you are the same chaps who have never been out of Lusaka or only have been to places along the line of rail but if you really travelled deep into rural Zambia and see how people are suffering,then you might reconsider.Some of us have seen real suffering in places like Chitokoloki,Chavuma,Kalene,Northen province,Western,Eastern and many parts of this country where people still live like in stoneage.So,you better think again b4 supporting criminals
Rupiya has appointed all Easterners in all the influential positions. RB has alot to learn from Chiluba. Easterners are now basking in Tuleteka conecpt like in Chiluba days when he Tubulus where seen sun basking.
So most likely we are going to go in for a protracted litigation just to get the registration of that judgment endorsed or secured by the court it will be protracted. And so far as that judgment…the London judgment is not resolved, you can’t talk about the lifting of Chiluba’s immunity. And in so far as these criminal cases upon… the state hasn’t yet exhausted the proceeding and the procedure of appeal up to the Supreme Court, you can’t talk about the lifting of somebody’s immunity.
Phiri: Some people argued that the case in the London High Court is a civil matter that can’t block the issue of restoring his immunity.
Nkole: When his immunity was being lifted, it never stated that it’s only limited to criminal matters, no! All sorts of abuses committed during his administration whether they are civil or otherwise. We, the people that have been strategising to select and choose which abuses, we decided that some of these abuses are best dealt with civilly. So a better option which would eventually just lead us to recover the amount of money, which was abused. Houses were bought using government funds, we have to recover all that…vehicles were abused, money spent on children’s education, public money and a poor Zambian there in the streets is actually there…
a poor Zambian there in the streets is actually there suffering, so we have to recover that and restore it to the Zambian people. President Mwanawasa said that all the monies that are being recovered by the Task Force should go into a recoveries account at the Bank of Zambia, which is actually managed by the Ministry of Finance and that, that money should therefore, eventually be used by the Ministry of Health to upgrade district hospitals across the country. Now that is not up to me to say what is going on there, that will be up to the government to say whether that policy, which was endorsed by Cabinet is currently ongoing and if they are using those monies that have been realised.
The London judgment is in extent of 400 million if you put all the defendants together. We have to enforce that judgement in respect of each one of them. By the way, we have already made recoveries against Shansonga one of the co defendants. So what stops any other co-defendant from not paying their liabilities? Boutique Basili who was making the shoes and suits for Dr Chiluba says ‘here is your money I am giving it back to the Zambian people I didn’t know that I was doing this thing in a country which is as poor as what I have come to learn. I cannot have any of this money you have to have it back.’
He has paid it back so several other defendants are starting to pay back this money and there is nothing special why Dr Chiluba’s liability should not be enforced. You can argue and delay its registration but at the end of the day, we have a solid case against him at civil law there. And then side by side as I have said that we gonna have to appeal on this matter. We also are going to look at other criminal cases that are pending and outstanding and I hope that the authorities should not block us either as Task Force or indeed any other law enforcement agency from stopping to look into these cases.
Phiri: Talking about the same London case Mr Nkole, we are made to believe as a country through you the Task Force we lost about US $40 million.
Nkole: No… over the period of my time which is when the donors came on board in October 2005, that’s when they signed the MoU between the government and the donors, the donors have only put in US $10 million, which is US $5 million in 2005 and 2006 and then six and seven. So five, five…ten all together all the donors put together so I don’t know who is dreaming those figures of US $40 million and then all the other expenses it’s been born by the GRZ. All other expenses the donors put in and so you know…and all that money has been utilised to pay our London lawyers.
Phiri: Your push for the appeal is also being interpreted as just for personal benefit. We are meant to believe in a month on I think allowances and salaries it comes to K1.2 billion for about six people.
Nkole: I have never taken a single allowance from the Task Force since my appointment not even housing allowance or any sort of allowance. Of course maybe I do take a day or two if I am flying out to go and pay for my accommodation but I don’t take any allowance at all. Those officers working for the Task Force are drawn from the Zambia Police, DEC, ACC… there is only one person who is on contract at the Task Force and that’s me, I don’t draw that kind of salaries or allowances. By virtue of their operational duties, they are required to get maybe an operational allowance when…
By virtue of their operational duties, they are required to get maybe an operational allowance when they are operating outside Lusaka. That is all normal, it’s happening in all government institutions. There is nothing special about somebody working for the Task Force getting an allowance which allowances is gotten by anybody else so there is nothing so peculiar about that. They do get sort of an operational allowance when they are on duty but the figures don’t go to the kind of figures I think the person giving you those figures needs to come and see me or indeed read the Auditor General’s report because these things…our office is so public all the money from donors, all the money from the government is always reflected, the expenditure in the Auditor General’s report.
Phiri: Before I get to the messages, we have received a couple of messages that I will be able to read for you to respond…operational challenges I know that at some point the donors did withdraw, how are you managing in terms of…
Nkole: It has been difficult that is why it’s so difficult for us to, for instance, go and operate and trace the Carlington maize money in Canada and in the Canary Islands and in Jersey out there you need money to get there, to go and do operations there. The donors pulled out in May 2007 and since then, the government has been left alone to bear the costs. Of course, you know on one hand I would agree with the government when they say we should close the Task Force because it’s been expensive for them to run as a government on their own without…
The other thing which every Citizen of this Country should know is that;Our Justice System is CRAP!.For example,How long does it take for a Presidential Election Petition to be concluded ?.Since 1996,things in Zambia have been done in a crooked way,who introduced such a system?.If you go to Chimbokaila and find out how many inmates who are waiting trial,you shall be amazed at the large number of people suffering.What did Jesus teach you and Prisoners and Justice?.If Chiluba is not a Criminal,why did he have to save money in a GRZ account instead of openning his own account with ZANACO,Barclays etc..??.Is the Zamtroop account the only account Chiluba knew or had and why did he have to give a State Secret Account to his so-called friends inorder to get donations for his Party?.Wake Up Zambia
When exactly did this man’s contract expire?
