MALAWIAN Judge, Lovemore Chikopa, who is chairperson for the tribunal set up to probe three judges, will for now remain in Zambia despite a stay granted by the courts against the proceedings.
Justice Minister, Sebastian Zulu said in Lusaka in an interview that Mr Justice Chikopa would for now remain in the country and that a decision would only be made when the Supreme Court sets a date for the appeal hearing.
Two of the three suspended judges, Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga have obtained a stay to prevent the tribunal from sitting to hear their alleged impropriety pending the full determination of the judicial review by the High Court.
The two Judges are asking the High Court to quash President Michael Sata’s decision to constitute a tribunal to conduct investigations of alleged impropriety or incompetence.
[pullquote]“If the Supreme Court takes a longer time to hear the matter, I agree that the judge should first go back to Malawi until the matter is disposed of in court,” Mr Zulu said.[/pullquote]
High Court Judge, Fulgence Chisanga, last week granted the duo leave to apply for judicial review which would operate as a stay of Mr Sata’s decision.
Mr Zulu noted that since the tribunal was appointed by President Sata, it was only him that could advise otherwise.
“If the Supreme Court takes a longer time to hear the matter, I agree that the judge should first go back to Malawi until the matter is disposed of in court,” Mr Zulu said.
Several sections of society have called for Mr Justice Chikopa’s to return home pending the disposal of the case in which the two judges are disputing the decision by President Sata to set up a tribunal.
Supreme Court Justice, Phillip Musonda, who was suspended together with the two Judges, is however, not party to the legal proceedings.
Ba Zulu- What is really wrong with you kanshi ? We now know who you are mr state cancer. Are you personally going to foot the bills for him?
More Money in Chikopa s pocket.
Chikopa will be bungee jumping tomorrow at vic falls using tax payer’s money. What I dont understand is that if he is such a renowned judge that we have single source him from Malawi, does he not have pending cases to preside over in Malawi? Does that some poor souls in Malawi will have to wait for their cases to be heard until the Zambians sort themselves out?
How about another tribunal to investigate his continued stay!
why not let chikopa go and then call him ONLY IF the supreme court rules i favor of govt ?
He must taste imichopo pali Joe Mbuzi before he leaves.
dont worry about the bill /its a small thing
Tioneko lelo, interesting state of affairs. The drama continues
Chikopa’s stay in Zambia means the government is determined to undermine our courts of law. The same government that wants to fight against corruption in the judiciary wants to use the courts of law to bend to its pressure. Its time Zambians rose to defend the judiciary. Meanwhile, the judiciary should reform but not at government’s pace. Let the reforms be dictated by the judiciary itself unless every man and woman in the judiciary is corrupt!
This is unbelievable, nowonder Zambia will never reach its full potential. We have so much money to waste. Judge Chikopa will have aready been paid, kept and fed for two weeks when Malawi is only an hour’s flight away! Is this a govt that cares for the economic development of the country or is it one that is up to destroying as MCS said yesterday that a little corruption is ok?
guys as you think about chikopa, have in mind those innocent people who could not afford an injuction rotting in jail. if only they were heard but no one gives a damn. if the judges in question are innocent, why getting afraid to be probed? all of us must own up and be responsible. its the judges waisting our time not chikopa. see our friends from the philipines have just sacked one judge and no one is raising a hand. these people are corrupt and must be probed.
Abuse of power at its best. That’s the problem when you elect retirees or too old people to rule. How can the youngest Minister be 69yrs old?
Kenneth Konga, Former Minister of Energy has collapsed during interogation by the task force on Corruption. he he he. They want to grab the Hotel he has been building as suspected to be Proceeds of crime. lelo. he is losing it same with RB’s son Andrew to lose the house as that is where the corrupt signing of the 2% exstortion case took place. Ala case ya Proceed of Crime yalatupwisha.
Mu funya kwisa data yaifi?
Zambian politicians get easily drunk with power,this is utter nonsense coming from the state cancer,Chikopo’s home is just one hour’s flight away.Is somebody getting a cut from his allowances? Ati govt for the poor atase tiyene uko.
apparently govt is not footing Chikopa’s bills..Malawi is footing his bills in appreciation of receiving 5 million litres of our fuel…its an advanced barter system that you simple Zambians cant understand.. dull chaps
I think Sebestian Zulu, has a BIG problem I now realise why Mr. Sata refered to his report as USELESS! CHIKOPA’S stay here translates into hefty allowances at the expense of tax payers. Above all how do you expect him to chair the tribunal? From the look of things the Government have a stake in Chikopa’s warefare that is the reason why Mr. Zulu, is failing to come out clearly.
Just send me the bill, mwe inchushi mwe. If Malila Mumba’s appeal goes through and I lose, you can always add costs including hotel bills and jilijilis consumed by Chikopa.
#15 The Peoples Defender. Very funny!!
Actually Judge Chikopa could be doing it for free. Humanitarian grounds. or in appreciation of the fuel donation. Leave the man alone.
jJUDGE CHIKOPA YOU ARE MOST WELL COME TO STAY AT THE LUSAKA PAMODZI HOTEL FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE PROVIDED YOU FINISH THE JOB THAT YOU BEEN CALLED FOR AND BRING JUSTICE TO OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM WHICH HAD COLLAPSED DURING THE MMD REGIME.DONT WORRY ABOUT THE OPPOSITION BARKING DAY AND NIGHT AS THEY ARE JUST FINISHED POLITICIANS..
