The Joint Government Investigations Team today failed to question former President Rupiah Banda after his lawyers informed them that he was committed elsewhere.
Joint Government Investigations Team Spokesperson Namukolo Kasumpa told Journalists that the investigations have now been moved to next week Monday at 09 Hours.
“We were informed by his lawyers that he won’t make it this morning (Friday) and we have agreed to their request,” says Mrs Kasumpa.
Asked to comment on speculations that the investigations failed today because of the ongoing court process initiated by Mr. Banda’s lawyers, Mrs. Kasumpa said she could not comment.
“Let’s just stick to the fact that the questioning is off for now until Monday,” she quipped.
But sources close to Mr. Banda’s legal team said the investigators could not proceed with the questioning and likely arrest of the former President because of the court process underway.
“His lawyers (Mr. Banda) knew that these people (investigators) were working at locking him up for the weekend because he was not going to make bail today knowing that it’s a Friday and the lawyers knew that their last resort was the courts hence their decision to stay away,” the source said.
They have now started playing Mickey mouse games with each other ha ? Ndeloleshafye.
Sata please stop wasting our time and money FTJ never spent a nite in prison yet the government lost 10million dollars in legal fees. for once start governing and stop ruling
He should be questioned next friday ..if he gives another excuse, move it to next friday. hahahahaha
He, he, he!! Nice one. Ati move it to Friday, if this one fails, the next one until you find a Friday
I hope it’s not a situation of catch me if you can.
RB with his legal team will try all the tricks in the book but they will not escape the long arm of the law.
I am happy that the govt allowed RB to stay away to make him feel like he is in control, but soon he will be on his knees.
Don’t do the crime if you cant do the time
RB the master of monkey business…slowly but surely he will be cornered and investigated on another friday…if he doesnt show up again, then friday after the next…if he comes up with a plausible excuse again then BOMA must pay him a visit simple.
hahahaha…Look for another Friday please.hehhehehehe
kekekekeke ATI UNTIL U FIND A FRIDAY
If these toothless lawyers think they are clever just tell them that instead of RB facing JGIT on monday it has been shifted to next friday…my advice to JGIT just stick with friday..any friday will be fine by us…
Too old to go to prison but not too old to steal.
“This is not a race for running. This is politics. … I have stood with Hakainde and I defeated him. This kind of race as Kenneth Kaunda would say ‘wacepa sana’, I will overrun him,” he said.
“Let’s say we have a physical race, myself, himself and he is holding hands with Sata. I will beat them because he will be pulling Sata. Sata will be coughing, because he has been smoking all his life and I will win.”
President Banda said the MMD would defeat the PF-UPND Pact.
He also told the people that when they voted for him, they did not expect him to be a magician who would to work within 90 days to do everything.
He said Hichilema would never be president of Zambia.
Guys if you crack up just start reading speeches by HH when Rupiah was presido….lol
Nothing will happen to RB.infact he is even having good nights.panick is in the camp of the chief manipulator membe they guy who can sway the opinions of a country of
14million sleeping citizens to vote for a corpse.Bwezani is a hero
Octopus, it is not Sata who is wasting our time, it is the thi.ef B.anda wasting Zambian time. Since you pipo shared the loot, you are looking for every opportunity to discredit the investigations. Alabi is bound for confinement and for a long time. Wait and see. Sata is a serious and focussed man.
@Sisy
It’s the long arm of witch hunting that he cannot escape! The Law escaped us in Sept 2011.
Things are moving very fast and so far according to Fred M’membe’s plans. At the heart of the matter is the imminent presidential by-election.
In case you are behind, let us update you. President Michael Sata is almost a cabbage now and it is just a matter of time – a short time, before he completely goes out of the picture.
Fred M’membe, the main schemer in this project, knows that he doesn’t have time. You may not believe it but M’membe controls Sata. What M’membe tells Sata, that is what Sata will do. How that came to be is not relevant to the current discourse.But M’membe knows that time is not on his side.
His fear is that another person with the stamina of Rupiah Banda or Fredrick Chiluba may take over as president and put an end to his nonsense. He fears that his contracts and shoddy dealings with government will be reviewed and possible charges of corruption brought against him. He fears that the next president will demand repayment of the billions he owes DBZ, ZRA, and others.