#44 Sasa , insansa kuchinjanya. What happened when LPM ( The guy that re-introduced tribal politics/ nepotism ) took the reigns of power ? He went all over employing his kith and kin in influential appointments e.g this bearded fella that left Ministry of Defense. Go to ZESCO, OPSD, Ministry of foreign affairs and then you will see hundred of sons and daughters of honey-collectors related to either Levy or Maureen ! Ni tula twakane boyi !!
Yes, I think they are legitimate reasons to do that, the London case is going on, there are still certain by the way motions and litigation still going on attracting legal cost from time to time. So it becomes a little bit difficult and the government has to decide when are they gonna stop this? But that is not to say they should stop to pursue the recovery of the US $20 million on the arms deal or indeed the Carlington deal or indeed any other of these flaws that were committed during the ten years of this administration. They should recover that money, there is nobody who has got the moral right to say stop that investigation because those are public funds, they have to be restored back to the Zambians somehow, we got to work out the mechanism of ensuring that…even if we can’t…
Phiri: Mr Nkole let’s see if you can be able to respond to some of the messages that we have received from our viewers quite a number of them that we have received. The first one says ‘Mr Nkole I feel the people of Zambia are betrayed by you and your people, you and you people were tasked to do something which you have failed to do, sad, what next now? One day Zambians are going to…’ maybe I take two or three then you respond. The other one says ‘we are human beings and we all know God please let him enjoy his rest of life forgive and forget lovely Zambians Mr Tembo from Lusaka’. Maybe the last one says ‘it was on news that only DPP can sanction an appeal against FTJ your comment sir!’
#17 Kayukwa was part of the Task Force on Corruption….actually he is a former military man.Lt col Kayukwa (rtd) has served in various Legal positions in the army and in the govt.I should just say that he is a man with a very rich CV….Nkole is corward who used to bootlick when Mwanawasa was alive…they failed to arrest Chiluba in the arms saga..why do they want to bring it now.$23million is more than the $500 000 that they took chiluba to court for having stolen..Its your turn Nkole to go and reflect on your failures.How much have you guys spent in the task force and how much have you recovered…SHAME ON YOU..
Ba Jinx Popo
All of this is on the Post News paper why not just refer people there instead of your copy paste job you have given yourself.
Ololimbi you are the posts yourself just add comments to your articles and we shall coment from there.
Did anyone question also the timing that the post decided to go free online and the improvements are yet to be seen.
They want there massage to be heard and they lost a lot of customers i being one of them so they are printing for free
#57 finishes as …….we got to work out the mechanism of ensuring that…even if we can’t prosecute for being complacent or collusion in the loss of this money but at least we should be seen to make demonstrated efforts to recover the money on behalf of the Zambian people.
Let him rest before he gets an early ride in the Manda mandas
Zambulance ichindike. ”Maybe just the first one, this one who feels really betrayed the Zambians…you were tasked to do something, which you have failed. Is it true you have failed?
Nkole: I don’t know what’s failure in his definition. We are still pursuing these cases, we are still recovering money, we have recovered so much money in terms of asset recovery. We are yet up to enforce the London judgment. We have been prosecuting Mr Chiluba for US $500,000 and that case has collapsed, we are appealing and this is where I think that as Zambians we have to be careful. There is a Zambian complaining that you have let us down because of the acquittal and there are certain interest groups that are saying you can’t even appeal against it.
JINX POPO GO AND WORK U CANT SPEND ALL DAY WRITING AND POSTING THESE THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON THIS BLOG
Why shouldn’t we appeal? So dear comrade I think to the writer I would say that you are supposed to be advocating for us to appeal because in any case what if the higher court actually overturns the acquittal and finds this man guilty, what are you people going to say? It’s just fair that we ensure that justice is seen to be, being done and that both parties be allowed to do what is rightful…their right to do, which means if either party feels we should appeal we should go ahead. I feel that we should appeal I have given instructions that we should appeal and my lawyers have told me as of this afternoon the papers were lodged, I am quite happy with that.
JINX POPO GET AWAY LEAVE SPACCE FOR SERIOUS TALK NOT THIS PLAGIARISM OF YOURS
Nkole walk with your head up. You have done us proud. Just like my wife normally tells me when fool around that “DAYS A NUMBERED” Indeed the days are numbered with RB,VJ, Teta, Mulongoti and all the Bootiliggers. It may not come 2011. But some day the time will come.
PLEASE GET OUT JINX POPO
I will ”Sichilima” somebody. I’m unemployed youth passing strongly considering forming my NGI (Non Govt Individual (org)
Phiri: This one says that ‘how true is it that you are trying to shield the cases of theft coming against you?’ The other one says ‘Mr Nkole we know you just want to continue with your fat salary. As Zambians we are saying no to Task Force, we want to remain with the ACC please leave him alone’. Okay may be we can take another one, ‘this one says you are just wasting our taxpayers money, leave Chiluba’. Then this one says ‘Max The Post will use you to make their money and dump you be careful, the way you talk, act professionally and not politically’. Maybe you can respond to this…
Nkole: I have no relationship with The Post in my previous life. The Post has actually castigated me. I don’t know the owners, I am told it’s Mr M’membe and other people. I have no relationship with them. I am a professional pure and pure, at the UN yes, maybe my salary was in extent of US $12,000 to US $13,000 I was earning for the last 10, 11 years. When I came here my salary has dropped to almost US $3,000. So there is no fat salary I am picking here as compared to where I am coming from. And all these poor policemen from DEC and from police and whatever, they are just getting their basic police salaries. Nobody is gobbling any fat salaries from the Task Force at all, nobody! Not me, not even an allowance.
JINX POPO THANKS FOR REALIZING THAT WHAT YOU WERE DOING HAS NO PLACE ON THIS BLOG OR ANYWHERE IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD.
And if it comes to people thinking that some of us are sticking on to this job, it’s just that we feel so passionate about what president Mwanawasa stood for. We have to redeem our country from corrupt elements and we have to fight this vice. It’s up to the fight, you need courage, you need determination to get into the shoes that I am wearing. You can’t fight corruption if you don’t have the courage to do it or indeed the passion. Mwanawasa came and said I think you can do it and I am doing it regardless of my little salary, I am doing it for mother Zambia.
