Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) says the registration of the London Court judgment must go all the way to the Supreme Court.
TIZ executive director Goodwell Lungu in a statement released to QFM today says it is TIZ’s unwavering position that this is a matter of immense public interest which cannot be abandoned at this hurdle.
Last week High Court Judge Evans Hamaundu dismissed an application by the State to have the London Court judgment against former President Fredrick Chiluba and his co-accused in which they were found liable of defrauding the Zambia government of US$46 million registered.
Mr Lungu says it is unimaginable that the Attorney General can abandon the cause at this stage given the rather large judgment sum which should be recovered from the judgment debtors.
He says the Attorney General should pursue the registration of the London judgment to its logical conclusion.
Mr Lungu reminds that Zambian public that government has already used the same London High Court judgment to extract payments from defendants such as Atan Shansonga,Bimal Thaker,Cave Malik and their insurers in the United Kingdom and that properties in Belgium were recovered with a gross value of US$8 million in a claim against four European defendants on the same allegations against Dr Chiluba and others.
He adds that as far as TIZ is concerned, the finding against Dr Chiluba and his co-accused by the London Court remain valid, and that the ball is back in the court of the Attorney General and the Zambian Government.
QFM
Another useless personal opinion by an agent of the imperialism baselessly vuvuzelaling for crams such errands attracts. Zambia is a sovereign constitutional state and not an extension of the so called TIZ. What is this TIZ that our constitution should dance to the rhym of every imperialism vuvuzela which Goodwell Lungu. If you don’t believe in our sovereignty defect to the headquarters of your TIZ or ask the UN for a no man’s land to settle on.
Let this issue go to rest so much money and man power has been wasted so far.
Lungu said TIZ find it instructive that judge Hamaundu in this current judgment does not favour direct registration as a way of enforcing foreign judgments.
“What we find more intriguing is that he fails to refer to his own judgment in Reefcor Limited v. Les Generals Des Carriers Et Des Mines Exploitation Gecamines (High Court for Zambia, Kitwe District, (11 June 2007) (2002/11K/52G) where he allowed for direct registration of a judgment rendered by the High Court of South Africa despite the respondent arguing that South Africa is not one of the Britannic Majesty’s dominions, neither is it a British protectorate nor a mandated territory and that it does not have a reciprocal agreement with Zambia and did not fall under the Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act Chapter 76 of…
Continued from 3 above:…..the Laws of Zambia,” stated Lungu.
Source: Post online
It’s now very clear that RB owes chiluba something VERY BIG. It is very likely that chiluba connived with RB when he was VP and came up with a plan to assassinate Mwanawasa. This would allow RB take over the presidency and in turn set chiluba free as pay back. Chiluba knew very well that with Mwnawasa at the helm, he would surely go to jail. The biggest mistake Levy made was to appoint this shameless corrupt opportunist, RB, as VP. That was indeed a costly blunder that cost him his life. RB in tandem with George orchestrated the meanest move against their appointing authority, Levy, and sold him off at the alter of expediency. RB, George and Chiluba truly have blood on their hands!!
My deduction is that the battle against corruption should just be done away with. It is a sheer waste of time and resources. Let those who are stealing continue stealing. The fight is neither there nor here. Let Banda abuse all the resources like the way Chiluba did. Moreover,we have not seen anything tangible and worth to write home about concerning the battle against corruption. The pauper have continued being in deprivity and the rich are extremely richer in this unfair country. There is nothing Zambia has benefited out of the fight against corruption. We should just return to dictactorial regime at least there is decency in dictactorship. This so called democracy is just a method of hoodwinking the masses in plundering national resources. Let us do away with this nosense system.
The learned judge did a good job let Chiluba have some life for once hate will not take you anywere move on people.
Under article 79(7) of the Zambian Constitution, Parliament “may make laws with retrospective effect”. If there was ever an appropriate case to do so, this is the one. Make the law, after all, it will only be dealing with procedure. The fact that the money was stolen is not in dispute.
Oh please, iwe Lungu, iwe Lungu, have’t we had enough already on this one. Haven’t your lawyer friends made enough money? DO you want to start another airline called TFA=Task Force Airways. Come on it is time to move on. If your lawyer friends didn’t save enough during their boom days they deserve their poverty now. Sorry the wheels came off the gravy train. Apparently they were made of biscuits and people on it were too blind to realise. flip the page to the new chapter.
