THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says it cannot reprimand a South Africa-based law professor Michelo Hansungule for his attacks on the judiciary because he is not their member.
LAZ president Stephen Lungu said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the association has written and reprimanded a number of lawyers who have launched attacks on the Judiciary with one of them being Rodger Chongwe.
Mr Lungu was reacting to former Patriotic Front secretary general Edward Mumbi who yesterday challenged LAZ to tell the nation whether Professor Hansungule is their member or not for him to make disparaging remarks against the Zambian Judiciary.
“He (Professor Hansungule) is not our member, not to my knowledge. Any lawyer who has attacked the Judiciary has been written to and reprimanded. But we cannot do so with Professor Hansungule because he is not our member,” he said.
Mr Lungu said LAZ has rules that govern lawyers and punishes erring ones including those in Government.
He said LAZ does not want any lawyer to attack the Judiciary because this demeans the law profession.
And Mr Mumbi said it is surprising that Professor Hansugule who claims to be a qualified lawyer, does not know how the Zambian Judiciary operates.
He wondered how a law professor can call for a travel ban on President Banda over Government’s refusal to appeal against Judge Evans Hamaundu’s decision to register the London High Court judgement which found former President Frederick Chiluba and seven others liable for the loss of US$46 million Zambian public funds.
Mr Mumbi also accused Prof Hansungule of launching attacks on the Judiciary and the Zambian political establishment.
He was reacting to an article which appeared in the Sunday Post of August 29, 2010 in which it quoted Prof Hansungule as having urged Britain and other countries to impose a travel ban on President Banda over alleged corruption.
“It is said that he harbours presidential ambitions of which he is entitled as a Zambian, but lacks a constituency. Professor per se is not a constituency,” he said.
Mr Mumbi wondered how a law professor should criticise what goes on in the court when the Judiciary operates independently.
He said it is shocking for a professor of Human Rights in Pretoria to fail to understand the doctrine of separation of powers in Zambia’s constitutional system.
Mr Mumbi said he understands constitutional provisions that nobody including the President can interfere in judicial determinations and administration.
He wondered how someone can bring the name of the President in decisions made by the courts.
“If the President had control of the courts, could the government be losing cases and major opposition leaders like Mr Michael Sata be winning cases?” he asked.
Mr Mumbi said Prof Hansungule’s call for a travel ban on President Banda, who was democratically elected in a free and fair election, is a serious misunderstanding constitutional democracy, international diplomacy and how courts operate.
[Zambia Daily mail]
Ba Mumbi are you sure the ZAMBIAN Judciary is independent or you are just one them chaps begging for jobs from the MMD? If The Zimbabwean President and many others have suffered travell bans, what’s so special with RB if it’s found out that the man’s with impudence, erring without remorse?
For the information of Mr Mumbi and the likes of him, Prof. Hansungule is a qualified lawyer. To the best of my knowledge Prof. Hansungule has taught Law in more than two universities and cannot be compared to useless turncoats like Mumbi. Surely everyone in the world knows that the Zambian judiciary and the Zambian government are being turned into circus acts. A travel ban for RB and those in government will be in order.
Hansungule behaves like he is the alpha and omega of the law through his vuvuzela the Post newspaper.
ya buti ba LT please stop putting up this pic! buti aka kantu ka lungu..very attractive man! kasuma aka kantu..awe jelous down!
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LAZ, but this Prof is Zambian. So does it mean that he has not qualified to practice law in Zambia? I say this because most of us Zambian professional maintain our membership of Zambian professional bodies regardless of our location in the world.
There is no LAZ any more. It is a wing of MMD
sata libolo! wali pena mwana haha! walila? how are u today my friend?
#5 SATA LI BOLO(lya kwa wiso)- Problem with a rumour even when it has no leg to stand on it will some how get around.
:-?#5 l do not think this is a platform for such comments. Lets discuss issues here that will help develop zambia. We want to see people analyse issues not who is homo or lesbian. by this am protecting you too because you might think you are hidden yet not and so if someone said you are HIV positive, imagine the stigma on your part?
You are Zambia but speak that language right there for it is not for us here.
Can someone tell us what qualifications this Mumbi has for us to know if there is need to address his issues. I thought he is just a Kandansa type who doesn’t deserve any serious intellectual discourse with.