I will stop when I receive 5 complaints from 5 diff people
JINX GREAT STUFF. KEEP THEM INFORMED. BLOGGERS WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH JINX IDEA YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. THIS ARE SERIOUS ISSUES AND THEY ARE PUBLIC.
JINX I WILL DISFIGURE THE DETAILS OF YOUR INTERNET SERVER WHERE YOU ARE BLOGGING FROM.
GOOD RIDDANCE…… NEXT
It was expected so i am not surprised at the development. Even if the contract had not expired, govt would found a way of removing the man. What a coincidence that his contract expired at this time. Zambia the real Africa, no direction.
Phiri: We move on and take some more messages. Quite a number like I mentioned…’you have spent a lot on this case already some of you are stinking rich we know kalilo’. This one says ‘Mr Nkole don’t listen to fake NGOs who have no followers’. This one says ‘Mr Nkole why don’t you leave him alone, acquittal was free and fair I think it was the only case that you depend on’. This one says ‘how is it possible that for people involved in a case one goes scott-free whilst the other three get five-year jail sentence on the same case’?
Nkole: Absolutely, and that’s why we are going on appeal because we are saying that it’s similar facts, the case is drawn from more or less similar facts.
I HAVE NOT READ THE STUFF THOUGH, THEY LOOK TO MUCH…JINX POPO LET ME READ YOUR POSTINGS……MAY BE THERE IS SENSE….
Thanks Weedy! Some people dont know where this data is…..!!!
ON “Former Executive Chairman of the Task Force on Corruption, Max Nkole, has accepted government’s decision not to renew his contract.“, great stuff Mr Nkole. Well done Mr Nkole for you have run a good race and it is time for others to take it up.
I will keep a close look at how the Task Force will continue the appeal agianst Mr Chiluba’s acquittal and also others work that it has been doing on high level corruption.
Have a blessed day all and may God bless Mr Nkole and the rest of us all.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the knigdom of God and His righteousness and all things shall be added unto you.
You can’t lock these two people in and then acquit the other one. There has to be very compelling reasons why he is being and these are the reasons which we want the higher court to go and review. And let me also say that the Task Force was not created just to prosecute Dr Chiluba’s US $500,000 case that’s all, no! I think that is completely a mistaken position. Task Force was created to look at the general abuses and this Zamtrop case upon which he registered an acquittal is just one of the several cases that are supposed to be put up against him.
And if people are trying to advocate to say leave him alone, who is going to bring back your US $20 million which was supposed to be used for the purchase of firearms here. Are you going to let that money go just like that? And then these same people who are saying leave him alone they will go around knocking and saying no I fought for you to say they should leave you alone so give me a percentage. Is that we are going to…no I am a fighter and we are not going to allow that. We have to pursue these cases rigorously until when we recover the money that’s been plundered…US $20 million just talk about US $100,000, US $50 or maybe US $5,000 what it can do in the township here just to uplift people’s lives, maybe put a borehole, maybe put a small road or a bridge or something like that.
Now you are telling me, me appointed to fight corruption I should just let go of US $20 million down the drain? You got to be joking! And if that is the general attitude of Zambians to say leave him alone I wouldn’t leave him alone. We have to pursue justice to its logical conclusion. The Bembas say umulandu taubola the case can take for as long as 10 to 15 years, the case will still be outstanding there. If my investigators tomorrow have to go to Canada to go and talk to Alexander… before he is sentenced on 10th October and he is going to tell us who has benefited out of the Carlington maize and which bank accounts were used to deposit those monies, is that not fair for the Zambians to know?
JINX POPO TRY DOING A COURSE IN SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY…..
Is it not fair for the Task Force or indeed any other law enforcement agencies to follow up and recover that money and bring it back? That is taxpayers money. And so much money else has been lost in the privatisation of the mines and the parastatals, we just don’t have the capacity to follow up on each one of these cases and take these people to court because we shall be accused of harassing them. But we would like to do a thorough job, a professional job so that when we take somebody to court we know that we have a prima facie case. In all these cases we have taken to court the courts have actually agreed with us that they were good grounds to be taken to court including that of Dr Chiluba.
We presented the case at prosecution stage and the court said yes, you had established a prima facie case and I am gonna put this person on his defence, that’s what the court said. Anna Chifungula, the Auditor General, as a prosecution we didn’t call the Auditor General to come and give evidence on our behalf to prove whose money it is that was in the Zamtrop account. Anna Chifungula was called by the defence by the Chiluba camp to come and give evidence in their favour and she said you can’t put your private money in a government account, the moment you do that, that money forfeits to the state, it’s government money.
jINX YOU ARE WELCOME AND THANKS
That’s what the Auditor General…that’s what is on the record. So these are some of the things, which we are saying I don’t want to comment on them but I think that the innocence of Mr Chiluba on the Zamtrop case for which he has been tried is questionable.
YEARS FLY THESE DAYS AND IF OTHERS THINK THEY WILL DIE WHILE IN POWER THEN GOOD LUCK CAUSE WHAT GOES AROUND DOES COME AROUND…….SOON OR LATER OTHERS WILL BE THERE TO RULE ZED …… IF I WAS THE PRESIDO AND KNOWING HOW OLD AM AND KNOWING THAT I WILL HAVE PENSION FOR LIFE I WOULD NOT BOTHER TO BE INVOLVED IN WHAT IS GOING ON BUT RATHER DO THE BEST FOR THE COUNTRY IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT MOTHER ZED OR ARE YOU FROM ZIM ,,,,ZIM LET US KNOW…….BUT GOD ALMIGHTY WILL SORT THIS OUT FOR MOTHER ZED SOON.
You made no sense to big nose, 8 years without a good result.
Sorry mr heart broken maximum condom but did you make yourself rich from all this ? or not, that is why you wanted the job back?
Thanks Weedy once more. Have you noticed the NGIs (Non Govt’al Individuals) have gone quiet?
Phiri: As the Task Force what lessons have you learned… really what has happened in the Chiluba case?
