United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichilema today failed to take plea in a defamation case against President Michael Sata as defence lawyers asked the state to have the matter adjourned.
Particulars allege that Hichilema, on January 13 this year, with intent to bring the President into hatred, ridicule and contempt, did publish a defamatory statement which was covered in the Daily Nation of January 14 this year.
Defence lawyer Sakwiba Sikota told the court that the defence team needed more time to study the case and take further instructions from the their client over the matter.
In his application Mr. Sikota asked the court to adjourn the matter as the charges levelled against his client at the court and those he was charged with when he was arrested at woodlands police station were different.
“Your honour, we have just been given the new indictment by the State a few minutes ago and we only have instructions based on the earlier indictment when he appeared in another court, we noted that it is different from the one he was arrested for,” he said.
“It is for the reason that we apply to have the matter adjourned to allow us obtain new instructions and to study the new offence before our client takes plea,” Mr Sikota said.
Other defence lawyers include, Jack Mwiimbu, Martha Mushipe, Paul Katupisha and Dindi and Company.
And State prosecutor Simon Tembo said the indictment was the same except for minor changes but did not object to the application though emphasised that plea be taken as soon as possible because the matter had dragged.
This prompted Judge Boniface Mwiinga to adjourn the case in order to allow the defence team study the matter as requested.
In granting the application, magistrate Boniface Mwiinga said the accused should understand the charge he is facing before taking a fresh plea.
“I do hereby grant the application to the defence as prayed. This is to enable them direct their minds to the fresh charge and to also obtain new instructions from their client as well as studying the charge before taking plea,” he said.
The matter was adjourned to January 28 for plea.
HH wasila mufana. You just can’t play politics with King Cobra,please try farming bajata Ngo’mbe.
Why does it still seem that in order to be State President once in Zambia one has to have been jailed at some stage by a serving President? I’ve no reason not to expect that Uyu HH azangena mu boarding soon,
The finished is Ministry of Justice, not HH. To who does that thing Mutomba Nchito report to?
There better people than Kabimba to run Justice ministry, even Musa Musenge or Mumba Malila can do a better job than that Kabimba who sleep in coffin every Thursday night.
I am half Bemba & married to a Tonga husband. I & him speak Tonga, Lozi & Bemba. Now, seriously, what nonsense is this that all Bembas & Tongas have engaged in at this forum? This is extremely dangerous. Whenenver HH is to be criticised, just criticise him as HH and please stop refering to Bembas as well when you are criticising Sata. The 2 are politicians and neither of them is perfect. May Jehovah God have mercy on all those insulting entire tribes. AMEN!
By the way, in the process of insulting each other, you all missed discussing the topic. Is it a criminal offence to insult the president? If the answer is yes, then HH should be prosecuted in a transparent manner, producing eveidence & adducing facts leading to the pronoucement of either a quilty or not quilty ruling in a court of law
THE LORD PROTECT YOU FROM THE EVIL FORCES IN ZAMBIA IN JESUS NAME. GOD IS THE GREATEST JUDGE.SATA INSULTED ALL THE PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM AND ACCUSED KK OF HAVING ARMS AT SUNDAMISALE FARM WHO ARRESTED HIM .GOD IS WATCHING AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS. SATA WILL PAY FOR THIS IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
NKuyuma yuma HH nkuyuma yuma. SATA IS MAKING U TO BE MORE STRON AND STRONGER DONT U WORRY 2016 IS URS AS ZAMBIANS SAID THAT SATA ATEKEKO AND HE HAS SO LET IT BE.
HH thinks owns Southern province, the way I used to think of Kwa Zulu, just because of 10 MPs in our parliament. Let ba Kabimba shrug it off with him!
Really? I mean seriously, think about what you want to say before you make a post here. When was the post of Minister of Justice reduced to a mere para political henchman? Why are you so content with reducing your leader’s responsibility to what I call the equivalent of a kaponya dealing with bus stop politics. Busy shouting “ala chimona” when he should be objectively address vital issues raised by both the civil society and opposition parties. Yes PF is the ruling party but who are they ruling? You and I, Zambians. Not PF supporters but the nation, which at the moment is at a time when our leaders should deliver without fail and leave legacies of progress and productivity. Why is your focus on ruling instead of governing, because that is what they should be doing. Listen, think,…
What I am trying to say my friend is Zambia really can be a prosperous nation. What we need is for our leaders to capture that vision and be of a mind to achieve this. This is not done by political coercion or sweet talking. The advice is out there, a most recent example is the article by NAREP “THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE SERIES ISSUE NO. 1: THE MEALIE-MEAL CRISIS IN ZAMBIA”. If you read this article without prejudice you will see some sense in it because at the end of the day both of us will benefit if enough effort was paid to those suggestions, as is being paid to all this political humdrum. Remember that there exists a generation in this country that knows nothing of national prosperity. You see it in other countries, why don’t you want it for yourself? We can at least try.