He wants another cabbage or stooge that he can control.
So, he has to eliminate all potential presidents. Within PF, Given Lubinda have been bruised and silenced after being trapped and and forced to admit treacherous charges which will stick for the rest of his political career unchallenged.Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM) who equally has ambitions is currently being cowed into silence.
Even worse, GBM doesn’t even have the brains to plan things systematically other than relying on financial muscle, where all his current dirty government business dealings are being recorded by Mmembe awaiting to be unleashed anytime he becomes funny.
With things almost sorted inside PF, it leaves the schemer Mmembe with only two people that give him sleepless nights: Rupiah Band and Hakainde Hichilema. These two have to equally be sorted while Sata is still hanging on- and sorted out quickly.
It is feared that Hakainde Hichilema and Nevers Mumba may agree to deputise Banda as president should a presidential by-election come, and with the information in our possession the possibility of an early election may even come faster than expected.
Rupiah Banda only served three years as president and is therefore eligible to stand again. And that is what will send Rupiah Banda to prison. That is why his immunity was stripped at gun-point. It is to block this move.
With Rupiah out of the equation through corruption allegations and charges, coupled with media trials, judgements, and sentences, Mmembe remains with UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema.
It is very likely that Hichilema will also be imprisoned on whatever charges Mmembe will dream on especially that the daily diatribes against him in the Post are not achieving the desired result. For now charges of tribalism against Hichilema will intensify even when Mmembe knows that Sata has so far documented high levels of tribalism in government yet it is not a factor to him but others.
So far several high ranking officials are joining Mr. Hichilema from various tribes and the propaganda, though intense seems not yielding the desired results. In fact, his free tribe adverts and propaganda in the Post that openly declared that they will never give him coverage are working for Hichilema. The only people who believe the imaginery tribalism charges are those gullible ones who would still believe Mmembe’s crap even without the Post saying so.
But M’membe is not dull. He knows that as an individual, he is not electable under the sun. So he can never put his name as presidential candidate. He has to achieve his purpose through someone else. He did that through Levy Mwanwasa and he is doing that with Sata.
Those of you who think that skeleton you are shown on TV sometimes is Michael Sata the man of action, you are wrong. The Sata we know does not exist anymore. The Sata we know cannot be controlled by another man. But we don’t have Sata anymore. There is just a moving coffin which M’membe uses to run the country, for now as he schemes and shuffles his cards.
For now, Wynter Kabimba and to some extent, Panji Kaunda seems to be M’membe’s gamble. Why these two? That is how M’membe works. He picks on the weakest characters. As is already known, both Kabimba and Panji are unelected members of the PF government.
And M’membe knows that these two cannot win any fair elections. So they will have to depend on him to move the government machinery to rig for whoever is picked.
Remember the rigging machinery is already in place. As long as elections in Zambia will be under the control of the PF government, the opposition will never win elections. You can argue, go to court or campaign day and night, but you will never. The opposition will only win elections when the issue of managing elections is addressed properly.
For now Sata cannot appoint Kabimba or Panji as president. There is nothing about abdication in the Zambian constitution. So there are two possibilities: the first one is to force Sata to appoint Kabimba as vice-president. This is a distinct possibility. So far, Kabimba has been exposed to the international community as a powerful figure in the PF government.
He is the one representing Sata in important functions such as AU summit, meeting communists etc…
Guy Scott is only sent to assignments which are not so crucial. It was Kabimba who stood in the shoes of Sata to call the removal of Rupiah Banda’s immunity. Yet we all know that since Sata can hardly walk, it should have been the vice-president. If the vice-president was equally incapacitated or out, it should have been one of the three top ministers in terms of hierarchy. These are defence minister, Home Affairs and Finance minister in that order. But it had to be the heir apparent. And it is only Kabimba who is always being projected to speak for government each time he appears on primetime TV so far anytime he wants to feature.
This is especially that Sata himself is now completely locked up in near vegetative state at State House, only appearing for traditional swearing-in ceremonies which are purely aimed at gaining desired numbers in parliament, as dictated by Mmembe.