The Republic Zambia and its people national treasury will not again pander to hate crusades personal battles can cook and divert our much needed developmental funds. hatred was given a chance of 7 years trait, it tried but failed its courses. it was a poor value for money.This administration has important developmental agenda to unlock the masses from the squaror of poverty than sustaining a cartel of gold diggers in the legal fraternity.National reasources are for the common good and not valueless hate crusades.Iin a thriving democracy with uninhibited right of worship, Let hate groups die with their idolatry of worshiping and serving the dead defying the Lord’s call where Jesus said, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
The Republic Zambia and its people national treasury will not again pander to hate crusades personal battles can cook and divert our much needed developmental funds. hatred was given a chance of 7 years trait, it tried but failed its courses. it was a poor value for money.This administration has important developmental agenda to unlock the masses from the squaror of poverty than sustaining a cartel of gold diggers in the legal fraternity.National reasources are for the common good and not valueless hate crusades.
The Republic of Zambia and its people national treasury will not again pander to hate crusades personal battles can cook and divert our much needed developmental funds.
The London judgement by the now fired racist Judge Smirth is null and void.It was a racist act by white prejudiced supremacist judge whose racism has no boundery.He worked with desperate black accomplices with self identity crisis. His racism was without respect for constitutional jurisdiction.He is the same class of white supremacists that took our brother Martin Lurther King and now working restlessly to take the life of our dear brother Obama.Abash racists Africa need them no more but those with mutual respect.Let him convict his brother Blair first with more sins than African head of state.
Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest
Associated Press Aug 17, 6:22 pm ET
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SATA’S LIFETIME PLEDGE REALISED
Sata pledges to drop charges against Chiluba (Its been done Mr.Sata) – September 2006
Last week, Sata pledged to drop all corruption charges against Chiluba if elected as president, saying the former leader was being “persecuted by Mwanawasa because he was bemba”.
Kaunda had also backed another opposition presidential candidate, Hakainde Hichilema, and dismissed Sata, saying he had no leadership qualities.
Amen brother Chiluba! Indeed the God we serve reigns!!Ala tubombela lesa wafipapo. Our God watches over Jerusalem and the saints. He calls and protects us by names.The devil has been defeated again and his days on earth are numbered.His envoys on earth will continue vanishing in anguish and severe pain. Its all a matter of time.Touch not the anointed ones for end will be fatal without trademarks.
The redeemed call on the Lord as their strong tower and they are saved while the god of these Satanists, mansonist, heathens, atheist fyena kale fyafwa they are idols though recited and hanged around their necks.
It must be a problem for RB and George to see the judgement against their consultant FTJ registered after they have been celebrating his acquittal and their refusal to appeal the verdict.Some day these guys will regret what they are doing.
Stop ukutumpa imwe! Transparent what? Don’t you respect your courts? Stop wasting the money! You already wasted so much! Under the late the case dragged for years and you are still doing the foolish old ways! Disgusting!
No # 8 “Kawalala” store from your mother’s house? You got enough evidence? Bring it here then! Patriot good reasoning!
“Mr Lungu reminds …that government has already used the same London High Court judgment to extract payments from defendants such as Atan Shansonga,Bimal Thaker,Cave Malik and their insurers in the United Kingdom and that properties in Belgium were recovered with a gross value of US$8 million……”
Mr TIZ Lungu, please go and recover the rest of the money in Europe, here the law says that the judgement cannot be registered, simple and straight forward. There is nothing to appeal, you just want to enrich your lawyer friends so that you continue getting commissions? Sorry, RB has wiped your pots dry and it’s now time to build roads, schools, ooh and buy mobile hospitals.
“Mr Lungu says it is unimaginable that the Attorney General can abandon the cause at this stage given the rather large judgment sum ($46million) which should be recovered from the judgment debtors.”
But Mr TIZ Lungu, if you have recovered $8million in Europe, you have a balance of $38million. The bulk of that money, if at all it exists, must still be in Europe and can be recovered by the London judgment. Very little of that can be in Zambia. Logic demands that you go recover the money in Europe, doesn’t make sense otherwise. How can registering the judgment in Zambia help you to recover the money which is in Europe? This goes to show that you mint gold here in Zambia by sponsoring these court cases and making noises for your masters.
