Government has said that Malawian Judge Lovemore Chikopa will remain in the country until the judicial review matter in the Courts is concluded.
Three Judges namely Charles Kajimanga, Nigel Mutuna and Philip Musonda have challenged their suspension in the courts of law by President Micheal Sata thereby stalling the sittings of the tribunal appointed to probe them.
Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni said that the nation should not worry about government’s expenditure on Judge Chikopa.
Mr. Sakeni said that the Zambian government invited the Malawian Judge into the country and will out of courtesy take care of him whilst in Zambia.
In an exclusive interview with QFM, Mr. Sakeni said that people should realize that running a government is not cheap.
He said that government needs to exhaust all available avenues for the matter to be handled in a transparent manner.
Mr. Sakeni, who is also Information and Broadcasting Services Minister, said that Zambians should be fair and respect what Judge Chikopa is in the country for.
The Chief Government Spokesperson wondered why the engagement of the Malawian Judge to head a tribunal to probe the judges has become an issue when even Zambians are engaged by other countries for similar tasks yet no eye brows are raised.
QFM
Wish we had a better constitution, and good governance structures better than these Sir Raphael Welensky, this Chipoka Judge and PF would not have this field day…. “Im not obliged to believe the same God who has endowed us with sense,reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use
Two things are infinite; the universe and govt’s stupidity, I don’t know about the universe……
Government is not the solution to our problems, Government is the problem…..
Chipoka obtaining money for undelivered service- corruption! Hope he does not pollute our girls &leave bastards in zambia. Seriously this CONSTITUTION is rendering Zambians toothless, exploited ,exposing them to vulnerability and abuses govt after govt.Will state this again n again! A revolution needed, Two urgent agendas:( 1) Immediately, suspend this barbaric colonial “CONSTITUTION “which continues to breed bad leaders that are heartless, leaders that oppress citizens and the source of our economic exploitation. (2) More urgent too, CHANGING the “GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES and JUDICIAL SYSTEM” that has become a conduit for muzzling people’s democratic FREEDOMS, and RIGHTS. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Chipoka must be dragged out!!
What fair justice and outcome would zambians expect from this already compromised judge chipoka? Chipoka is swimming in the same corruption that corrupted the very alleged Judges he’s been called to investigate. we already know the outcome of Chipoka’s report-public perception is greater& better than self righteousness. chipoka and PF are deepening wounds of abuse&corruption. Justice ,a cherished Ideal is slowly turning into an abused commodity. Everything we fought for at independence is at stake!! In the strictest sense, Legality or Law is not necessarily LAWFUL. What then is the point of wasting money on this disgraced Chipoka?
Well said about the INFINITE!!!
Let him be around untill all the findings are over.
Why?
iwe paolo . . .we have plenty od sakenis like you
But surely – cant he go back to Malawi and then come back later once the courts have made their decision? Why does he have to stay in Zambia?
This is what the Zambian people wanted when they voted in the PF government. We should never complain about their beahvior. It was expected. Sad thing is the cost is being incurred and the Zambians are being denied of improved healthcare, power supply etc. Shame on uncle Chisamu who has no direction in Life
Just tell FRED and NCHITO to pay 14bn or is it 32bn bane…you call yourself upright show us that . We tired of this nonsense. You borrowed just pay back. Dont tell us about your loss, you incured thru Zambia Airways.That is your fault,God allowed it that way cos of your hypocricy FRED maka maka. Your Biklon.
why should judge chikopo continue to be in the country at tax payer’s expense? Sakeni and entire PF tamwa kwata amano ba ngwele
How can we not worry about the cost of hosting him on ‘holiday’ indefinitely????? The other question is DOESNT THIS MAN HAVE A JOB TO DO BACK IN MALAWI???? Honestly, he has cases and other commitments like family to attend to. He can go back to Malawi and return once we have sorted ourselves out….. only in zed!!!!!!
His family is in Zed enjoying your money while you suffer!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy yourself now. My foot…
Mr Sakeni, you personally have lost my PF vote in 2016.
Sakeni we are not against his engagement or the fact that he is not Zambian. We are against the extravagance of keeping him in Zambia doing nothing other than getting allowances, eating and farting in 5 star hotels. We know running govt is not cheap but we will not accept you wasting our money like. 2016 PF is out!
spot on!