The second option is to maintain the status quo and in the event of Sata crossing to the next world, let Guy Scott act for 90 days but impose Kabimba as PF candidate. But that is highly risky for Mm’embe. Kabimba is the most hated person within PF. He only has support from Sylvia Masebo and maybe Inonge Wina. He stands no chance against the GBM group.
So, the first option of making Sata appoint Kabimba veep is more viable. That way, he can use force and government machinery.
He can ignore cabinet and rely on crap like Patrick Matibini, Mutembo Nchito and his other cronies to usurp power.
In Nchito, he has an all-weather cadre. After years of observing Mutembo Nchito’s activities, we have come to the conclusion that Mutembo is not very intelligent. He will forever depend on M’membe for survival. Mutembo was luck to find himself in some high profile cases as a lawyer and when name was mentioned.
The only thing Mutembo has in common with M’membe is the vast capacity to hate. That is what draws him to M’membe. That is there common ground.
That is M’membe’s plan. But he forgets there is God’s will in these things. Why he can’t learn a lesson from Sata we do not understand.
For ten years, Sata criss-crossed Zambia telling lies, peddling insults, opposing progressive ideas and defaming people better than he. Finally he got the presidency. But he is not enjoying it because he is sick. Instead, it’s others who are enjoying the fruits of his labour. That is how God works.
And indeed Zambia might surely need God’s intervention in these schemes because from our interaction with the opposition leaders, they are not seeing these schemes at all. There is no systematic counter planning on the part of the opposition leaders who are so relaxed like elections will be held in 2016, yet M’membe and clique are never sleeping but daily planning for these things, not for the good of the nation, but for their survival.
And one would have expected any serious opposition leaders to be all over the country spreading their messages despite the prohibitive political environment. They are dead asleep only to wake-up and be head during by-elections which are also a trap.
A trap in the sense that there are no induced by-elections in PF strongholds where the opposition parties can also leave foot-prints through campaigns. No body knows Hichilema in Northern, Muchinga and Luapula provinces, but PF is leaving serious foot-prints in North-western, Southern, and Western provinces enough to gain votes beyond the simple majority required to win the presidency.
And if opposition parties think M’membe and his PF can give them blanket permits to address meetings like Rupiah gave Sata and others, then they need serious prayers and deliverance.
I have just copied and pasted so that those of you that may not have seen this can also see it and read it.
@ Bupe, u have realized that only fellow tribes men Visit your ZWD where this rubish is vomitEd so u want to bring amalushi on this decent site. To hell with you watchDog. We told them not to be blocking people with different views but they have not stopped. The result is no one is interested in their cheap lies. Lusaka time is super and better and is visited by many people with diff ideas. Yours is for Tongas.
SHREK the OGRE, the TROLL.
Bupe, get your arse off this blog you ranting lunatic!
Continue postponing to fridays and they will continue beating you at mind games especially that they know you are a bunch of low thinking dunderheads. This is one case that will die a natural death especially considering what will happen soon
Who is fooling who?……this is going the tribunal way… chikopa way!!
ok
LT! Your headline is somewhat misleading. As for rb case how can he be committed elsewhere. Ninshi abalume bakwa thandiwe bayambila ama games aya.
Oyu Mulombwana
Good Rupia, keeep on Shaninig away my Bro. Nothing will take by Supprise. Good thinking Sakwiba and Company.
guys I think the best RB can do is come down to earth,
1. apologize to the nation,
2. confess that truly he stole but he is asking for forgiveness,
3. then also promise to return every cent acquired from the proceeds of crime,
in return the government can let him enjoy the freedom… the money he is paying these greedy lawyers can be returned to tax payers and believe me he can walk again…
Who is with me on this one..? not another friday RB you will never rest
@ BIG L
apologise for what? Why should an innocent man apologise whilst looters are drinking champagne.RB must go with them to the wire after immediately after the funeral all these little frightened men persecuting him including munshumfwa kaunda will scamper in different directions
@whistleblower you are clearly mislead, well you can wish Sata dead as much as you need only God knows when that day will come not you, so since you guys supporting RB are as stubborn how about you take a chill pill..? time will tell
Ummm boss!
RB YOU ARE CLAIMING THAT YOU ARE CLEAN, DO NOT RUN AWAY, RATHER STAY AND PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE!