Maybe we would listen to TIZ Lungu if we thought he was a well meaning and serious minded person. But then he has spent a good amount of his time soiling himself earning his pay talking empty politics on behalf of his sponsors, no integrity. He doesn’t even believe what he says.
# 5 (Zambia) u are very true.R.B cannot be defending Chiluba like this 4 nothing. Its true R.B owes Chiluba something big. I smell a rat over Mwanawasa’s death. Am sure Maurine knows this no wonder she wanted government 2 investigate his death. Mwanawasa made a big mistake 2 appoint this old man straight from the village but i think he didnt know this old man was a close friend of this murderer (Chiluba). Coz Chiluba is very dangerous. Kaunda knows him very well.
I really feel sorry for Mwanawasa. R.B & the mafias took his body around the country telling pipo that they would continue his legacy meanwhile they were just mocking him. Now they are uprooting everything he left. Only God knows.
I have not blogged for a long time but this issue calls for my word. It will not matter were you appeal to, wether to supreme court or to God, the star witness to this case is long dead. And the other that is still living will not talk because of the fear of bieng implicated. Ronald Mpenza was the one that engineered the whole thing and even dribbled Chiluba, the other person is Nawakwi who was dribbled by Chiluba. The other two guys you may ask , that is if they can talk , are Ngandu Magande and Samuel Musonda. Friday Ndhlovu may know something. If the post are clever , then let them follow the lead.
#5 & #24, Both of you are SPOT On. ka Chiluba wont even attend todays memorial. He cant afford to Visit the Grave of Levy cause he knows what he did, he never attended Burial nor any commemoration & we wont force him. He knows what he and his BOYS did. All Service Chiefs are In Jail or Jail Birds Just out on bail because of theft/corruption Like Chiluba thieves. Senior Men Like Katele, Zanaco Former MD Musonda, Francis Kaunda, Richard Sakala former FTJ henchmen are convicts. So the only way was to elliminate Levy and usher in RB to free them. Levy was Killed. God Your country bleed, Lord heal us & Cage these thieves. Levy RIP! Even KK once said Chiluba KIlled his Son Wezi.
Mmembe writes, “And Sata’s promise to free Chiluba and all other plunderers from the corruption charges they are today facing, is a dishonest and corrupt approach to public affairs”.
“We have shown today that Sata has no commitment to any principles. His own mouth is his own worst enemy. He says one thing today and when it suits him tomorrow, he changes. What is insulting about his behaviour is that he expects people to accept this. For him, politics is about telling people what he thinks they want to hear” writes Mmembe now a Sata Vuvuzela principlelessly.
I Remember, not me saying it but one former employee on the copperbelt languishing because Chiluba made him lose his Job due the the privatised company later went under, up to now he has never been paid his dues. he said and I Quote ” Chiluba has made my life so miserable, most of my friends died of depression because we have never been paid our dues up to now, I can KILL CHILUBA for pleasure” end of Quote. this shows how deep resenting FTJ has on the copperblet. So come 2011 no matter how many billions are pumped into copperbelt, PF will carry the day.
#27 Patriot answer whether Chiluba is a theif, a LAZO, UMUNG’O, IMPUPU, KAWALALA.or Not. Mr. Sata was not privy to Chilubas theft. Nowhere has it been said in trial or Chiluba himself that Sata was involved or he stole with him. So Sata was not aware and believed that Chuiluba was innoconcent until Levy revealed to him. Period. Chiluba is a thief, A LAZO so dont blame it on Sata, Chiluba stole with his henchmen who are now in jail, in Prison some just temporarily out on Bail but to Go back. Chiluba is a thief Period.
Amoral and opportunistic Mmembe writes, “This clearly demonstrates that Sata and his mascot Dr Scott are nothing but shameless demagogues, promising people what they know they won’t be able to deliver”.
As for Dr Scott’s threat to launch a complaint against us with the Electoral Commission of Zambia, we will be more than happy to appear before any competent tribunal to justify our statements.
Wittingly Sata said “FTJ as former leader was being “persecuted by Mwanawasa because he was bemba”.
Mmembe writes,
We know Michael Sata has the propensity to twist things or certain facts to suit his selfish agenda. We also know that Sata has a soft spot for all the people accused of plunder of national resources. That is why we are not surprised to hear him claim that Xavier Chungu’s illegal exist from Zambia was facilitated for him by the government. But in whose interest does this pathological liar called Sata want to twist straight facts?