Its pathetic for LAZ to be getting orders from Mumbi. They have ceased to be professionlal, if they can wait for instructions fron cadres before they can act on anything. What is their stand on the FTJ acquital issue. They don’t seem to have any thats why they are pandering after membe or Mumbi. Shame on Lungu he is not fit for LAZ presidency
Let th professor speak ihs mind, after all this is also his country. Mumbi is an empty tin whose tantrums should not bother all well meaning Zambians coz his job is to bootlick!
abena de javu awe namu ponta bane. its a rumour so its 50/50 bane. if anything being homo is a sexual preference. doesnt make one less human. but personally i dont favour it. buti i will just say that ka lungu is handsome, i am a man but its true. nizee
This Edward Mumbi thing is just a use.less kaponya from city market & failure in life who is just trying 2 feed his empty stomach. Who the hell does he think he is to start questioning the learned Lawyer Prof
Hansungule one of the few Internationally recognised manpower from poor zed? I order this kaponya (Mumbi) to shut his beak!!
“He said LAZ does not want any lawyer to attack the Judiciary because this demeans the law profession.” NO sir, the legal profession demeans itself by having members in the judiciary who lack integrity and fail to discharge their duties professionally and without prejudice.
Is Mr Lungu suggesting that if the Judiciary is not seen to be serving justice then their should be a cover up by all Lawyers so that they protect their income? That is not what the legal profession is about Mr Lungu. You risk reducing Laz to a club status with your irresponsible 11th hour comments.
LAZ should champion freedom and justice. They should represent the masses when they see injustice. This LAZ administration is the most inept and dysfunctional i have ever seen.
Thankfully their are still Lawyers out there who are not willing to put up with such nonesense – Lawyers whose shoes Mr Lungu is not fit to clean.
simon mune.. is lt paying you to blogg? haha. nizee
HANSUNGULE UBUVUVUZELA, KWATI TEBA-PROFESSOR.AMA-JEALOUS NOBUPUBA.
#9 Deja vu waba afro pa chinena chitole,the heart of the matter tomba noko is that Hansugule is a scum,whatever headlines he grabs from the post have no impact on the zambian populace just like sata.Hansungule is just used as pawn by membe to fight rupiah.so noko indiki fimo kwishiba
lol buti sata libolo alikwata ka vocab bane nizee. iwe ka sata where r u stationed mune? u are the contacts we need. but take note abena dejavu are old timers mune. valikwata ka influence. othwewise nizee bane. deuces mwawumfwa?
edward nyandule mumbi..too much njala mambala iwe..
why doesnt mumbi ask his wife, who was lectured by Hansungule? She will ably educate him that the good prof of law just hasnt been bothered to get a practising certificate hence not laz but that doesnt take away anything, he just doesnt stand in courts for good reason, he thinks the courts have nil integrity, dont blame him. mumbi just go to night school and sto living off the sweat of women, silly cockroach (mpemfu)
Mr Edward Mumbi, on whose side are you?? Bwezani Banda with Titus Mpundu Chabala Kafupi “Chiluba” or the people of Zambia?? It appears you must be a very cunfused man after leaving the position of Secretary General of PF. Surely, do you honestly believe that Bwezani recognises separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution?? Was Bwezani Banda not the vice president when George Kunda travelled to London to present the case of the people of Zambia?? Where were you Mumbi//
LT, Why do you allow bad words written in Bemba by blogar 20?? If they were in English you would not have printed them.
is it true what I hear about this prof that despite him being huge he has very tiny utu mapuli? awe it’s not fair, but how?
elyo ati utubantu who looks like aka ka Lungu etukwata ifimabolo ifikulu! but why????????
hahaha galedu! ya walipena mune buti chachinay mune. utubantu utu twalikwata ama tanker mune! haha. awe u have made my day, its very hard to do that but u have mune. nizee
the point Ed is saying is that the so called Prof is an empty tin who just makes the loudest noise using his vuvuzela the post! he has no integrity no wonder he is not a member of LAZ. and the whole thing about Chiluba case has just been benefiting dem damn lawyers! they have really cashed in on this one! how can people be casing someone for US$500,000.00 and spend US$13million on lawyer fees? it does not make sense to me!