WHAT CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN CLEARING YOUR GOOD NAME AND SHAMING THOSE WHO ARE ACCUSING YOU.
YOUR HIDE AND SEEK TACTICS MERELY CONFIRM TO THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE THAT YOU REALLY STOLE FROM THEM. SHAME ON YOU MUDALA!
THE MORE YOU DELAY, THE MORE DAMAGED YOUR REPUTATION WILL BE! EVEN YOUR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTERS WILL BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE IF YOU CONTINUE LIKE THIS.
Whats there to hide, iwe na iwe. This is just persecution.
Just shut up!! U dont know anything my boy..
A friend once told me, “this people are accusing me of biwitching their relative. I will not go to funeral even if they think it proves their accusation, because if I go to the funeral, they could pour hot water on me and disfigure me. Later when it is proved that I did not bewitch their relative, the prove will be of no use to me because I will already be disabled.”
Rupiah, do not go to the prison to satisfy Mmembe’s hatred. They could kill you in there or harm you in prison. Do what the three judges who were purportedly suspended have done, and fight them every step of the way. You have nothing to prove. They are the ones who need to provide the prove. If a government wishes to be malicious, it can lock up any one. That is what they want to do to you. It does not prove their case.
In the civilised world there is no such thing as proving your innocence. What applies is that you are INNOCENT until proven guilty.
He has a lot of work to do, he is not running away, boss.
Ba LT, it is evident that the JGIT has failed to question RB because the latter failed to show up. Thus, instead of you saying “Investigators fail to question RB today”, why can’t you tweak the headline to read “RB fails to appear before investigators today” or concisely “RB shuns investigations today”? (Journalist advice though…)
rb kabolala mukalamba, we will wait for you monday. cisaakala
Muleumfwako ne nsoni chikkalah chenu ba useful iddiot.
JGIT please charge him I think his lawyers want to buy time, We want to see a speed conviction ka.
There is no buying time.This interrogation which was to be done today was merely meant to humiliate RB by caging him into Woodlands Police Cells together with common criminals.This is the climax of all this so call investigation.Their choice of Friday instead of Thursday was suspicious right from the word go.RB’s lawyers have done the right thing.Ask Fred M’membe who together with late Lucy Sichone went underground when the Police wanted to detain them.They only resurfaced after the courts overruled Parliament’s verdict to imprison the two.
RB is not buying time. I concur with his lawyers that the whole thing is a ”fishing exercise”. The officers handling the case have no clue on how to gather evidence which is still at Bwinjumfumu. They are still waiting for Mumembe to ”manufacture” the evidence.
VIVA RB!
Viva!
JGIT please charge him I think his lawyers want to buy time, We want to see a speed trial and conviction ka.
RB IS ALREADY IN THE NET. THE DELAYING TACTICS WILL YIELD NOTHING FOR HIM. I THINK HE WAS TIPPED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO ARREST HIM TODAY. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. IF THE MAN IS SURELY INNOCENT, LET HIM PROVE IT. I THINK THESE DELAYING TACTICS WILL CAUSE EVEN THE FEW THAT TRUSTED HIM TO NOW SEE FOR THEMSELVES THAT THE MAN IS GUILTY. HE HAS NO IMMUNITY SO HE CAN BE CAUGHT ANYWHERE. EVEN BY SUMMON. ANYWAY . HE NEEDS TO BE GIVEN TIME TO ARRANGE FOR MONIES FOR BAIL.
Ufwa iwe kasai,RB now is global asset.you think diffusing tenstion in kenya is a joke?
So immediately those pretenders want to cage him.sata will just receive a text message from jimmy carter asking him “hey what are you up to nigger?,play monkey and i gonna set bad boy ocampo on you.he gonna burst you leaking scrotum”.and it will end there.
There is no requirement for someone to prove themselves innocent. When will you learn this very simple concept?
This man has no immunity but why wasting time? There is nothing wrong with him just leave him alone. You want to appease the people of Zambia, and yet they are still waiting for 90 days of more money in their pockets? Fyabupuba Fye ba PF ifyo mule cita.
Remember Chiluba’s case. Private prosecutor, now DPP, knows how best to siphone GRZ money.Just watch him in GET RICH QUICKLY PART 2.