Mmembe writes about his new boss,
What he is trying to do now is to deliberately mislead our people for his cheap political popularity. Sata wants to portray himself as someone who always knows something about everything. He wants to speak with such authority on every issue even when he knows little or nothing about it.
Mmembe writes,
But Sata should be reminded that his evil naturecould triumph over truth. He can try to manipulate truth for his personal gain but truth will always prevail. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, the innocent one will always be vindicated.
Mmembe writes,
Sata should not think that he can deceive our people all the time. Yes, he can successfully do that sometimes but he will do well to remind himself that he will have to tell a thousand lies to defend one lie. He should also remember that lies have very short legs to stand on.
And from his talk, we can say that it is Sata himself, and not the government, who knows more about Chungu’s illegal exit from Zambia because he is disclosing things about Chungu’s movements outside the country.
TIZ LUNGU HOW TRANSPARENT ARE YOU CAN WE AUDIT YOUR BOOKS. WHO FUNDS AND HOW MANY ARE YOU IN YOUR KANTEMBA NGO. GOODWELL LUNGU GO TO HELL AND GIVE FTJ A BREAK. WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN YOU AND NOT OUR COURTS. IN 2006 SATA CLEARED FTJ AND TODAY THE SAME SATA SAYS FTJ IS A THIEF. LUNGU YOU ARE NOTHING BUT VUVUZELA FOR SATA AND MMEMBE
ZAMBIANS PLS WAKE UP!!! IF LONDON JUDGEMENT IS PROGRESSIVE, WHY HAVE THEY FAILED TO RECOVER EVERYTHING RECOVERABLE IN EUROPE INCLUDING THE SO CALLED FUNDS IN ZAMTROP ACCOUNTS AND OTHER ASSETS FOR CHILUBA IN EUROPE. IF WHAT WAS STOLLEN IS IN ZAMBIA, THEN WHY NOT OPEN A DOCKET HERE IN ZAMBIA.
TIZ KNOWS THAT THE CLOSING OF CHILUBA CASE MEANS NO FLOW OF MONEY FROM HIS DONORS BECOZ IT WAS INCLUDED IN HIS PROPOSAL TO FINANCING AGENTS. SORRY YOU FIND OTHER WAYS OF RAISING MONEY.
BY THE WAY, TIZ IF U ARE TRANSPARENT, WHY DONT YOU PUBLISH ALL YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCRUTNEY INCLUDING PETTY CASH ACCOUNT.
#1 &35 If it was pro Chiluba/RB TIZ was going to be a genuine NGO. Muleba fair. You know very well that the courts havent said FTJ is not guilty- They have released him on technicalities which could be challenged in future.
:)TIZ ARE JUST CONMEN MASQUARADING AS NGO. UYU LUNGU LIKULUKU TOGETHER WITH LIFUKA THEY HAVE TO VUVUZELA IF THEY ARE TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLES AND DRIVE BIG CARS.YOU CANT HOODWINK UP IMWE BANGWELE AS #37 REAL ISSUE MAN SAYS SHOW US YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OR SURRENDER THEM TO HTAT WOMAN AT AUDITOR GENERAL OFFICE
GOODWELL LUNGU STANYOKO.YOU ARE THE SAME BAND OF CONS WHO ARE PRETENDING TO BE CHAMPIONING ZAMBIA’S CAUSE YET WITHIN YOUR ORGANISATIONS YOU PIGS ARE SO CORRUPT THAT YOU DON”T EVEN TOLERATE DISSENTING VIEWS FROM YOUR SURBODINATES.INFACT YOU ASSHOLES ALSO USE YOUR INSTITUTIONS TO SPEAK LOUD AND DUPE SLEEPY ZAMBIANS SO THAT NEXT TIME YOU TURN INTO POLITICIANS THEY VOTE FOR YOU AND YOU START LOOTING GOVT COFFERS.WHERE IS SILLY MWANAJITI WITH HIS AFRONET.YOU ATE ALL THE SAME MWE MITITI MWE
I think the fight against corruption should be revisited. Objectives reset and strategies be outlined. Not the Levy fight against corruption focused only on certain individuals while others are left scot free like Mabenga.
This has just been a circus and a waste of money. The Nchitos are now rich thanks to Levy
yes Regina Mwanza and kafupi shud not celebrate just yet..chiluba is a thief…!!!