Under 5 has the cat got your tongue!
Hey Muppet! You’re back coz the news item is on HH. Is this your area of specialization? Seems Your tribal CNP government tasked you to spend taxpayers money to write trash on every HH topic. Enjoy it while it lasts. Remember to reserve something for the future. The lights will soon be switched off on your thieving. we will be having Presidential polls in August 2013! If in doubt ask Prophets Joseph and TB Joshua!
Sata & his PF Polic3 will not win this battle because the battle belongs to the Lord.
Deluded soul since when did God involve himself in party politics.
Good Question MAX, infact why on earth would this satanist HH win 2016 if he can’t even win as an MP in lsk???
Those saying 2016 will be in his favour are in for a real shock. The truth is that Sata is still popular, UPND on the other hand has crowned itself as a party for tongas. Speaking independently as someone neither tonga nor bemba, the truth here is that PF will retain 2016. and neither MMD nor UPND is ready to Mann the helm after PF. It’s high time Chipimo started maketing himself.
Trumped up charges. It won’t go anywhere. I remember the insults Sata used to haul on the late Mwananawasa but he himself can’t take. Hypocrisy!
mmm… you also…
have you forgotten that mwanawasa harrased sata over theft of motor vehicles, had him locked up and later dragged to court. it was saviour chungu who saved sata from the noose. have your facts right before accusing others.
What exactly do they all do in parliament?
They sit and waste time, in evening they bring prostitutes to parliament motel.
Achili nomwenso uyu mbuli ?
Sitoto sesi nani sipyeya sa sitongwani ki wena
Some people have arrived to burry someone , all the way from India. Sad, we are mourning again!
Whats wrong with state prosecutors why are they always changing the charges? Thats what happens when you are not professional in your work.Infact the defendant should sue for the stress and embarrassment caused when he was delivered a wrong charge….maybe then the PF police will jack up
DPP ..theres no crooks this time like on campus.
I would love to marry someone as rich as this man, just unfortunate I am not into black men, I have dates them, have moved on.
Also I know Tonga men deceive you, and happen to marry more than one wife, if only people can learn about the beauty of Bembas. There is nothing sinister about Bembas unlike in western province were I am told they eat crocodiles Yuck, someone pass the puke bucket please.
Thanks
You really try so hard to put up a show out and off topic. For some reasons you are no longer interesting. Try something sir.
Mushota i lov ur comments how do i see the writer of good comments.
Mushota, I have always liked your postings even when others have vilified you. You have now crossed the line by going tribal. And for me thats too much. Be a lady and apologise, otherwise you will be losing a lot of funs. Thanks.
By the way,Lozis eat a water monitor and not a crocodile. In any case, crocodile tail is a delicacy in a lot of Western countries along with Escargot (cooked land snails… and yes, the common snail as you know it) and frog legs.
Rich men, benba men, lozi men, tonga men… all flawed thinking. Marriage should be about love first and foremost . And a lot of generalizations about tribes, im sure there are a lot of crazy bemba men out there as well, dont they eat monkeys? Isnt that the same as eating a human being? Somebody get me a puke bucket!
Mushota, there’s a difference between a Hopani and a Kwena! You’ve just exposed your ignorance! Besides the very whites you worship are the ones into crocodile meat. And as someone has already mentioned snails and frogs legs are also delicacies for your chosen sex partners.
