Zambia police have continued their pursuit for opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema to institute an arrest. Mr Hichilema is wanted for allegedly issuing disparaging remarks against President Michael Sata during his tour at Lusaka’s Kalikiliki market.
Police spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela could neither deny nor confirm whether Mr Hichilema was facing arrest.
“I am still waiting for a full report. So at the moment I cannot give you a comment,” Ms Kanjela said.
But police sources said some officers yesterday visited Mr Hichilema’s residence in Lusaka’s Kabulonga area to effect, an arrest but he was not available.
On Tuesday, officers approached Mr Hichilema who was appearing in a courtroom to serve him with the callout but their attempt was stopped.
Mr Hichilema’s lawyers protested against Police presence in the courtroom to issue the callout, which raised an exchange of words between the parties.
Mr Hichilema was at the time appearing for charges of conveying false news.
Meanwhile, the Lusaka magistrate’s court has officially temporarily halted the criminal proceedings against opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema following an order granted to him by the Supreme Court.
In the criminal matters Hichilema is facing one count of publication of false news with intent to cause fear and alarm to the public.
When the matter came up for continued trial yesterday before chief resident magistrate Joshua Banda, defense lawyers applied to have the matter stayed in view of the order by the Supreme Court which stated that their client’s criminal proceedings be stayed.
“I now halt the criminal matters against the accused person following the order by the Supreme Court to do so pending further determination by the higher court,” said the chief resident magistrate.
Supreme Court judge, Munyinda Wanki during the week directed that the criminal proceedings against Hachilema be stayed pending determination of the Constitutional issues currently before the High Court.
Judge Wanki has since set January 24 this year as the date for hearing of the application on behalf of Mr Hichilema to set aside judgment.
Through his lawyers, Hichilema had applied before Chief Resident Magistrate Joshua Banda for Constitutional reference of the indictment for the determination of the Constitutionality of the said provision of the penal code but magistrate Banda refused the application.
Hichilema on January 11, 2013 however appealed to the High Court asking it to stay the criminal proceedings against him but the High Court declined the application without stating reasons.
Hichilema further decided to take his matter to the Supreme Court where he now had been granted an injunction.
The matter was adjourned to February 15, 2013 for continued trial.
There’s not enough policework in Zambia. These guys should be out fighting real crime
HH,NEVER INSULTED THE SATANIST.HE JUST CALLED HIM ,THE WAY, EVERY NORMAL PERSON, COULD CALL SATA ,BASED ON HIS ACTIONS.LIKE I CALL SATA SATANIST BASED ON THE STRANGE DEATHS GOING ON AROUND THE NATION, SINCE HE CAME INTO POWER AND THE WAY HIS SON DIED.LET HIM CONCETRATE ON SOLVING THE PROBLEMS AROUND THE NATION.I REMEMBER THAT IT WAS HIM WHO USEDTO INSULT MWANAWASA AND RB…SHAME.THE BATTLE IS THE LORDS
I thought about it for 3 minutes, I still can’t find a reason WHY Sata can’t be insulted, and especially by HH.
I agree totally with you, murder cases are increasing, and the police are busy chasing after politicians for just a simply statment. We need to vote for a new person now these old politcians who jump from one party to another should start farming
And who is Sata but just another human? Jesus was humiliated,called all sorts of things and crucified and Obama is always disparaged.Its always the “lesser figures” who always want to play by their own rules which much bigger persons never avoided.Whats so special about Sata? Lets not elevate some clearly flawed Sata into some sort of untouchable demigod.
ATT: MR CHIBWE UPND SECRETARY GENERAL.
Can you please open an occurence book at the secretariat here all these ubuses will be recorded as well as the perpetrators.all policemen involved in this stupid actions must have their names written down.the hour to reckon will soon dawn.their will be nothing like we were working under instructions.each one knows his bounderies of his duties.this book should also extend to ordinary people who are being abused by the cadres in their locations.please take this advise seriously.we have no police to protect us so it`s only after we rediscover our freedoms are we going to prosecute our abusers
In 2031 not so
UPND WILL ONLY RULE THIS COUNTRY IN 2051 WHEN THEY WILL BE TIRED WITH THEIR TRIBALISM FOR NOW FORGET
Well said
banyinenwe finena ukutikamisha ,loleleni mulemona kwati fyangalo bafikala
I am the Lord God. Insulting me is blasphemy and it carries a death sentence.