What nosense is this..? committed elsewhere..when he was busy looting tax payers money did he even give it a second thought..? come on you say you are innocent why play games with the law, RB’s lawyers lied to him but remember that he can run but not hide, he can buy time but he will still face the law…am amazed at some bloggers who are chanting ” good move” in support of RB…clearly the chap is not innocent imagine this continues and Sata with his regime also steal how will you feel..? and then the regime after that…? you cant be serious for once…eishh
SATA IS ALREADY STEALING.YOU THINK WE ARE BLIND.WAIT WHEN PARLAMENT RESUMES ITS SITTING, I WILL PRESENT A MOTION TO REMOVE HIS IMMUNITY.ITS COMING.
@yomba if Sata is stealing then him must be caged, we should not shield any plunderer because if we do then we must forget about developing our nation…I dont care who is to be caged and who shouldnt for as long as he/she is abusing tax payers hard earned money must face the law…we want sanity in our nation not supporting rapant corruption
Good on you RB and lawyers.Don’t let these dimwits play you.Everyone knows they wanted to lock our former president for the weekend.And has anyone seen our current president.Its unconstitutional for him to be hiding like this.Can’t the opposition Mps pass a motion in parliament so the nation is informed of the current status of our ‘beloved’president
Is he dead?
What big difference will it make if you are arrested on Friday or Monday or any other day for that matter? It is like dying on Monday intead of Friday. what difference does it make. THE GUILY ARE AFRAID!!!! KeKeKeKeKeKe.
There is a difference,Courts cannot handle such matters during weekends whilst RB would remain in cells!! Simple. Come monday,they will formerly arrest him and later on appear for mention in courts,eventually apply a bail!
It is the politics of minimization dear; when one is arrested on Friday afternoon, they may have to spend a minimum of 3 nights in detention just to wait for their bail application to be processed during the week days whereas when one is arrested on Monday they can spend a minimum of 1 night in detention…
No matter what the tricks the chap should face the law.Let have him locked up when he reports
So why have a trial since you have already convicted him?
Rat Race…Monkey Tricks….!! Only a rat can win a rat race…its gonna be a long long affair….till … do up part.
He did great taking the stripping of his immunity to high court. Since that issue is in the courts technically he still has immunity no-wander he did not how up today even on Monday he may not avail him self i suppose
Stop lying, which Constitution are you basing your opinions on? The Zambian Constitutions is available on Line, read it!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch and learn. Until the high court throws out his petition that investigative joint team is toothless. You think they would have spared him for not showing up without throwing him another charge & they politely agree to question him on Monday??
@Military Minds of a Drug Lord, are you following this story? Are you aware that he has already appeared before the JGIT twice.
Sakozi immunity has been lifted that he be investigeted
I keep telling these guys that caging RB must not mistaken for witch hunt but bringing sanity in our nation…I read about Sarkozy’s fate this morning….
Please don’t confuse issues. Sarkozy’s alledged crimes happened BEFORE he became President, not after. He was Mayor of Paris before that. Don’t read headlines only and go away thinking you know the whole story!
Ultimately he will be arrested on Monday,late in the Afternoon for him to taste the detention cells then he will meet the bail conditions following day.The whole scheme was to arrest Mr Banda today and have him spend weekend in the chillers.Suprisingly the chance to clear oneself is proving not to be but a ploy to buy time.SHAME ON SAKWIBA AND THE GROUP.
Where in the law does it say one must clear themselves? Shame on you for not understanding basic legal concepts of Rule of Law.
If politics is a dirty game, Law is a smart one. In short, RB’s Lawyers are deflating what poor lawyer Kabimba initiated in a rubber stamp parliament. It’s real Law at work versus weak politicians. The ending of all this will be interesting, unless the government uses intimidation, which it is known for.
Fellow blogers please educate me.When you are summoned by the investigation wings who has the power? The investigative wings or the person who has been surmoned? I have seen this happening not for the first time.Winter decided where and how to be interogated and now its Rupiah deciding by giving an excuse of am busy.Can an ordinary person do the same without boma taking him by force?Please help.
It is Zedian law, full of potholes. Those driving posh car can skip them. Zamfooters et al, of course, feel the full sting of the potholelaw. Sounds a little bit like Animal Farm. Perhaps, we can call it a Kolwe-farm.
