Government has dismissed speculations that it is behind the calls to have chief justice Ernest Sakala to be fired.
Chief government spokesperson Fackson Shamenda says that it is unfair to speculate such rumors.
They have growing calls from different stakeholders to have the government dismiss the current chief justice.
The stakeholders state that as part of the call for the judicial reforms government should ensure that the chief justice is relieved of his duties.
But on the other hand, some opposition political parties and civil society organizations have objected such calls.
Yesterday The Alliance for Good Governance which is a consortium of civil society organizations, the labour movement and other interest groups stated that there are against the calls for the removal of Chief Justice Ernest Sakala.
They state that though they support the judicial reforms, they strongly feel that such an approach will merely jeopardize the good intentions of government and the aspirations of the Zambian people to see a reformed judicial system in Zambia.
But Mr. Shamenda says that each person has a constitutional right to state individual opinions on matters of national interest.
QFM
Shamenda,
Your is sub-level damage control after a landmark humiliating constitutional debacle. Keep this drivel to yourself. Silence is Golden.
Shamenda, Authentically your unorthodox schemes are of establishing an absolute dictatorship a desperate ploy that will not work in our hard won nascent democracy because your narcissistic tactics of sponsoring hooliganism against states of democracy are against the peaceful aspirations majority Zambians too smart and resolved on realizing a just and constitutional society.Â
Shamenda, Authentically your unorthodox schemes are of establishing an absolute dictatorship a desperate ploy that will not work in our hard won nascent democracy because such narcissistic tactics of sponsoring hooliganism against estates of democracy are against the peaceful aspirations of majority Zambians too smart and resolved on realizing a just and constitutional society.Â
Whatever!
THE OPPOSITION ARE JUST FRAUSTRATED ABOUT THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE 3 HIGH COURT JUDGES. AND THEY ARE JUST HOOD WINKINK THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE IN BELIEVING THAT THE PROSECUTION OF THE JUDGES ARE ILLEGAL BUT THOSE ZAMBIANS WHO ARE CLEVER KNOWS THAT NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW.. FOOLISH POLITICIANS WILL NOT WIN THEIR ARGUMENTS. FULL STOP
With daft heads such as Shamenda, Sebastian Zulu, Sekeni, Kabimba and GBM being hearts and minds of the President’s decision making, Zambians are increasingly fearing that the legacy of President Sata could be of confusion, unconstitutionality, narcissistic decisions, failure and dangerous stability. Spirited Zambians will never allowed a veneer of democracy to take hold of their aspirations.Â
Fred is the one calling for change. He  wants  juxges that cansweep 14billion kwacha under the carpet. Watchh this space
Whether it is “unfair to speculate such rumors” as Shamenda tells us hardly answers the question of what State House’s real position is.Â
If Government is not behind the calls to have the Chief Justice fired (as the headline would have us believe), Shamenda should have stated clearly that Chief Justice Sakala should not resign and must be allowed to finish his term. Simple. He could also have taken the opportunity to express Government’s commitment to an independent judiciary as a pillar of the Constitution.Â
Instead, Mr. Shamenda gives us a bunch of gobbledygook about unfair rumors and obligatory dose of finger pointing at “some opposition political parties”…. what a waste.Â
ba KACHIGAMBA nge nsoni !?
even a fool can reason better !
zambians sgud just realise that they made a mistake bringing in kaponyas and ukwa
the chaps can’t just reason
modern economics require technocrats not these the likes of shamendas (ba shi mine ba mu colonial)
Sata and his sycophants want to run the country the way they have been running their kantemba pf party of riff raffs. What they don’t know is that Zambia unlike their party is a country which has a large number of normal folk. Whereas pf is full of dimwits, and sycophants.
Unless President Sata redeems himself from a legion of jobseekers in his cabinet and indeed thieves belaboring to rob poor Zambian mothers and an army of unemployed youth only stuffed with empty slogans, citizens may find President Sata to be Zambia’s modern-day pharaoh too occupied with unholy alliances in webs of complicity.Â
With his authority already humiliated by the pro-democracy masses, constitutional outcomes in the courts of justice, some exponentially growing adverse public opinions among Zambians as is in the diplomatic corridors, none availability of people to be silenced by his imaginary supremacy and absolute security apparatus increasingly leaving his words and that of his job seeking league such as Sebastian Zulu and Shamenda are only demonstrating how out of touch the President is quickly becoming. Free advice: It’s time to realign the wheels and put the house in order before wrecking up self because in Zambia real power belongs to the people who can never be manipulated.
dull chaps..you know how much PF wants CJ out..please shave sir!
hehehehehe. You thought that you could walk over everyone. Please let Seb Zulu resign before he embarrasses illiterate sata more
The president needs fearless advisers,not only those who tell him wat will please him
Shamenda, Shamenda where have you been all this time ? Mmembe and his Post started this rot way back in December 2011. At least Sebastian Saizi Zulu, State Cancel, tried to defend the Chief Justice and Mmembe’s response to that and what he wrote about the Minister’s alleged corrupt past is on record. The poor Minister of Justice was intimidated into submission and the rest of his erratic actions since then is history. You Shamenda and your boss did not even come to the defence of your own cabinet colleague, therefore we are not wrong to conclude that you and your boss were behind the scheme to silence the Judiciary. Now shut up bwana Minister before I call you names!