We shilu wee, fifwaka. Ba PF muli bachabechabe bashinka manyela baswaini!!
Even the president of the world Obama do get abuse,who is Sata?
United States is a different kind of democracy.
The Zambian leadership would prefer to be surrounded by
by a pack of dimwits, jostling for positions.
Would you allow this lot to run your corner shop?
HELL NO
he used to insult Mwanawasa and RB and Political rallies and using Post newspaper nobody harrassed him.
What do you mean nobody harrassed him? He even got deported from Malawi for no apparent reason by RB’s dictator friend Mbingu Wa Mutharika, who is now dead.
true
problem with recycled leaders is that you go backwards 40yrs
IWE IMBWA YOU CAN RECYCLE DAY OLD NSHIMA-HH IS EQUALLY RECYCLED ALWAYS LOSING ELECTIONS. LET THE PARTY TRY OTHER PEOPLE LIKE LUBINDA
You are very right, in 2016 lets vote for a new person , new person in politics not these chaps who jump from one party to another, no wonder we seem to just go round in circles, change of government means former leaders being investigated and arrested, being in opposition is a criminal offence
Tired of reading this arresting BS news.!!!!!
We had one of the best President under our party MMD to ever occupy State House. He put cadres in their place and brought sanity to governance and application of rule of law in Zambia.
Some people who are in privileged positions today persistently and consistently called him Cabbage or vegetable. They even went to the extent of taking cabbages to political rallies and slicing them.
Did our great president ever unleash the police on them? No
Is the constitution under which he operated in different from the current one? No
I’ll l leave it at that
May Levy Patrick Mwanawasa’s soul rest in eternal peace.
I agree, He was the best president ever. LPM was disparaged by the same people who are now saying they’re being defamed.
Well said. Totally agreed! Leadership and dictatorship are not one and the same. We need leaders with in-built confidence – not these kaponyas that find themselves in plot 1 by accident..
You are right, Mwanawasa was the best Zambian president to date. He understood democracy and the rule of law. He never abused the police like these kaponyas. It is only once that he lost his cool at Ndola airport when he warned Sata with the words, “nga utumpe apa pene fyalakubipila ifintu”. He never unleashed the police on to the opposition leaders despite the foul mouths of some of them. Zambia should have made positive strides had he not left us to be with the Lord. We miss you LPM.
I agree with most of your comments. LPM will always be remembered for those good things he left us. Though, two things i have never understood is why he could not leave a good constitution for us and also planning for contunuity ( or a Sucessor) for his office. MHSRIP.
You are just admirable, sir! Whenever you comment you have level, reason and articulation. Very well said!
Who insulted RB so much and no arrest was made?No doubt RB was a great president. I remember RB himself proudly saying that people could insult him but he could not be distracted to develop zambia because that was his focus.
Which focus? He was busy stealing our tax payers money and you call that focus. stupid *****. shut up.
Talking of focuss, Rupiah was I think the worst president this country has ever had. God knows why he removed him, these guys could have finished everything. At least Sata has brought new currency so that the money they burried becomes worthless. If liato could burry such huge amounts what about the Finance minister or the bank governor?
prostate cancer do your job and deliver us from evil. we need a state funeral. TB Joshua’s prophesy should pass. we desperately await for it. we are currently under siege from evil.
WALOBA IYAUMA SATA WILL NEVER DIE IN THE NEXT 20 OR SO YEAR. THAT IS WISHFULL THINKING FROM UPND.
God put Sata in that position for a purpose,you will die and Sata will remain stronger,and you will have a pauper’s burial.
What disparaging remark did he say? That is what I wanted to read on this article.
President Mwanawasa was called a cabbage but what was his answer to such insults? Did he instruct the police to arrest? No. He just said he was not a cabbage but a stake.That is the measure of great men. LET HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
In vanity belaboring to divert the public from real issues compounding them. PF has lamentably failed.