Eya lelo…
chansa kabwela must be having a ‘last laugh’ after all.
there goes our former presido doing gymnastics together with his lawyers who are falling over themselves to represent the first family on all cases of plunder cos of ‘inzili’ they stole and are now paying them as legal fees. shame.
the only president in the world to have been embarrassed by a monkey that urinated on him. what a curse…
HATERS !!!!! Assume RB is jailed, will that stop future presidents from abusing their authority ? NO ! What we need is a good constitution. Be assured that if the next president start looking for abuses by MCS, S/he shall surely find them.
Its wrong to address us who think on the contrary as haters but anyhow suit yourself, here is the point my dear friend precedence is set, thus, should anyone found wanting the same would happen to them ( thrown in Jail ) tell you what, the reason why these leaders keep stealing is coz they seem to get away with it, but if this looter is caged who in his/her right frame of mind would want to take that route..? trust me no one.
DEC, IG, I AM BUSY. I’LL TALK TO YOU WHEN I AM FREE.
Mufulira and Kitwe towns have been engulfed in serious riots this morning over lack of mealimeal while Membe and all ministers are gathered at DEC offices waiting for RB. Its really sad with what is happening in Zambia. Removing RBs immunity was very urgent as opposed to finding a solution to the shortage of Meali meal. As I write there is heavy presence of police in tiot gear trying to restore peace.
What kind of thinking is this? Don’t you know that the shortage of mealimeal could be as a result of corruption . It doesn’t mean that when there is mealimeal shortage then Government should stop fighting corruption. For your information, other Government institutions should be proactive enough to take care of other country’s needs.
Its ok . Let him appear on afriday when the lawyers are free.
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR PROBLEMS
ARE LAWYERS
AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE PAID FOR.
WATCH THE SPACE . HOW DO THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? TIME TAKEN HANDLING
YOUR CASE
Mambala. Africans and the way we think! Many Africans steal from their own people and go put the stollen money in Western countries’ banks. The Western Countries’ use that money to empower their economies. So why do we do this, we Africans. Steal and invest it in your country so that even when they get it from you it will still be development in your own country. Why go empowered the already empowered in developed countries and not empower the poor in your country. Spent your loot within your country and just be prepared to defend yourself when the long arm visits you. What FTJ stole is just stuck in developed world up to now. Africans and the way we think! Expertriates keep sending money back to their countries of origin, whilst we steal and take it abroad. Crazy stuff, man.
Quoting Wynter Kabimba “We have learned lessons from MMD and we are not going to make them”. Further “I have challenged the TIZ to bring their own investigators and I will give them access to my bank accounts”. Wynter knows very well not to keep money in Zambia. He has learned the lessons from Austin Liato and crew not to bury money. On election day, before his diplomatic passport expires, he will be enjoying himself in Cuba.
This republic has gone to the dogs.Drama every day,arrests,killings,investigations and food shortages is all you read about.Are we still building the country and creating wealth or we stopped?
I hope history wont repeat itself. Nchito knows hw much he pocketed the gvt money n got rich while 1 chakuti cases reduced to only 2 for FTJ. Your Excellency, make sure that if he doesnt convict, let him go, instead, to jail!
The former France president lost his immunity and he is facing abuse of office case, when one is found wanting anywhere in the world the law will follow him. It is surprising that in our country this has to be linked with vindication and very shallow thinking, this action may not stop future presidents from stealing but if they do they should face the law. There will always be loop hole for this abuse no matter what we do. The question of wanting to stop this process because of the so much money lost doesn’t hold water. Shortage of medicines in hospitals is not a new thing even when we have not court sessions involving high profile figures we still have these issues. That is just another area that needs proper management. My point is when someone has a case to answer let them do that.
The case in France is very different bwan mkubwa. Read it again and understand. Do not comment from headlines. Efyo mwabipila mwebena Zambia, you read a headline and you think you know the whole story.
His alledged crimes were committed while he was campaigning in 2007 BEFORE he became President. Please napapata read!
Ala Bee is a shameless coward, what do his vultures mean that he is committed elsewhere? Ala Bee’s passport should be confiscated as soon as possible. This chap has no immunity and should stop these very very very silly childish games with the Zambian people when you make an appointment you keep it or inform us that you can’t make it 24hrs in advance.