Nkole: We are still studying the whole thing and this is why I think that we can only put up meaningful arguments when the matters go before the High Court, that is when I think the Zambians will need to know what has gone wrong. That’s when we can put up our own arguments. We can’t start arguing the case right now here because that is the domain of our lawyers and including the DPP’s chambers to go and argue our case. All we can do is consolidate our case for argument and say we believe that this man should have been found guilty. As to whether or not there has been some influence I don’t want to say that.
JINX POPO…I WILL START TIT FOR TAT…..YOU ARE BLOCKING NEW IDEAS FROM OTHERS BLOGGERS…LT THERE IS NO MODERATION HERE?????????????????
But it’s quite interesting how a court that has found somebody guilty after the closure of the prosecution case can subsequently found him innocent…I mean found him guilty or with a case to answer and subsequently acquit him, it’s a contradiction for me as far as am concerned. So I think that’s our position and say that we did welcome the conclusion of that case because it has taken so long. I think in the best interest of justice it’s better that these cases be handled by the Task Force that have gone on and on must be concluded
I Write What I Like;: Tekanya nalapwisha nombaline………
why is sata & hh ziiii ….he has no clue on what to say. I am sorting their pipo out. one by one…mpombo out, nkole out, nchitos next…..then fred then its 2011
You might want to know that the delays in concluding these cases is mostly attributable to the defence themselves rather than the prosecution side…70 per cent of all adjournments and of all these dragging on of these cases it’s because of the defence trying to find excuses hoping that maybe as we go on maybe one key witness might die. So therefore that will break down the case and stuff like that. If you are trying to accord the suspect due process you just have to conform and say well let’s go on an adjournment. So these cases have been dragging on not because we are interested or because we want to stay in position.
INX POPO…I WILL START TIT FOR TAT…..YOU ARE BLOCKING NEW IDEAS FROM OTHERS BLOGGERS…LT THERE IS NO MODERATION HERE?????????????????
Ulimbuli kalampa. Max has always been rich and he did not cling on to the task force for monetary gain. you even have the guts of saying he can go to some village, wechinangwa iwe.
BUT JINX POPO WALIPENA MULETUPELA IBANGE MUPEPA IFWE KUNO MANGWALALA….SHANI KADOBO KA KU ZAMBIA???????
Continue Jink Popo,we are together in the fight against corrupt Chaps like ZAMBIANCE.They do not know how it feels when your Pay as you Earn is being abused.
#98 RB you should know better. Now that tou have befriended Kafupi, you as Kanitundila will have difficulties being close to George. Remember he was AG and Justice minister, so he is reponsible for the London litigation and he is the Godfather of trhe task force.
NKOLE IS THE BEST PROSECUTOR IN ZED ….. WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT IN 2016 I WILL MAKE HIM I.G OF POLICE
We want to wind up the cases and go home, this is a very risky and lonely job. I personally don’t want to stay this way for the rest of my life or indeed another one or two years. I want to be free like you mingle… we cultivate a lot of enemies in this job. We are playing with people’s lives or is it livelihoods and of course they have got sympathisers and these sympathiser are not happy with us and yet these risks that we expose ourselves to by accepting these jobs they gonna stay with us for the rest of our lives. That unfortunately is the price we will have to pay so it’s so disheartening for anybody even to suggest that these people are enjoying there.
JINX SHANI KADOBO???
Amuna Onzuna mwanzunilatu………………
#107, Lolela ndande na Hefty Jay………
There is nothing to enjoy in this job, absolutely nothing and until Zambians start appreciating the due process of the law, the fact that legal matters must be allowed to take full course are we going to be ourselves.
You can’t start politicising these cases, these are purely criminal cases and let the law flow…let it flow without suggesting or being sympathetic to any of these people that we are prosecuting.
Phiri: Do you feel the case has been politicised?
Nkole: Well I have heard some political sentiments being expressed ‘leave him alone, give him a pardon’, whatever. Why should we give somebody a pardon? If we give him a pardon we might as well give a pardon to every other person who has gone through our hands. There shouldn’t be any sacred cows, there shouldn’t be any discrimination… certain people given preferred advantage. If all these people that we have been locking up and others who have been acquitted had the right of appeal as a party to the proceedings why should we make special arrangements for Dr Chiluba’s acquittal? Let the law take its course, period!
Phiri: People have said there is also need to extend…that’s why the element where people say maybe witch-hunting comes in. There have been people that have suggested that your mandate be extended even maybe to the Kaunda regime, even part of the late president Mwanawasa’s regime.
Nkole: That’s what you would expect law abiding citizens to be advocating, to say that there should be equality before the law. If Chiluba can be investigated by the Task Force, extend the mandate of the Task Force to include Kaunda’s era, Mwanawasa’s era, that way you will be seen to be fair. I think that is a plausible argument rather than say frustrate the work that has been covered so far because I have to start afresh.
Wheather RB fires nkole or not CHILUBA still remains a theif and RB still remains a corrupt leader Zambian has ever come across and that is something RB will not take away from our minds!!!
And in this job that we do there is need for a very strong political will. We have seen it in this country that governments come and go. There was Kaunda, nobody thought the one party state will ever go, it went. Then came FTJ, he went. By an act of God, we lost President Levy Mwanawasa, now we have a fourth president. A new administration may come in, it could be the same party but somebody else, a leader who comes in looking at issues differently.
We don’t want another person to come and say let us open the Task Force again because now we have just realised that they were an efficient tool to fight corruption. Whilst there is still room to modify maybe the task Force as an institution whilst there is still space I think these issues have to be debated and look at the achievements of the Task Force vis-a-vis and see how you can help to advance the cause. I think that is a much more pragmatic way of looking at things otherwise there is nothing personal in this job for anyone of us.
I have nothing personally against Dr Chiluba, he is actually my uncle. He is Uncle Fred but I have a job to do and when I speak about this I am not speaking out of hate or any kind of misconceived ideas against him. I respect him, he was my president, he was my commander-in-chief at one time, that’s it but I have a role to play and if you ask me to go and investigate president Kaunda, I will just do that after all we did it before. And if you ask me to go and investigate president Mwanawasa I will do it without fear or favour, that’s Max Nkole.