IWE CNP WAMUTU UKULU SALEWA NKONYO. KK, CHILUBA, MWANAWASA AND BANDA MANAGED THIS WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT SPECIAL ARE YOU NOT TO TAKE THAT AS WELL?
Sure we are tire of this Hyena in State house. I will soon unleash the drogon and hire someone to bring a close to this circus we are being subjected to. What kind of a president is this one that cannot even address the citizens on the State of affairs/economy. All he know is swearing people and asking the ka George Chela to issue statements. That is why he feels like he is a defacto president. Who knows may be he also wires the FL since the old man cannot “standup to the occassion”. I miss LPM and RB mwe. How far s 2016 so we can vote this finished man out????
I do not think the police will be looking for this man for saying “Hyena in state house” but if it was an opposition leader, they will look for him like no mans business, i agree, there are too many swearing in ‘s at state house , when will these guys work, too many districts as well soon we will hear that kalingalinga is a district
2016 is very far away. TB Joshua ati shani ka prostate cancer kapela kwiii… pali shibantu uyu.
I agree with you Brother man , It will be a long term . one term will four terms. More money in our pockets misled most of the youths. Now its less money. Our father which at heaven hear our cry hear call . the youths made a mistake to vote for the CNPs , help us to forgive the youths for they did not know what they did.
Imwe ba mbangula even if elections were to be held to day,your candidate and party cannot win.mulaibepa sana
@FTJ, how did Sata’s son die, I would like to know
Thanks
History seems to repeat itself CHILUBA TO arrested. FDD PRESIDENT for calling HIM A KAWALALA .
lets see if this arrest will open up A.PANDORAS BOX?
HH does not have tact when making such statements. As for Edith and the rest, they had evidence of ftj’s thieving and where ready to prove it in court. those where not mere rantings like we getting from HH.
Government gone to the dogs or the dogs in government! In 21st century Zambia, Zambians being persecuted for having different views to those in government. What a shame!
arrest the frustrated looser hyena under five pitycoat .viva polisai the head of state should be respected .this chap thinks by insulting H.E he will get sympathy from the public jail the chap he has contaminated politics with insults.
Such litrograciful, unvisionery, unrealistic, brain purging, unfuturistic and unaccountable social contribution would come from undoubtedly from “KAPONYAS” that have NO ability to be realistic at list for once!
Zambia wakeup, your country is on fire! don’t sit back,get angry – let’s take our country back!
from where
SATA IS THE GREATEST DESASTER TO HAVE EVER HAPPENED IN ZAMBIAN POLITICS, HISTORY TELLS US THAT THERE WERE DICTORS LIKE HITLER, MUSSOLIN ‘IDIAMI DADA, WHO NO MORE SATA’S INABILITY TO DELIVER ON ELECTION PROMISES HAS MADE HIM TO BE ALLEGIC TO POLITICAL OPPENETS
Insulting the president by HH why, We have so many problems in this country, let the political part’s, talk about the problems the country is facing, insulting one another does not help solve the problems the country is facing.We have the issue of anemproyment levels is very high in this country secondly poverty, the high prices of essertial commodity etc it’s very shameful to have political leaders insulting each othe in public medias and so on Mukakula lisa kanshi, Ukutukana tekupanga ishina nakalya.
nice one
Spoke like a leader. Indeed this is what we like to hear from our leadership especially the ruling party leadership. We need fatherly advices NOT aggression.
well spoken indeed
Kindly substanciate your contributions at list by availing the bloggers the ACTUAL INSULTS word for word if at all you do not mean that you are marely the actual “KAPONYA sebane wikute CNP” that is guilty of TAKING Zambia 50 years backward with!
i have never seen youths march to state house to tell the president to speed up the implentation of job creation policies, let they do that to remove a party member, thats how daul this country is
Much as we agree that there is a law on defaming the President, there is absolutely no need to presistently persue hamless HH for a one-off contemptuos remark.
We must cultivate a higher sense of tolerance for our political system to mature and flourish or we forget about multi-partism.
Govt is better off ignoring such rantings from HH. He has no political clout to cause any worry to any govt.
Our country is faced with huge challenges to waste resources on such trivialities.
WJHERE ARE THE “MALION Killer BROTHERS” ?
police please remember mwanawasa was called a cabbage
RB …was called nyama soya
PF was never harrased.