Common sense is indeed not common…. Send Chikopo back to Nyasaland and let him come back when he is needed and save on the money…..
yes let him go
someone please give a reason why this man cant go back to malawi and come back to zambia when he’s needed to do his duties, are we not spending more money by keeping him? what if the outcome does not allow him to carry out the inquiry, then we w’d have already lost a lot of money by keeping him for such a long time…i hope that the grz has a valid reason for keeping this man!
Govt isnot cheap to run? BA Sake I do you have to be spending tax payers money as you wish? How many visitor does Sake I have at his home who are just nothing?
If this judge is as revered as he should be to take up such a monumental task that will have significant implications for the judiciary in Zambia, then he should be rather busy. Assuming that is the case surely shouldn’t he be attending to other equally important matters in Malawi and other parts of the world. Is the only entry in his diary “Zambian inquiry” in perpertuity…? I also find some comments from our leaders amusing. Surely was it necessary for Sakeni to say the “…running a govt. is expensive.” This reminds me of the MMD days when in the end the public was belittled with all manner of condescendence…….
That’s it, PF out! I can’t take this ineptitude any more! Help me, I’m having a nervous breakdown!
Chikopo has no sense of proper judgement, does it mean that even he himself can not see that he is wasting tax payers money. If he is a judge wealth his salt, he could seek for leave until pending cases are disposed off, but it now seems he has found a “katemba” to eat from or milk untill he has enough fresh on his body, this is an issue of poverty alleviation on the part of Judge Chikipo. Which poor and retired civil servant like judge Chikopo would refuse free money? The money is busy sorting out his historical debts in Malawi. By the time he goes back to Nyasaland, he would have started on a clean slate of social life, debtless.
How can anyone be so duffed as not see why there is an outcry from many people over this guy’s stay at our expence when he is not doing anything? Is this the leadership people want?
But why can’t this Judge just leave on his own.
He s even gained weight. Atase
If the Govt as stated by Mr. Sakeni is taking care of Judge Chikopa out of courtesy, when the time comes to Chair the tribunal, what should Judge Chikopa do in turn for the Govt of out his courtesy for the Govt’s taking care of him. And there is still more of taking care of him – he will be paid by the Govt for this assignment, how much? Really awkward situation!
the dullness of Mr Sakeni is gigantically appalling to say the least!!! he even has the guts to say pipo shud not worry, come on, the pipo whi are paying for all his expenses shud not worry when its ilogical for him to be in the country now when he is doing nothing????? this is a huge insult to the tax payers. i hope you enjoy in the forest before the bush fire catches up with u.
Does that mean Sakeni will share his salary with this *****? Sakeni waba itole, its our money we are talking about here. Foolish pathetic fools, how did these *****s (pf) managed to corn me on my vote?
Ala i thought abena chikolopo baliya ! Anyway let the man remain so that he finishes his work…nothing wrong here…unless if you are telling me that his stay is unlawfull.
This is not the issue of legality but logic.
You can be legally right but logically wrong.
The question is “what is he doing right now.”
Can the nation spare the expenses government is encouring over the man who is doing nothing?
This issue has nothing to do with ones political affiliation but but sound judgement.
“the nation should not worry about government’s expenditure on Judge Chikopa”then he says “running a government is not cheap”, so why not send him back call him when needed. After all, we are the ones paying taxes.
Judge Chikopa looks like he takes ama ARVs mu matobo. I am pretty sure he is on ART treatment. Anyway he is better than those who are in total denial. Most of us who are wise are on ART treatment and meanwhile, we continue educating our children.
Ba kolwe basekana ifipato namona.Uleseka umunobe ninshi naiwe kalyaka.
Unconstructive contribution.
That injures the people on A.R.V’s
Is this chikopo have a wife/children or not?or he shifted with his family here in zambia lets know please.Who is taking care of his family in nyasalandi’so ninshi alala fye ulupundu.mwefipuba ba CNP.
No, he is Gay!!
Saken is just saying that to protect his JOB,even him he knows that its too expensive to keep a man for such a long time.you will pay for your misdeeds bane,days are numbered.who thought FTJ could be visiting coults during Mwanawas time.next president after Sata should pin sata to death..
*****s in Govt indeed. Ati people should no that running Govt is expensive ah, is this the same SATA who is recorded on Radio chengelo replays complaining about MMD wasting tax payer’s money? This is the worst and most uncaring Govt in our country so far. How can SAKEni give such insulting reasons for keeping this already comprised Judge.