A man was arrested in Lusaka , Yesterday at a tavern in woodlands for insulting Chiluba and RB publicly. two police officers came in a police bus to arrest the gentleman who was reported on.
Phiri: What is the way forward then Mr Nkole regarding what we are facing as regards this case?
Nkole: I think that it’s… for all these people that are advocating and they want to see the demise of the Task Force, I think they are not standing firmly on behalf of the Zambian people. I think that the Zambian people need to be given chance to ensure that the law progresses and protects them and protects their assets.
Ba JINX Popo i even went and had a nap you are still pastind desparate to get membes message across. You have just admitted taht you have lost readers on the POST by saying people dont know where this data is
Zambulance, there are Zambians who are doing 3-4 jobs. They dont know where to get this data. Baleke bajobe. Hw has Nkole’s interview with Muvi TV become Membe’s message. Chopeti.
The Zambian people want to see that plundered money which has been stuck in overseas accounts must be brought back, that’s what they want to see, they don’t want to see us closing down shop and abandoning these cases if on the other hand I think one had to look at it he would say that if government decided to close down the Task Force today, tomorrow make the provision so that there is a smooth handover of all outstanding cases to a competent authority, either civil cases to the Attorney General, outstanding criminal cases before, they go to the DPP or indeed cases at investigation stage to the Drug Enforcement and ACC, that way they would have dissolved the Task Force and then those competent authorities can take over.
I think that’s the way forward. But for now, let us allow the law to take its course, there has to be an appeal which was recognized by the presiding magistrate to say that either party should be allowed to appeal and we should not be seen to be frustrating that.
Phiri: There is a message here that we can take Mr Nkole, this one says ‘I don’t agree that Zambians have welcomed Dr Chiluba’s acquittal as reported to have been said by the president because no survey or opinion poll has been carried out to that effect. Don’t you think that the head of state should be asked to withdraw that statement?’
Nkole: Spare the head of state, he is a politician, he can say what is best suitable for the country in the circumstances. And we are not going to be talking about what the politicians talk about in these cases. Exactly, the same reason why all these NGOs, all these other people who are not parties to these proceedings trying to make comments should not detract our attention from seeking what is just and fair.
FTJ JAILED ME DURING ZERO OPTION ….. I HAVE FORGIVEN HIM. SATA WAS MY FRIEND IN THOSE NICE UNIP DAYS……ZAMBIANS MUST KNOW THAT IN POLITICS THERE ARE NO PERMANENT FRIENDS OR ENEMIES. ..TODAY SATA IS MY ENEMY, THOUGH MY ENEMY NO.1 IS THE POST & FRED. IF YOU WANT TO TEST MY RESOLVE . …..BEFRIEND THE POST AND MMEEMBE AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO….. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE I WILL SORT YOU OUT. FTJ HAS REPENTED AND DESRVES DIGNITY AND RESPECT AND I KNOW HE WILL MAKE ME WIN SOME VOTES ESPECIALLY IN LUAPULA & NORTHERN. IAM NOT LIKE SATA OR UNDER 5 HH TALK TALK TALK AND NO ACTION…..I HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN SO GOOD TO THE LPM CLIQUE THAT I HAVE KEPT MOST OF THEM AND ONLY THOSE WHO CANT BELIEVE THAT LEVI IS NO MORE LIKE MAGANDE, SILVIA, SHAKA ETC CAN TESTIFY. EVEN MORREN KNOWS RB IS A GUY
What is just and fair is that there has been an acquittal, which we said as Task Force that we do accept the decision of the court, however we don’t subscribe to the theory that, that same decision alluded to Dr Chiluba’s innocence. So it’s on that score that we said that okay not all Zambians actually agree that he was acquitted because there was no evidence. We believe that this issue as to why he was acquitted and on what grounds he was acquitted and whether or not he is innocent or guilty those proceedings can only be determined by a higher court and through a higher court maybe even up to a Supreme Court. Because there are certain critical issues raised in that judgment including whether or not a sitting president is a public servant.
Contract finito… no mankuncha for ARVs… The Niger will be on a mandetory Sliming diet… To bad Abena Nkole… anyway sh********* happenes. Fisanga abaume. Hope you get ka job soon.
You just can’t let an issue like is a president a public servant or not and leave it there and say he is not a public officer, no! Presidents of every country whether elected or nominated is a public servant but am not challenging the decision of the court, am just saying that my own personal understanding, presidents elected or nominated they are public servants and we can go up to the High Court and Supreme Court to argue that point and see whether or not Dr Chiluba wasn’t actually a public servant. So this is where we draw our courage to say this matter has to be argued beyond the current level at which it has been acquitted to a higher level.
#120
Because so far they are the onlyones to publish the Muvi TV interview and because if you where not that despara-te you could have simply directed people in the right direction after after a few copy and paste
Jinx Popo, don’t stop, you doing a good job.
JINX POPO YOU ARE SUCH A WHIMP. DONT YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO. YOU SEEM TO HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS. PLEASE USE IT CONSTRUCTIVELY. YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE BLOG SINCE 3 PM TILL NOW YOU HAVENT SAID ANYTHING THAT MAKES SENSE. PACK UP AND GO. OR IS IT YOU ARE USING YOUR BOSS’S COMPUTER AND HE IS GONE OUT
Phiri: You have told us that you have appealed just make us understand what next, you have appealed what next, what are we waiting for, what will happen?
Nkole: We have appealed, the matter has to be listed down, it must be allocated to a High Court judge for hearing and we just have to wait to get the hearing dates and either parties will be informed. We have lodged in our appeal, the papers of our appeal will be served on Dr Chiluba’s lawyers and they will start preparing their case of arguments against the appeal and we will also be lodging our own appeal and eventually the judge will sit down to determine the merits of both cases.
Most of these so called task force, commission of enquiry, boards etc, representing govt are there to simply use the opportunities for self gain.
It’s a pity not many people know about these issues; when you understand this your view will be altered.