Mushota you have just confirmed your prostitution!!So you have slept with lots of men and now you have moved on?A woman should never go sampling men,it is called professional prostitution!!
buthelei sata thinKs he owns zambia and zambia belongs to bembasA BIG NO ZAMBIA IS FOR ALL ZAMBIANS. IF SATA IS POPULAR AS YOU THINK WHY IS HE TRYING TO BRING A ONE PARTY STATE .LET ME TELL YOU SATAS DAYS ARE NUMBERED IN STATE HOUSE COME 2016 HE IS OUT.YES .MAXWELL IT SHOWS HOW DULL YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY.GOD IS INTERESTED IN THE POLITICS OF EACH AND EVERY COUNTRY SO THAT HIS CHILDRENSHOULD NOT BE LED BY EVIL PEOPLE THOUGH HE MAY ALLOW EVIL PEOPLE TO BE PRESIDENT LIKE SATA GOD HAS THE POWERTO REMOVE HIM IF HE OPPRRESSES GODS CHILDREN
MUSHOTA YOU ARE REALLY A TRIBALIST AND YOU HAVE AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX. BY THE WAY WHAT IS THERE IN LUAPULA TO BE PROUD ABOUT.
Under 5 thinks insulting the president is freedom of speach. His defence team will keep on enjoying his money because of his big mouth.
So why not overthrow hhhyena in the garbage bin?
will they ever have a case against the mighty son of the soil..?HH
They want to pile so many court cases on him so that by the time we reach the next elections, either he will be in jail, or he won’t have two copper coins to rub together. If this is the lesson the government want to give, I say I did not pay for this lesson. Shall they pay attention to fraudsters, thieves and murderers running on amok in the country (REAL CRIMINALS).
Poverty still above 60%, A mining industry, smelly armpits, a commerce industry on crutches, our agriculture looks like unkempt hair,a manufacturing industry’s like tattered pata pata. We can do better, let us all pull up our socks, but we need leadership, from all corners of society. From family to Church, to school, hospitals and civil society. For theories to work, they have to be put into practice.
Ba HH; Insulting the president won’t take you to state house. Find your own manifesto than behaving like Ing’ombe ilede. The Sata you knew in opposition, whom you accused of the agenda of homosexual for the reason of you walking away from the pact is now his excellency. I won’t be surprised if you finally commit suicide because you can’t fight authority Mr. bitter man.
How many times did Sata insult Mwanawasa and RB?
ONLY POOR PEOPLE ARE BITTER.
tell us the insult pliz! do not talk from without .
I almost managed to wrestle Kwa Zulu Natal from the rest of SA so that I could be their Prime Mister. I failed. I am still languishing in opposition, 25 years on!!!
Politics is cruel.
I wish your HH could call me for counsel otherwise he will retire a broken man!!.
thats true.nabena bamudala baposeko amanu buunga nabuduula twalafwa twapapata
HH should understand that laws are for law breakers and this is from the word of God
Am sure you are a Bemba by the tone.You are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that PF and Sata will rule Zambia forever.Support the wrongs and corruption,Bask in the glory but don’t forget of your relatives are suffering because of high prices,dying in hospitals because there is no medication.Enjoy yourself in the big apple.
You must be very dull. Laws are for everybody to abide.
YOU Bembas can never finish a sentence in English.
@robin, you are right. Very correct about these kuntwanikani beings.
Rubbish rants,, no wonder you will never rule Zambia due to your folly of thinking that tribe wins. Rubbish politics….shaaa.
@ Robin! Even a fool is termed wise when he keeps his mouth shut and avoids a rod. Even deep down you know what you just posted is without merit. Among the people you envy. Are Chilubas speech and Elias Chipimo sr and his son Elias Chipimo jr. Don’t bust your bubbles.
WHO EVER WILL BE THE PRESIDENT WILL NEVER FINISH HUMAN SUFFERINGS, THE ALL WORLD IS JUST LIKE THAT. MOST ZAMBIANS ARE VERY MIOPIC OR VERY SHALLOW MINDED. I FEEL SO PITY FOR SOME BLOGGERS HERE.
HOW DO YOU EXPECT SOMEBODY AS A HUMAN BEING INHERITING 20YEARS PROBLEMS TO FINISH THEM IN 12 MONTHS.?
PLEASE TRY TO THINK AND NOT TO SINK.
You bitter and frustrated people, you are so bigoted as to think that tribe wins in politics. You have developed that stinking hatred for the Bembas as if they are the ones who have prevented you from going to state house. The problem you have is one and this is that you campaign on tribal lines…where you try by all means to win sympathy from Zambians by portraying Bembas as bad people. What a backward, dull and frustrated strategy. Shame on you guys. Just campaign in all the 10 provinces so that you are voted for….bitter and frustrated people you are…shaaa/
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
You’re the chaps with the problem. We had Levy and RB as Presidents before. And Lenjes, Lambas and Chewas did not load it on others. But you chaps behave as if your tribe is the President. What you are having from the rest of Zambians is a push back. Change your behaviour. RB used to be criticised but Chewas never took it as an attack on their tribe!