He is not under arrest. By law, you cannot compel a witness to answer questions unless he is arrested. You understand? If the GJIT think that he MUST answer, then they can arrest him even at his home.
Let us not encourage stealing! People have amassed wealth selfishly at the expense of the majority Zambians and you want such people to go scot free? justice is justice even the bible is very clear on this issue. Let justice take its course.
NABALISHAMO KALE. THIS CASE WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE. BABUJU HAVE THERE CUT ALREADY. JUS WATCH THE DRUMMER PA Z.
Irrespective of the severity of the impending charge against Mr. Banda, he still retains his constituttional rights of pursuing other available legal avenues in avoiding being charged with whatever the investigators might charge him of. Note that we have not been informed if the investigation teams are very close to pinning down Mr. Banda to suspected criminal acts. All that which they are doing is fishing in the unfishable waters hoping that the suspect can implicate himself in suspected criminal acts. The investigators are busy attempting to establish a ‘criminal intent’ on the part of Mr Banda and, the manner in which time is being wasted, all likelihoods are that simply mentioning a person as a party to a criminal act is not strong enough to withstand robust legal challenges.This is…
“Let’s just stick to the fact that the questioning is off for now until Monday,” she quipped.
She what? She QUIPED! What is witty in this answer?
The circus has just rolled into town.
What you have reported is a fact, that it is indeed true that Banda did not turn up for questioning not what we read elsewhere on Watchdog that Banda’s lawyers have prevented him from being locked up. I am from posting the following comment on Watchdog stating as follow: “Mwandi you can really laugh when you read Watchdog. This is real typical comedy. I read the Watchdog not for news but just to laught at the kind of yellow journalism being practiced on this site. It’s a matter of just hallucinating and dreaming up things which dont even exist. God help us. Among the social sites, I usually read Lusaka Times if I want to read balanced well researched news
Just as parliament cannot debate a matter that is before the courts of law, the courts also can not determine what motion parliament should debate. THAT IS SEPARATION OF POWERS MWE BANTU. In this particular case, the constitution specifically talks about immunity of a president and that when there are suspicions of impropriety in conduct on the party of a President, PARLIAMENT (not the courts or executive) can strip him/her of that immunity. Not the courts to determine wether parliament can debate the motion to strip immunity of such a one. That is not the business of the court! The separate arms of government compliment one another but are not supposed to cajole or interefere with each other’s business.
The above investigations can be viewed from so many legal perspectives, notice that irrespective of differentiated arguments in diverse legal systems in the global sphere, one can still retain similarities between applications and interpretations of laws and, also the rule/law of evidence after carefully analysing areas of compelling interests. The above case in point involving Mr Banda, though not yet on a charge sheet in court of law, presents many challenges to the prosecution fraternity in its current form. Simply put, ,one hand it opens up alot of loopholes which can be manipulated by an excellent criminal defense attorney and on other hand, it predisposes both the suspect and inexperienced legal reresentatives to panick and psychological related disorders which advantages the state
If you don’t want jail time, Don’t steal. Its plain simple.
Law Vs Politics….or are they one and the same thing!!
Just off the record, Mr Banda should combine the services of both criminal defense attorneys and good practicing clinicians who can work out some grounds after weighting Mr Banda’s explanatory model as a patient and their own explanatory model as professional clinicians. Due to his profile and his contested connection with criminals already implicated in ‘Zambia’s oil scandal’, he is already a patient like any human in the similar situation and, can easily be predisposed to any form of exploitation be it legal exploitation, or economic exploitation by those who have financial interests in this developing story. Our area of concern is the legal approach, all loopholes are out in the open and state has not opted not to jump the gun but they know that their approach so far does more…
For u to prove that there ‘ll be no sacred cows in this fight to bring plunderers to book wait 4 yo rb to be in new mukobeko very sn. my pay in rb time ws 500pin shortly in PF time its 2metre, congolomerate!!!!!! cage the b*****d soon
In my above sumised outlook/overview of possible activities which might or might not lead to the emergence of two camps namely the state senior prosecuting advocates and a formidable defense team of experienced attorneys, I am not conveying a message which approves any wrong doing on the part of Mr Banda as acceptable and unpunishable. However, depsite the fact that a crime was committed, proper processes must be followed by interested stakeholders in given areas of their respective interests. If an attorney fails to amplify his advantageous abilities in a given argument arising out of noticeable weaknesses in the opposite party’s stragtegies, then it is unfortunate either for the state or for the defense. It follows that an accused might be acquitted despite having had participated.