It is much more beneficial to strengthen istitutions like the ACC the have legal structures. Not Nkole who can not even tell who the plentiff is in these cases. You appoint an agent and he takes over the matter from the owner. Nkole is a jocker. He plan was to have the task force become indefinit, that is why he was banking cases in files and then releasing one by one to lengthen the life of the task force. Those plans are easy to understand; if someone cant see that then I dont know what they can see.
I keep coming back after sometime to see what other peoples views are on the matter but i keep finding your copied items from the POST that is why i asked that you direct people there then they can comment here since your boss hasnt added a comment page to his articles
Thanks Kelvin. H1N1 which antivirals do you need? Integrase inhibitors or Fusion inhibitors?
Just reading some comments on this blog…you clearly see why Zambia will always be poor and a joke in the eyes of every progressive sane person on this planet. How can some of you support the firing of Nkole or the non renewal of his contract when they have allowed the chief Justice to remain in office long after he exceeded retirement age? People, you should try to be pro-active if you want change in this country. If you don’t see sense in the interview Nkole gave to Muvi TV (Which together with his appeal) have cost him his job, then you must be sick and as useless to the future of the country as the RB crew.
JINX POPO IF YOU ARE JUST LAZING AROUND IN THE USA AND YOU HAVE TALENT JUST COME BACK AND I WILL HELP YOU FORM AN NGO ……TO SUPPORT ME. AT LEAST YOU WILL PUT YOUR TALENT TO GOOD USE LIKE YOUR FRIENDS CHIFIRE AND THESE ONE MAN PRESIDENTS ……..JINX POPO FOR RB
so now nkole will form a party or will join opposition party , or will be in the next govt, as a minister or something then he will charge RB, who will spend a few days in jail then will go ut on bail blablabla. we all know how this soapie goes. Zambia the real Joke
And I am saying that until such a time that these issues are thoroughly dealt with either through the High Court, the Supreme Court we shouldn’t be talking about lifting anybody’s immunity here. Let us have respect for the law and the course of the law to take place before we can start talking about immunity. Personally, I would support Dr Chiluba’s lifting of immunity if in fact all these cases were cleared, if the London judgment was cleared. This appeal we are lodging is cleared, his outstanding investigations against him are also cleared. I will be the first one to advocate that restore his immunity so that he is free to move up and down.
JINX PIPO HAMMER THEM BOY, DONT GO. LET THEM GO IF THEY WANT !
BUSH POLITICS. BUSH LAW.
JINX I LIKE YOUR IDEAS IF WE CAN PUT THE MINDS TOGETHER AND WRITE A NOVEL THAN THE BULLLLL….. S. H. 1. T. YOU ARE POSTING HERE
#36 thanks for your offer, but you are dull to hire. Cant you see what you are doing? What is your political advisor telling you?
JINX POPO.. U AR FU OF ………S. H. 1…T…
Jinx zamo! Uliwacabe iwe! Please post more.
In conclusion……….We have had lessons learnt from processing these cases before the court of law and working with other institutions. We have documented cases learnt and these lessons learnt that this country has to try to build upon. Task Force has contributed immensely to the success of case law in this country. We have built up legal precedents which will be followed in future so the institution has not been in vein. It has been very much key in terms of developing the rule of law in this country, in terms of also helping the vulnerable groups, poor people try to get back a little bit of the money.
But if you have got a case against Mr A, which is credible, take it to court. Let the courts decide. At one time we wanted to advocate for special courts to say well in view of the fact that there are complaints…. [break in transmission] Inspiring person to us fighters, inspired us to continue the fight and if the fight is going to be stopped at least we will have lessons learnt which we can impart to future generations, that’s what I can say.
FINALLY CONCLUSION……….HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE……..U AR FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU OF …….S. H. 1. 1. 1. T……..JINX POPO THIS BLOG NEEDS MODERATION LT
sansakuwa walasa!
Phiri: Well spoken, more than 30 minutes there but I think it was important we had to allow Mr Nkole wind up on that note… Once against thank you very much sir.
Nkole: Thanks very much.
I watched this interview and having evuated some pipo’ rxns on the blog and bearing in mind sm pipo esp abroad dnt know where this data is, I though it prudent to share.
#135 _____Amen!!!!! this blog is full of s.t.u.p.i.d fulls who find if very difficult to reason properly!! i dont want to mention names coz the i.d.i.o.t .s in question know themselves.
Anyways most people here have nothing better to do and are lazy to look free information for themselves. you all lazy fimo fimo Zambians are a waste of time doing business with especially with the artitude of people that blog here
FOR 4 HOURS U HAVE BEEN WRITING CRAP HERE…..INTELLECTUAL MINDS CAME AND WENT BECOZ THEY CANT TAKE YOUR BULLL.. I WILL REMAIN AND TAKE U ON SINCE IAM AS BORED AS U ARE….WE SHUD GO TO ZAMBIA AND DEVELOP THE COUNTRY INSTEAD OF SITTING DOWN DOING NOTHING A PART FROM THE BULL U ARE WRITING.
THANKS JINX…GO WELL MAN
Twili do not encorage such some articles have copyright and you have to acknolwdge your source
JINX…..POPO……THANKS FOR BRINGING SHAME FOR THIS BLOG AND PUTTING THE NAME OF THE OWNERS LT IN GREAT SHAME FOR POOR MODERATION STRATEGIES…….THEY CANT EVEN REMOVE THE . S. H. 1. .. 1.. T ….U ARE POSTING.
GO WELL JINX……5 HOURS BLOGGING, HOW MUCH HAVE U MADE…..?????
Twili is in his mid to late 40,s where as Jinx is in his late 30s i know this because Zambians around that age are sad people especially if life has taken a different turn on them
What time is news on Radio P maybe we can get some updates on the day
Mr. Nkole since the acquittal has been making very dangerous statements for an officer managing such a sensitive organisation. As a public officer he is NOT allowed to air such views in the public domain. If he had a problem with the Government he should have resigned on principle and not go and wash dirty linen in public. Now he is relieved of his duties he will be a marked man. Mr. Nkole for those of you who know has a chequered history as a police officer and he harbours a deep hatred for FTJ which unfortunately clouded his better judgement. As an officer of the law it is unheard of to castigate a judge the way he did. It is plain stupid and unprofessional. How do you expect the appeal to succeed when you are so rude to the very people you need to adjudicate your case.