PF is pure CNP….
Kibble@ shut up! behave yourself. every1 takes ART these days there’s no problem, will see old and reach 92yrs just like princess kasune zulu said. as long as you are sexually active without a condom, start taking ARTs for you to have a great shape.
Thanks DR for informing that retard, Kibble. He has no clue about what he is saying.
An african judge can not miss an oppotunity to make money like this one especially being presented by gullible people like UKWA and Sakeni.WE ARE IN SHIT- ZAMBIANS.A wise judge could have excused himself so that we sort out our legal issues then he comes back when everything is settled but he pretends to be dull so that he makes a killing out of our leaders stu.pidity.
Stop wasting tax payers money. Send the judge back to Malawi and call him back when he is needed. Be decisive bwana spokes person.
Sakeni, ” bushe ndalama sha ba noko?????????”
THIS IS TAKING THE MICKEY OUT OF EVERY ZAMBIAN TAX PAYER, & this “tubulu, motor-mouth” has the cheek of asking us not to worry!!!
IT IS TIME PROSPECTIVE YOUNG GUNS IN PF STARTED TAKING POSITIONS, for if you don’t, YOU WILL SINK WITH YOUR CHI BWATO come 2016 OR EVEN BEFORE BECOZ AT THIS RATE ANYTHING IS BOUND TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!! In fact this same Tribunal issue is SOLID GROUND FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF THIS GOVT FOR THEY HAVE FAILED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION WHICH THEY SWORE TO UPHOLD!!!
am okay with this…the same people who r crying that the judiciary is corrupt are the same people who were against judicial review and again are the same people who complain about judgements and sentences that are being made by judges and again are still the same people that are questioning judge chikopa’s stay in zambia! kwena for me i’d rather have him here to wait till the time comes for him to do his job than have him go. his presence will quicken the process than his absence which will slow the process as the corrupt judges will take advantage & prolong the issue unnecessarily!!
Well as #1 indicates above, it seems it’s not only govt which monopolises in the INFINITE mentioned!!!
You are ok because taubomba.
You don’t make any financial contributions to this country except writing comments online.
Responsible people want to see where their money is going.
When the western nations give any nation money, they follow to see how that money was used because they worked for it.
The opposition should unit and demand for his return. They should also unit to point out about these abuses at election time.
Why leave it to the opposition??? Zambian TAX PAYERS & VOTERS SHOULD DEMAND THIS GUY’S DEPARTURE & CURTAIL EXPENSES OF IMPUNITY THAT THIS GOVT SEEMS TO SEE FIT!!! Lets start blowing/hooting horns every mid day till chikopo departs!!!!
Atase!!!This govt has become nauseating and anoying.Come 2016 it will be zwa!Donch kubeba reloaded.They have become so arrogant and drunk with power.We shall see…
Judge Chikopa is compromised. I dont see him rule against his employer SATA, the paymaster.
The onus is on the Judge to recuse himself and offer to come back when the appeal is finalised! But then, the Judge is retired and won’t have much to do (retirement package ya pa Africa), eat (Pamozdi serves better food), cashflow (at $600 a day-even I wouldn’t go back), biased (whatever the outcome of the case will lean towards his paymaster).
On the whol it is payback as Sakeni or ba Saizi might be getting a cut (smooth way to make a buck or two! More commissioners please!
Chikopa is real CNP. What else does this judge do in life? Go back to your country. Umulomo! Chikopa let us zeds sort our problems own our own.
This issue makes my goiter swell with anger. Zambians are capable of solving there own problems. I Don’t like this Joe .Something is really wrong.
Is the tax payers money being wasted by this ‘Expatriate Judge’ going to be the responsiblilty of some currently serving government individuals like the case is with Chanda Chimba? some one answer me!
I am beginning to suspect that the government is hiding something and concealing the truth about the real reason why the Malawian judge is in Zambia. Just wait and see.
PUSO YA MANDWANI, KIKU KANJIMBWELA FEELA. YATASHWA KIYA KAYAWA.
And the *****s have reinstated the abuse of office clause! This is a typical example of abuse of office. GRZ is losing money by the continue presence of this Judge. Come 2016 wina azalila.