No 19 you are rite,even these bloggers they just support things blindly.Regina Tembo aquitted by same judges after being found with evidence and being found guilty.Same judges agreeed in UK that FTJ was guilty they came here ati iyoo we do our own judgement-he is free!and you dont want them to be ivestigated.Seemingly MCS made a mistake when appointing tribunal but shd that stop judges form being investigated.Kuleni bane…
Chikopa can leave before visiting our savage restaurants at Soweto market!!!
Keeping Chikopa is tantamount to corruption ! Let the ***** go back to Malawi. PF government is a Shame to any sane person. How do pay huge money for nothing when people are dying in queue in Mpulungu due to poverty.
Amfumu ososkonezeka…oh pepani olemekezeka a chikopo oh pepani a chikopa…..pitani kwanu ku mudzi chifukwa pothela pake zikuchitotsani manyazi zinthu…. anyamata a Zambia lai nagati anyamata a chipolopolo…. pali njomba kwabasi…inu pitani basi…moni kwa amai A JB!
You chaps think Judge Lovemore will just go back to Nyasaland and start work on Monday morning in court in Blantyre. The man was just sworn-in and has asked for leave from his government for 3 months, who do you think is going to pay him when he goes home.
These silly opposition politicians should bring bread and butter issues like the draft constitution that affect the common man not drivel.
Chikopo is being lined up for the Chief Justice Job, his only competitor so far is Wood.
Chkopo now ringing his fingers waiting for Sakala’s 2 months on the contract to elapse. Enter C J Chikopo!
your name made my day. . . . . . . .hunting njiwa in the wild somewhere petauke or chadiza ka
lol, spot on!
Amfumu a Chikopa onani kuno allowance mukutenga….kuja ku malawi salary ikulowa mthumba mwanu? Kodi nchito mukugwira ndi iti? Kodi chiphuphu chimene mukuimbila malandu anzanu si chimenechi? Koma auzeni a President Sata kuti muzabwera zinthu zika khala bwino….fumbi kapena kavuluvulu akatha!
Warning to all African leaders Taylor has been given 50 years! Yes.
@ 27..if taylor got 50 yrs george bush deserves 2
geeorge bush deserves 200 yrs
Zambians should demand that the government, as a matter of transparency, discloses to the general public as the interested party( being tax payers), how much the importee, judge Chikopa is gobbling from their hard earned contributions through his unproductive and protracted stay in the country
Mweo akwasu a Sebastian Size Zulu, State Cancer, why wait for the Supreme Court to set a date for the appeal? We are talking about saving public funds here, what has Chikopa got to do with the appeal in the Supreme Court?
Chikopo also has no morals, why cant he go home and return when needed.
A Sebe mweo ndimwe a chikopo…koma munapasa law sure olo ni crooks tyala!
Let’s us dwell on the current issue that is probing the judges please we need a clean judiciary
Kapena a prizidenti anali fast too much kuchita appoint amene asikulu a chikopa. Sembe anayembekezako pang’ono. Onani manje a chikopa ali kudya michopo ndi supu ya mbuzi pali Joe Mbuzi ya ulele
Whether he goes back or stays, Chikopa will continue being on GRZ payroll until released by HE MCS. Who wouldn’t love being Lovmore this time around?
This PF is moving away from the ideals that we believed in when we voted them into power! They have become arrogant, insolent and divisive! In one breathe, the justice Minister says, he will obey the law, in the next one he says the law implementers are a sham! Even their cahorts (The Post) have become a law unto themselves. Not a single day, passes without the defacto advisor to government, insulting the judges at will! The next elections seem far away, but time will catchup with them. Even Mmembe wont come to their defence! Saize will go back to peddling the backstreet as he was doing, this time last year!
Seems Zambia has got loads of money to waste.But then again, this Chikopa name rhymes with copper and Zambia’s got plenty of copper.Feel right at home Chikopa.
This is now fire the judiciary is playing with. The executive can fire the whole bench and reconstitute it like what Kibaki did in Kenya. If the supreme court waivers by delaying the case or reaffirming Chisanga’s ruling, Sata should fire them all, appoint Roger Chongwe and foreign judges to realign our judiciary. Enough is enough with this stupidity.
All you bloggers going on about corrupt judges etc, how does making a ruling based on the facts before him make a judge corrupt? Did some- one pay the Judge money to fix Mmembe and Nchito? why is he being called a liar ? Because he told the nation the truth about what happens to their hard earned cash ,why some people are asked to pay hundreds of kwachas or be bankrupted whilst some rich accountant cum journalist cum lawyer and hhis lawyer cronies (including a Director Of Public Prosecutions no less!!) is allowed to try and wriggle out of settling K14 billion by using their knowledge of both law and accounting to their advantage.
Your Excellency sir, see these slandering ,conniving thieves or what they are and steer cler of them. They attack defenseless judges, the *****s !!!!!:-?
PF govt has made too many not well thought through decisions i.e.setting up of the tribunal before all channels are undertaken. Now we have a judge being paid for doing absolutely nothing, when in this very country some people are going to bed without a meal after supporting this govt with all they had in Sept 2011. PF need to realize that there is a job to be done and not passing jokes at the bridge in Stone. Stop being controlled by M’membe’s editorials and start governing the nation. We need clear policy formulation to address the many issues affecting our people. We cannot feed our people by keeping Chipoka on a payroll for doing nothing. PF pse listen and do the right thing in the name of human dignity. As for corruption and oil contracts buying, stop this at once.
Kwa mandevu is inviting you Mr chikopa for ka mosi kozizira maningi…Penagu muletako ka chambo ayi…..?
Waste of space and money this man is.