Zmbulance and I like what fimo fimo you sound like Cifire and SC. It is very easy to cluster even afetr randomizing. Shame. Hw come you are the only who are hurt simply by me delivering a humble msg? Well, the message which others may have missed has been delivered anyhow. Smtims if yopu have to break bones to deliver a fair message, so be it. I thought most pipo reacted ignorantly to Nkole’s circumstances.
Now at this level i can speak with you there is no ignorance in how people reacted fact remains that he was the first one to say Zambians should accept what the courts have decided then a few days later he has a change of heart.
Why start to point fingers at the corridors of power on a televised interveiw if not only to gain public sympathy if you know whats coming. He raises issues regarding cases that where dropped by his previous boss for national security he didnt object then why now?? you should be asking yourself those questions ppl in Zed
Nkole has been disgraced. BUT if he has tompwe he has to act fast before the kamushi assasins get him. SPILL THE BEANS NKOLE AND GET POLITICAL ASYLUM.
#135 and #150 If there will ever be any positive change in this country, most likely it will not be initiated by this blog. Not because of supporting the firing of Nkole, but whenever there is a serious issue to brainstrom you would wonder the sort of contributions from some bloggers.
I meant brainstorm in #162
nkole should expire. those in the know will act appropriately
Compare the money Nkole was getting from the job he had at the UN before LPM asked him to leave UN and that he was getting from the Task Force before you talk of allowances or salaries. Its just those with the authority expressing their power
Zambulance @ #4, use your head instead of yourk prick to think. Mr. Kanganja’s excuse of expiration of Nkole’s contract of employment is so pathetic it makes me want to cry or puke or both! What about the expired contracts of Justices Sakala and Chitengi? You haven’t had much to say about that have you?
Can someone tell us more about about Mr Nkole Is he married? Does he have children?
I used to know Mutale Nkole is that the daughter?
He seems a hero in my eyes
YOU DID YOUR BEST MY BROTHER.BUT BE VERY CAREFUL.YOU HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION AND THAT MAKES YOU SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE PLUNDERERS.LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO MUKELABAI MUKELABAI THE FORMER DPP.HE WAS FOUND DEAD IN SOUTH AFRICA UNDER UNEXPLAINED CIRCUMSTANCES.THESE ARE ISSUES THAT YOU MUST BARE IN MIND.JUST A PIECE OF ADVICE AND AS A SYMPATHIZER.TAKE CARE AND PRAY THAT GOD PROTECTS YOU FROM THESE VULTURES.WE HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOU AS ZAMBIANS.YOU DID YOUR JOB FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COUNTRY AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED.
Congratulations Maxwell Nkole. Uli mwaume sana to stand up and face the “zambia mafia” in their faces.
Whether contract expired or you have been fired does not matter.
You ve been an exemplary worker for mother zambia so you can go and rest for a while with a clear conscious.
Let ba chimbwi, the hyenas continue to plunder. Ba bulali fulu.
Maxwell Nkole has multiple terminal diseases from prostrate cancer, herpes to a dysfunctional liver. Just praising him without financial support is rubbish Zambians behavior that will not suffice the US $ 20,000 monthly wage he was taking home.Please lets help Nkole to encourage the would be citizens to see that it pays to appease armchair critics than him taking empty accolades only without material support even as he henceforth wallows in pathetic poverty.Unless we look after him, we will soon find him dead because Nkole health wise is a mobile coffin about to sink deep.Out of rejection and suffering, he may shoot himself dead any time from today unless we stand in material support with him. Please lets mitigate his suffering since we encouraged him to be that unprofessional.
LISHAMO NAGU CHISOMO ICHI
URGENT
Maxwell Nkole has multiple terminal diseases from prostrate cancer, herpes to a dysfunctional liver issue. Just praising him without financial support is rubbish Zambians behavior that will not suffice the US $ 20,000 monthly wage he was taking home not cut off.Please lets help Nkole to encourage the would be citizens to see that it pays to appease armchair critics than him taking empty accolades only without material support even as he henceforth wallows in pathetic poverty.Unless we look after him, we will soon find him dead because Nkole health wise is a mobile coffin about to sink deep.Out of rejection and suffering, he may shoot himself dead any time from today unless we stand in material support with him. Please lets mitigate his suffering since we encouraged him to be…
All the best Mr Max Nkole. Now who are these shushus on the blog today. I want to see regular bloggers not these one have been sent to mislead and confuse things. We still say bad move RB and we still demand for justice for mother land ABASH AQUITTAL!
O I know is that wheneva I get the chance to evade Tax, I wont hesitate. After o it will be stolen and no one will be held accountable. I will do my best toavoid my money from getting stolen. Be it 1 pin or 1bn.
Zambia is rotten. Good Luck!
LT THIS IS NOT NEWS ANY MORE…..ITS STALE………………………..SEND YOUR REPORTERS ON THE FRONTLINE TO BRING AS LATEST WE HAVE BEEN BLOGGING OVER THE SAME
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#167
Chenda Bwamba
I think i have also mentioned that when your contract expires the authority that gave you the job can let you work before you sign a new one. That period you prove why you deserve to get an extention. Now do you henestly think that by jumping procedure so as in his own words TO BE SEEN TO FOLLOW THE DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW AND TO BE SEEN TO BE DOING TO WORK. so in his mind he skips the dpp. Where i have worked it dosent matter how good you are at your job the minute you cross the line by doing things behind your handler you will be questioned if you do it at the time when you are meant to be renewing your contract well guess what it wont work in your favour
As for Justice Sakala am sure there is a reason why his contract has not been renewed yet and we dont know if it will be. Its expired yes but there are some people if you feel there position is that important and you have no replacement you let them work for a while. Nkole with his retoric on the corridors of power did not do him any favours. If it were in a company that i own i would fire him as well. On top of that the man being the boss he should have told the Nchitos that we can appeal but give me time to study the report and not say if you think there grounds for us to appeal then go ahead. So what is his job then just to issue instructions.