Chikopa has spent 1 billion Kwacha tax payer s money in the hotel in terms of meals, out pocket, allowances when people of Zambia are suffering in terms of cholera, load shedding, etc
Chikopa has spent 1 billion Kwacha tax payer s money in the hotel in terms of meals, out pocket, allowances when people of Zambians are suffering in terms of cholera, load shedding, etc
This govt is full of dull people. By the time these criminals are finished there will be no Zambia to speak of . These tribalists are behaving worse than colonialists.
This so called Judge it seems he has nothing to do in his country.Why stay away this long if he has cases to preside on in his country?He is indeed chikopo.
“Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni said that the nation should not worry about government’s expenditure on Judge Chikopa”. These chaps will deplete our reserves by the time they are kicked out of government! Doesn’t the minster know that tax payers have the right to worry. It’s their money. THEY ARE A BUNCH OF CNP’s.
@33 Pixxy, so what will happen if the court rules in favour of the judges? Don’t you see that the tax payers’ money would have been wasted in vain? Will you help to pay back the money then? Malawi is only an hour’s flight to Lusaka and the man can be recalled very easily. Who said the court ruling is dependent on his presence? What if the court decides to postpone the ruling to next year? Will you still advocate to have him in Zambia at tax payers’ expense? Even if you are sympathetic to your PF then use your own money to pay him. No country in world can condone such stupidity.
How much money has so far been spent on Judge Chikopa so far Ba Sakeni? I personally have great respectnfor you sir.
Comrade Sakeni, so we are back to the Shikapwasha days! Just defending, defending, and more defending of wrong moves. Same old broken record. Any chance that you can run Govt. differently from MMD? You cannot tell the Nation not to worry. You the Governors need to Govern us the TAX PAYERS in the most prudent manner. We have the right to question why the country is paying colossal hotel bills to someone who is doing absolutely no work in this country. The other day patients at Chingwere Clinic were up in arms with their area M.P. for not delivering on his campaign promises of improving the health delivery system. The reason the M.P. cannot deliver is because of this same money you are wasting on an unproductive person. Please,I plead, send him back. Call him when time is ripe.
It is best for the PF party to foot Judge Chikopa’s luxurious living in expensive Hotels. Sata’s govt has never settled for a COVENANT with Zambians to squander tax payers money on third rate unprincipled lawyers. Although the Auditor-General acts on fraudlent misuse of public funds after 2 to 3 years of plunder, the national system will act promptly as soon as PF is no more. This Malawian mercenary must go home, otherwise he will soon be honoured with an appropriate title of PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT when God resores sanity in Zambia.
You chaps need to relies that the Judge was sworn-in; you can’t just put him on the plane to Nyasaland and call him again when needed and swear him in again, you know it doesn’t work like that.Remember the judge has been sworn in like any public servant, lets be rational in the way we post comments.
@ Maxwell remove the picture of Fat Albert as he more sound than you are. Even public servants can go on leave or something like that; they are not glued to the position. It is not like if he went to Malawi to save Zambians tax payers money then he would be un-sworn. Be rational yourself!
I wonder ABOUT YOU DEFINITION OF “RATIONAL” or do you always work things in the opposite sense, thus understanding “IRRATIONAL” to be “RATIONAL??”
@50 Maxwell then let them spend your money. Your argument does not hold water. What happens when a judge who has been sworn in goes on leave, is he sworn in again when he comes back from leave? The answer is no. Chikopa will not need to be sworn in again if he went back to Malawi and return when it is necessary for him to do so.
Let Chikopa go back and come back if he is needed.
By this courteous treatment, the judge is already considered compromised and cannot be taken to be impartial hence forth. Don’t lawyers have such objectivity impairement risk fatcors in their professional code? The moment you receive some favours out of grace, you must be deemed non-independent because you depend purely on the goodwill of the one giving you favours. Ccita!
@Maxwell. Are you serious? Read your post again and try to think about it?
this is a very foolish govt how can they say that its ok to waste tax payeers money. suppose te case takes 3 months or 1 yr? they should never to begin with waste a ngwee of our money
Look Mr. minister, no one is opposed to having him on this tribunal but the question everyone is asking concerns the logic of having him in the country when the tribunal is not sitting. Get your acts together and stop treating Zambians like they are not learned enough to put 1 and 1 together. Couldn’t he honestly have gone home and waited until the conclusion of the court proceeding? Suppose, the court finds that, it is illegal for the Govt to conduct this tribunal, what next for the Malawan judge?