The ‘Butcher of Chawama’ is harrassing Opposition Leaders with impunity. He is being misled by those around him. One day, it will take an innocent child to let the Great Emporor realise that he is not wearing any clothes at all.
It is not an insult to tell you that you have FAILED to deliver on you 90 days promise. it is just a FACT. Unless under CNP FACTS are insults. ALL of you support PF if you are no insane, you should be able to frankly tell CNP that HE has FAILED. Tell me either you are insane or normal and say the right words.
calling someone a thief can never be an insult. what if he has proof
thus why he’s been taken court so that all of us know what he knows whether true or false?
This news is not complete, what did Excutive Chief HH say about the police constable Zambia’s president voted through the don’t kubeba slogan & false promises? Please LT give us complete news!
iNSALA FIKAPOKOLA UKUTUMPA!
Ba Sata Please can U show us leadership please,Leave this HH alone.Following him will make people sympathize with him.Where did U do leadership kanshi?We love U so much and don’t want to regrete voting for U.U’re so popular therefore working hard and not harasssing opposition will make PF more popular.Let us work on roads in Lusaka especially Kamwala South Area.Lubinda has failed to tare Zaoga Road and Break point Road.At the moment it’s like we don’t have cancellors also to do smtg there.If Mr.President U had honest people in govt really U can’t campaign in 2016, PF will win if really U work on roads.We’re giving U free advice, please work on roads atleast people will see something.RB did well with Formular One.Lusaka is the heart of Zambia.One point i wanna make also is to…
Wah, you are right in your elaborations. Unfortunately the CNPs are never available to Capitalize on such yawning Advantages! They are marely in utopia only to be brutal to the Citizenry that mean well to this lovely Nation. Try to Advise MCS thru Chellah when he is away taking a walk at The Past News Pamafi!!!!!!!!! I believe it may work out for the good in your well meaning statesmanship.
We are getting very tired of these arrests of HH and Nevers Mumba.The police seem to have too much time on their hands.please lets cut down on numbers of the police and divert the money to health and education.We are getting sick and tired of the PF police.
RB was a good leader.Well picked by an even greater leader Levy PAtrick Mwanawasa MHSRIP. Anyone know what charge the police will arrest HH or Nevers mumba with next week? Just tell us in advance after all the orders have already been sent.
Zambia consists of 65% rural population and 35% urbanized population. The majority of our leaders have a rural orientation. Theres is world where they are subjects and not citizens, without rights and responsibilities. Service by the state is a gift to them from some god or earthly government gods. To me its a basic right as i pay taxes.
Perhaps the inventors of democracy(Greeks) where correct in restricting voting to landowners. unlike this universal suffrage that allows pipo to vote on the whims of their stomachs.
Rapes are on the rise yet these police keep concentrating on HH, have they not got anything else to do? If they are jobless then they should be made jobless and given the sack! Its the same old story every day if its not Nevers being arrested then it is HH. This is what Amsterdam pointed out about the constant intimidation of the opposition leaders. What next, permission to breathe??
As soon as Zambias discover the identity of the person(s) who are directing the Police Service to malfunction with the aim of terrorising the people, the fate of such mischievious politicians will spell life-long misery after 2016. It is strange that when the rest of the world is striving to perfect ways of improving civilized welfare of the people, Zambia is being seen to be reverting barbarism. Thank God the SADC region is alert to the activities of the PF Govt. Events in Zambia are now being actively reported by a popular TV channel eNCA (@ DSTV Channel 403). Let’s pray that the Human Rights authorities at the Haque are compiling acts of atrocities in Zambia.