So bwana Spokesperson, what you are telling us is that the state is capable of doing such things?
Shamenda that’s BIG lies, The minister of Justice(judiciary) said it all…what must be noted tho is: The problem is NOT the Judiciary ,Neither  Sata/ president.The problem is the ROTTEN and OUTDATED GOVERNANCE SYSTEM as provided for in the poor constitution thus the need for a NEW CONSTITUTION to capture &remove such corrupt POWERS in the executive, share the INDEPENDENCE of the constitutional POWERS AND FINANCES across all key governance institutions.This case exposes both the Executive and the Judiciary that they have NO CONFIDENCE in their governance system. Let alone the Judicial complaints Authority, Judicial service commission and the Judiciary itself (Malawi Judge). Sata must now constitute (NOT JUDICIARY)BUT JDICIAL SYSTEM REFORMS with clear guidelines founded on JUST SOCIETY.
Batu! Mutompei Shamenda fa pata ki mpana!
Let govt spokschap go on air and codenm thoz callin for cj quits
 One day  you will lose that hama to bailifs. Just pay back k 14b. Infact you boast of big gest volumee sales per day
Most likely the state has a hand and that explains why so many organizations seem to be excited about it. There so many things going wrong, why can’t they react?
So the state is merely amplifying calls from Mmembe, just like when it came to ‘firing’ the 3 judges, te?
Objectivity is good…every Zambian knows that we have a rotten judiciary which only jails poor people while the rich ones are always released. So we want reforms in the judiciary period.
Congratulations Dr. Nevers for phase two of Zambia Shall Be Saved. You are our Moses. These men are Evil but be of good cheer. We are born to win. All authority is from God though we know that some Kings like ours now and Pharaoh were raised by God to show his power of deliverance.
There is no truth in that, how can the Government which has Constitutional powers to remove the Chief Justice at any given time, seek to influence the call for the Chief Justice to step down.
Let me remind you, you MMD stogies, that the President has power to terminate the contract of any Judge including the Chief Justice without any one raising a figure.
So it is stupid of you stogies to think that the Government spokesman honorable Shamenda is being economical with facts.
Get it from me your Chief Justice will soon go whether you like it or not, he has to go, for he is now a disgrace to the Nation. Â
people like kajimanga are not suporse to be judges in a country like zambia. these guys are very corrupt. look at how they even handled the PF petitions!!!! it was very pathetic. let kajmanga and his friends gooo and hang, they are very corrupt elements in our judicialy.
Shamenda’,You want people believe that you respect the rule of law when infact not.people cant trust you,except for your fellow *****S.
#26 levies matipa or whatever you and your associates call yourself,you must be so behind.The chief justice is not like a ministrial post where you hire and fire at will you *****.You must be the worst dot in the swarm of Pf *****s.You cant see how your senior ***** at state house is disgraced by her lordship chisanga.stupid *****s.
#27 Don, I didn’t know that a Judge dismissing a silly PF petition prepared by lawyers like Kabimba can be a definition of corruption in the Judiciary. Looks like I have to go back to school in order to understand PF logic!
The judiciary is corrupt and needs a complete overhaul starting from the TOP!
I cant understand why people are shielding the investigation of corrupt judges…proper investigations will not only expose the corrupted judges but will also expose the corrupt litigants and corrupt defendants! (like the K14 billion defendants)
I thought everyone agreed that the judiciary has corrupt elements. However, that is not the issue here. The issue is Rule of Law. It process by which govt is choosing to clean it up that stinks!Â
why not sata needs to know what is what
It is amazing how empty PF supporters are. Either they have suspended their thinking abilities to get paid or they are verily stupid.
The English they use is a marker of their intellect. The fools actually think that the executive branch of grz is almighty! They are soooooo wrong!
8/60 months are gone. You are well past 10% of your time and cocking up badly. At the end of your tenure, you will be begging for more time and we will respond with jail terms for abuse of office. Zulu at Min of Energy, you will be tried and jailed, so will all you ps’s, directors and such like. Oh you can shine now but tick tick tick, time is ticking and you cannot claim or change yesterday.