Om moral grounds, I’d go home if I were Chikopa. Whatever will be the outcome of the case. This man has lost all credibility. The university which awarded him the law degree should revoke it for his total failure to reason and practice law, furthermore the Malawian government should out of reason and honesty revoke his law practicing license. The world is watching and will never forget this. Muvi TV please interview the guy let him tell us whether he does not know that that Zambia has no money and it is one of the least developed countries in the world because of people like him. Some Africans like him make me sick.
This is an issue that should be raised in Parliament. The MPs should demand to be given a report on how much has been spent so far on keeping our learned friend in the country and to explain his continued presence. After all, that is why these guys are elected into office.
YYYYYYYYYY? He looks ________.
Sakeni is just showing us how dull, poverty stricken and stinking this Chikopo, Sakeni himself, Sata his wife and family are. How come they have not even 1% of common sense. PF is the most arrogant and useless party full of shit from Sata and his fackers 360 degrees. God please help this country by killing Sata and his ageing animals. Chikopo would be dead if I was a witch. These opposition also, why don’t they mobilise and flush out that sick stinking foool from this country. Sata matole yobo ******
Africans are just stupid , even if u give them the most perfect constitution , they will not fellow it…..maybe blackness causes retardation …that’s why many blacks …are so dull …am sorry to say this. You can take the horse to the river but u can don’t force it to drink…white man brought development tot he black continent , we have failed ….because we are black. Let us be honest black has a problem….
You might apply that to a few people, including yourself BUT DON’T GENERALISE!! It is why we are blogging – to get some common sense going!!!! PROBLEM IS NO ONE IN GOVT OR PF HAS THE SPINE OR BALLS TO ASK CNP WHAT CHIKOPO IS DOING!!! THIS IS BECOZ CNP INVITED THE GUY & NO ONE SEEMS CAN QUESTION HIM! WE also have a bunch of so called opposition MP’s who seem tongue-tied or is it that they are just waiting for an opportunity to be called into the ranks of this “sinking” (am just thinking about that spelling, um, have I left out a “t”?, anyway readers feel free to add it!!) govt!!
Sir, blogging does not mean hitting about the bushes….that you know too well. Zambia need revolution does not better will take political need to be punished …with impunity.
I’d place the blame on both parties. For the administration it is arrogance writ large; how can they squander away tax payers money on such an ego trip? Also that’s the curse of Africa; in the developed world no professional (not even a plumber) would accept to get accommodated and paid for just sitting around doing nothing; they’d long have refunded this dysfunctional administration the allowances and gone back to earn a productive living.
PROBLEM IS NO ONE IN GOVT OR PF HAS THE SPINE OR BALLS TO ASK CNP WHAT CHIKOPO IS DOING!!! THIS IS BECOZ CNP INVITED THE GUY & NO ONE SEEMS CAN QUESTION HIM! WE also have a bunch of so called opposition MP’s who seem tongue-tied or is it that they are just waiting for an opportunity to be called into the ranks of this “sinking” (am just thinking about that spelling, um, have I left out a “t”?, anyway readers feel free to add it!!) govt!!
“The Nation should not worry about Government expenditure on Judge Chikopa” – Kennedy Sakeni, Chief Government Spokesman.
That’s a very Ukwatic statement. If PF itself is meeting the bills that’s fine by me. HOWEVER IF GRZ IS MEETING THE COSTS OF EXPENDITURE, WHICH IS OBVIOULY THE CASE, I HAVE EVERY RIGHT AS A TAXPAYER TO BE CONCERNED FOR FINANCING WHAT IS NOW A VACATION FOR A FOREIGN JUDGE.
Does it mean that this guy has nothing to do in Malawi? He does not have children or he visits them everyday at tax payers money? Ok does it mean that he does not have girlfriends in Malawi who are missing him or they come to service him from Malawi at taxpaers money. Just asking! I end here!
If Sata was a serious president Sakeni would not last in his position as spokesperson. Sakeni exhibits a very high degree of ineptitude such that even a grave 5 pupil can tell the minister’s lack of wisdom. You don’t comment in the manner Sakeni has done on issues that border on the use of public funds. How can he say, “we are taking care of Chikopa out of curtesy because we invited him”? The question is whether the purpose for which he was invited still exhists. If not, then we see no reason why we should be courteous. We are talking public funds going to waste indiscriminately. This government is so arrogant and undiplomatic in the way it is responding to public outcry. They are forgeting that we are the ones that vote and 2016 may seem so far away but its not. Watch this space!