this is turning out to be the most unpopular gvt at the shortes of terms
I think HH is playing a good game. Sata and your PF thing, be careful. The more you punish him, the more you campaign for him. IN NO TIME, A TONGA BULL WILL BE ON TOP. LEARN HIS GAME OR ELSE …………
ARE YOU SURE
2016 am seeing no proper arranged elections bcoz SATA will never accept defeat as RB did, am appealing to UPND, MMD, NAREP, ULP, ZDDM and these other political parties unity and make one political force scare SATA now, as long these parties remains fragmated like there are now, SATA will take advantage and manipulate the whole electoral system in 2016, plz especially UPND should swallow its pride and come on board with other parties otherwise am seeing Zimbabwe elections in Zambia WITH sata on helm of power, bcoz this man does not respect the rule of law, he is the worst dictator
who will be the leader of the coalition? HH is selfish, the fake Pastor is selfish…in short there is no credible opposition in Zambia
YOUR RUPIAH BANDA DID RESIST LEAVING POWER IT IS JUST THAT HE REALISED THE ZAMBIAN DID NOT WANT HIM WITH HIS MMD AND THEIR ALLIANCE PARTNERS UPND
Good news….no one is above the law. Law breakers must be met with the force of the law. hakainde thinks this is in the days of RB who was busy looting and raping the country without enforcing the law.
Wapia munshila – Michael Sata is coming. No nonsense man. Lock them up please.
Spoken like a primitive monkey still trapped in the big man syndrome!
Then why hasn’t your Man of Action told the people what RB looted. Your demented leaders should concentrate on providing for the people such as ensuring fertiliser under FISP reaches farmers than on propaganda. The propaganda against RB got your lunatics into office but it may not keep them there.
@ PF are dogs, He he he, you have seriously cracked me up!!!!!!!!!!! he he he
ubututu ba HH !! chi sweater iaround the neck!!!
YOUR HATE WILL TAKE TO THE GRAVE! WHY NOT STIKING TO THE TOPIC?
washako mwana lifwafwa kabili lifutu
Mwe batutu nimwe ba PF who have taken the country back to UNIP days.
POLITICIANS ARE LIKE DIAPERS AND NEED TO BE CHANGED VERY OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
Our Memories are indeed short, Sata insulted Kk with the un printable words at woodlands stadium during the MMD(1989) rally and no one arrested him, he has in the past called LPM a cabbage he called Masebo a lady who had no brains at all, he held countless dark corner meetings with his fellow worshipers during both LPM and RB’s rule and no one touched him. His colleagues in the opposition holding party meetings are arrested, he has imprisoned all his opponents except his XXXX lickers The question is who does Sata think he is? Is he bigger than Zambia? When did this man become a saint? Even if he was one he should not drag this country into arnarch. Dictatorship will only tear our lovely country into pieces. His heirs will be hunted like wild foxes if he is not careful.
I have read with sadness how you dogs can insult the head of state. You are just a bunch of dull envious lot who can NEVER ascend to the position of president. If you think you are intelligent, why are you not in state house? The answer is clear, you cannot be equated to Mr Sata. You will insult him morning, day and night but you will not remove him from state house. You can pray dangerous prayers, God will not hear you because He is the one who appointed him using the electorate. Please don’t even bring in the Man of God TBJ. The prophecy was not pointed to anyone or Africa. It was general. Even if Mr Sata died today, HH, Nevers, etc would not be the ones to take over state house. So keep dreaming and hoping. RB, RB, we are slowly closing in and very soon we will show you.
all remarks above are from well learned zambians able to discern good from evil build dont incite hatred we are zambians in one country lets remember our poor rural mass looking to you God help us
I am really annoyed by the way this President is treating HH. I am not tonga but this is really unfair and unjustified. People need to rise up against this uncivilized behaviour. Although, what do expect from some with little knowledge an no direction in life
If there is any man who insulted past Zambian presidents, it is Sata. Infact him got away with it with backing from the Post. Sata is a man who lives in glass house but likes throwing stones. We have so much hypocrisy in our nation.
Does any one know the web address of Chanda Chimba’s documentaries on Sata?
THIS IS INTERESTING. A PERSON WHO IS EDUCATED SHOULD DESIST FROM INSULTING. SATA IS SAID TO BE UNEDUCATED, AND YET THE MAN SEEMS TO BE MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN THE ONES WHO THINK THEY ARE EDUCATED. IF HH INSULTED THE PRESIDENT , LET HIM PAY FOR HIS SINS. THERE IS NO ONE PERSECUTING HIM. IF SATA GOT AWAY WITH IT, THATS NO EXCUSE. ARE WE GOING TO DO WRONG SIMPLY BECAUSE ANOTHER PERSON DID SOMETHING WRONG AND HE WAS NOT ARRESTED?