My strategy failed me, because I never tried to sell myself beyond Kwa zulu Natal. I concentrated in shanty townships like Inkandla, Kwa Mashu etc at the expense of other populous areas. Enclave or sectional politics may not be suitable in this era. Please tell your HH to get in touch with me thru our National Parliament in Capetown.
your president is no much to HH. COME 2016 WHEN HE WILL BE DECLARING HIS ASSETIES HE WILL BE WORTHY BILLIONS OF KWACHA REBASED . HH IS THE MAN. GO TO VILLAGES YOU FIND THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE LAZY ARE THE ONES IN FOR FRONT TO CALL OTHERS SATANIST . TELL YOU GET YOUR BREAD MR SLAGGERED ?
if you dont know what to say shut it
satan is punk…go tell him to arrest me
kalubulu ka HH and nowander he’ll never be president for all zambians like his excellency chilufya sata.Anyway he’s a president for the tonga’s and his state house is at ngombe ilide.lol!
Come 2016 we are kicking out these pathetic faillures, police constables who have no clue about governance & VOTE IN CHIEF HH the true son of Zambia with a vision for our mighty country, period!
Thats what you say always and yet you come out number three always. Come 2016 HH is ofcourse winning southern province and not Zambia. The fact is that you think tribe wins….shaaa.
Ba Lusaka times they better pictures for HH why put this one? Are you one of the guns asigned against him? We know HH he does look like a cousin to Ukwa of Zambia.
Man , thats how HH looks. You think he is handsome than what he is???
President Michael Sata asked the ACC to inform him and get permission before investigating his Ministers. HH reproduces what the President said and it is Defamation of the President. The state have now realised that their Case is weak hence the changing of the charges.
For the tribalists,HH has insulted.For them as long as it is HH then it is bitterness,never be President.They believe that HH and UPND has got MPs in southern province only forgeting that he has in western,central and north western.
Like ‘Boxer’ character in Animal Farm,to them Napoleon is always right! They believe Boma ni Boma…….forgeting People Power. Any Boma ni Boma can be brought down by people power!
For now let them enjoy for it is their time….
Yes its their time to rule if they waste their chance theN fine for just let them work
TRUE NO PRESIDENT WILL EVER FINISH HUMAN SUFFERINGS,BUT CAN COME UP WITH PROGRAMMES TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND SUFFERING.ZAMBIAN POVERTY IS SELF INFLICTATED BECAUSE OUR PRIORITIES ARE WRONG.PF’S PRIRITY IS TO DESTABILIZE THE OPOSITION TO CAUSE BYE ELECTIONS.UNFORTUNATELY THESE COST MILLIONS WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PUMPED IN HEALTH,EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PROGRAMMES.
Even if HH creates conditions for him to be arrested all the time he will not become popular and win the presidency.Sata said things against KK and was arrested but when he formed PF he came up with policies that managed to convince Zambians that he is the right person to be in Plot 1.HH and his UPND is known to be tribal and no matter what he does he will not be voted to be president of Zambia.He is childish,has no direction and he is just wasting time in politic.
TRIBALISM AND HATRED ON DISPLAY
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ;STATEHOUSE IS THERE FOR YOU ALSO TO OCCUPY,,MAY GOD BE WITH YOU AND THE NATION.
hakainde hichilema is better than these sata chaps..,,sata has no farm on earth.
eeee ni H.H FOR PRESIDENT
WE SHOULD ALSO PUT ANOTHER TRIBE IN STATEHOUSE ,,NOT ONLY US THE BEMBAS
for sure H.H is ok for the top job on the soils of zambia
AS OLD WOMAN,,LETS LOVE EACH OTHER,,H.H IS BETTER OF TO RUN OUR ECONOMY
GO ,,GO …GO H.H FOR STATE HOUSE IS YOURS AS WELL.
HH Smilo (smile) kekekeke
Those who support hyena are free masons and some are his children. GOT IT!!
Ahhhhh! Look! Look at his hidden fangs!!!
News in Zed. Rubbish, our counterparts in Kenya are embarking on a very good project
We can do better, HH’s destiny is in his hands, he knows what he is doing ,
mushota u also join the uncivilised