Dear Rupiah Banda aka Ala Bee,
Rapiah you and I both know you don’t have any commitments whatsoever today; you are just chin wagging with your legal vultures and other vile criminals. You can preoccupy yourself with whatever activities but iwe Rapiah how many times are you going to postpone this appointment. That sound you hear at night or when are alone is the sound of inevitability.That is the sound of inevitability; It is the sound of your judgement day.You avail yourself and let us get over with this; the better for everyone.
With warmest wishes
Maxwell
Upon my own mirroring of the above imposed comments which emanant from the psyches of persons who are obscured with judgement formed on the twisted unilateral PF’s overview of Mr Banda’s conduct while in office, I urge our fellow comrades to notice that a line between speculations and facts is not blurred but it is very clear. Form your own judgement based on given facts not twisted prescribed ‘facts’ given to you so that you can see the bigger picture through their lenses. This line of accepting and applying what the popular masses impose on you is exactly what confirms the fact that courts are irrelevant because the outcomes are known before courts can test them and, are taken for granted without interrogating them, yet they must be tested before the labelling theory can be…
Come on RB supporters do you know where RB was staying before he became vice president? At that farm on airport road opposite Lundazi turnoff in chipata and Thandiwe was a teacher at nyakutwa primary school. Stop supporting nothing, there is nothing to support.
His lawyers are going to milk him dry just wait and see.
Wise words of wisdom!
@Monitor#52
As a former head of state, there is a question of entitlement , therefore the state will foot his legal costs. The victims of the huge accused’s account in the above likelihood of a court hearing involving Mr Banda, are the tax-payers not Mr Banda. Check your facts and account for every item you bring to the fore, thank you and have a good day.
UBUFI, YOU STEAL FROM THE GVT AND GVT FOOT UR BILL.!! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO RB. EVEN CHILUBA WAS USING HIS MONEY. ITS LIKE YOUR SON STEAL FROM YOU AND YOU START PAYING FOR HIS LEGAL FEES. WHY TAKE HIM TO COURT IN FIRST PLACE IF YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR HIS DEFENCE?
Boom & Whatever, why have you failed to respond to the very important aspect of my post i.e RB’s quality of life before he became vice president? Do you know or you are just supporting to support? Would you care to tell us where he got all this money or it doesn’t matter provided you eat with him? Would you also be able to explain how a primary school teacher could own as big an estate as mpundu trust in just three years of being a first lady? Can i go on?
The state will only foot legal fees if president RB wins the court case otherwise it’s him.
it will be a long circus… continue bringing some more poncorns pls.
IT’S GONNA BE A FRIDAY, IF IT’S NOT THIS THIS FRIDAY THEN LETS THEM TRY NEXT FRIDAY OR FRIDAY NEXT!!! BUT IT’S GOTTA BE A FRIDAY TO PIN RB.ESPECIALLY ON FRIDAY THE 13TH!!!! HEHEHEHE
Ok, temusaalula. Iyi game naikosa. Its game of wits.! Nomba ndemona kwati RB technical bench is like that of Barca n our govt tech bench is Power FC. Bt bola ili pachilata. Ukuwina kubomfya ubukaka…..Ndeloleshafye..kikikikikikikiki.Awe mwandi nebo na dabwa!
40 years after independence, nothing to write home about, only two pedestrian bridges and some shops along great east road and church road, how can I be patriotic with such nonsense obtaining pa Zed?
The President is dead; which one? Some land locked country in Americans or Africa? We need him as state witness in the Netherlands
It is Zedian law, full of potholes. Those driving posh car can skip them. Zamfooters et al, of course, feel the full sting of the potholelaw. Sounds a little bit like Animal Farm. Perhaps, we can call it a Kolwe-farm.
mumangeni mambala, he thinks he is un touchable, lock him up mambala