Nkole uli chaume sana and never be afraid.one day the truth will come out.we know that they are trying to sweep the dirty under the carpet but we know that one day reality we catch up with dishonesty leaders.fellow bloggers let us have one voice when it comes to matters that affect our beloved country.
JINX POPO NAUBAELA UNDER WHAT. ULEITILAKO AMENSHI.
Nkole deserved to be fired because of his arrogance. The corruption fight is a Govt programme and not a personal one. He should have listened to the appointing authority not to appeal.
I have a double take on this one…
I agree that the non renewal of his contract or his dismissal might be politically motivated and in bad faith. I think he was fired because the govt helped to get FTJ off the hook and he was trying to counter this decision by appealing. This is very bad!
But at the same time, Nkole has failed lamentably by failing to mount a strong case to convict Chiluba for the entire 8 yrs. Like I said on the other space, although the govt might have interfered with FTJ’s conviction, Nkole and his team must have worked tirelessly to produce enough evidence to secure a conviction, evidence that would withstand any form of political skirmish. That he failed to convict FTJ is enough grounds for him to even have resigned on his own.
The good old adage has yet again been proven right, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Bwezani has become so intoxicated with power that his view of reality is from a perspective of one blind in the most extreme e.g. the late PK Chishala style. Just how he thinks all these stinking judicial charades he keeps on engineering are not going to come back one day and bite him in the backside is vexing, vexing in the most extreme indeed. For the judiciary in Zambia, the DPP’s toilet acrobatic is the last nail in the coffin. The SC (State Counsel) after Mchenga’s name may as well represent Silly Chimpanzee! No wonder monkeys are pissing on these corrupt primates.
Reading some of the comments on this blog really can trigger nausea. Just why has the lord endowed some Zambians with such an abundant wealth of “ubupuba, bukuba, kupusa or indeed kusondoka?” Just why of all endowments is S T U P I D I T Y the one so prevalent in my people? Just what crime did we commit to god on the table of creation to turn out such catancrous embaciles? Even when “bakolwe” have passed their verdict whence the exclamation “kanitundila”, Zambians would still take it sitted while such a loser is busy pummelling them? True, there is an evil mystic flowing on our landscape, things aren’t the way they used to be. KK’s silence too is defeaning! Maybe kumodzi kumawa is holding him back, blood is thicker than water.
By Tuesday November 29, 2005 [09:18] The late Dictator Mwanawasa Cabbage and his selected trolls of lawyers had entered an expenditure of MORE THAN USD 7.000.000,00 WITH THE TASK FORCE all to fix one person’s presidency.The Dictator internationally dressed as a “crusader of the fight against corruption” was blind to his own plunders. We are stunned to know the following:
The amount of moneys he paid in the period between June 2003 to June 2005.“PARLIAMENT heard that US$ 5,512,190.29 has been paid to Ovag, Class Law, Denton Wide, Sapre and Honrey Simon Arnold all foreign companies, since the inception of the Task Force on Corruption.”
nkole’s contract may be expired. but are the reasons he gave for appeal not valid?
no. 186 all your claims are rubbish, not facts. please argue with facts, even if you hate levy.
IWE SHAKA … CHILL MY BROTHER… DONT EXPOSE YOUR MEDIOCRITY SO OPENLY. NKOLE YOUR HERO FAILED TO NAIL FTJ FOR 8 YEARS ….. A PROSECUTOR WHO ADMITED THAT HE APPEALED BEFORE READING THE JUDGEMENT. YOU CAN ONLY APPEAL BASED ON THE JUDGEMEMENT….AS FAR AS THE ZED CONSTITUTION IS CONCERNED ITS NOT YOU, THE POST OR YOUR god nKOLE WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DECIDE….ITS THE DPP… SUCH DISREGARD OF AUTHORITY CAN ONLY BE ACCEPTED IN PF. YOU POSTS ARE SO PATHETIC TO SAY THE LEAST. YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED ONE BY ONE AND BY THE TIME RB IS FINISHED WITH THESE CHAPS WHO CANT ACCEPT THAT LPM IS NO MORE YOU WILL BE BEHALVING LIKE HEADLESS CHICKENS AND MAYBE CHAINAMA IS THE BEST PLACE FOR YOU. TIZA MITUNDILA.
iwe ShakaZulu Ka Sezangankona stop posting ma rubbish
Some of the comments by some bloggers are just too way out of proportion, I mean really weired! Most of you guyz who poke sh**t on this blog cannot do wha this galant man has done, laying his job on the line because he cannot contain lunacy in your ” Nyamasiya Governement”. Even the least paying job, you cannot leave but would rather behave like The DPP, even in Kashiwa’s case it was the same Chalwe Mchenga!!
Maybe so 191, but I feel anyone who is given responsibility must not delegate it. Work can be delegated not responsibility, This guys gives instructions to appeal before reading the judgement, this is absolute insane. Nchito, whatever other reason is in this for Money and he has an incentive to see that this case continues. Nkole, therefore was a control with the DPP against this conflict. Yet, he does not read the judgement, but still gives instructions to proceed. Don’t tell me that Nchito who makes a minimum of $20K a month would want this case over.
Max Nkole is now liking his wounds. He tried to be professional and under estimated how powerful King FTJ is. He should have consulted Zunga Siakalima,Chendela Musonda. Politicians are merceless when their political survival and interets are threatened they can do anything even if it means to eliminate a life. Levy kept FTJon the HOOK to deminish his influence in MMD & country at large. RB needs every support fromther bad and he good to pull thru 2011 General Elections. So politically TASK FORCE has outlived its usefulness and ACC, DEC,ZP will carry on with the normal duties. Nkole should go zee just the way he accepted the appointment from Levy. Others should learn 1 or 2 things from Nkole.Politics and professiionalism do not go hand in hand. FTJ still has influence Dont Underestimate HM