Former President Rupiah Banda will tomorrow morning leave for South Africa to attend the 2013 African Presidential Roundtable following the release of his passport.
The Boston University African Presidential Centre has re-booked the former head of State on tomorrow’s South African Airways flight departing Lusaka at 07:15 hours as the last flight today had already left by the time the passport was being released.
President Banda’s slot at the Roundtable has since been moved to tomorrow and he will, among other things, moderate in session-two under the subject “Making Government Work”, whose discussant will be former Mauritius President, His Excellency Karl Auguste Offmann.
He will also be in time for session-three to be moderated by former Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume under the title “Democracy: The Social Contract”.
President Banda will be accompanied to South Africa by his administrative assistant Mikatazo Wakumelo and former economic advisor Richard Chembe.
Other notable personalities attending the African Presidential; Roundtable are former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former South African president Thabo Mbeki, former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga and Martin Luther King Jnr, a professor of ethical leadership at Boston University.
Earlier today, The Lusaka high court ordered that former president Rupiah Banda’s passport be released.
The ruling was made on Thursday by high court judge in charge Jane Kabuka.
The high court yesterday reserved ruling on the matter to today. In an interview with ZNBC News, Mr. Banda’s lawyer Sakwiba Sikota said the ruling will just be for the trip to South Africa.
He revealed that the defence team will be making applications every time the former head of state intends to travel. Mr. Banda’s passport will be in the possession of the surety Mikatazo Wakumelo.
Oweeeee, pushi naikata impuku iikulu. Watch that mouth.
Good to hear!.. i hope nothing happens at airport as you go…. if you can when you in RSA, please consider not returning to the Zoo in lusaka
The court only ordered that the passport be released. It did not order the immigration officer to allow him to travel. That mambala is is not going anywhere mark my words.
@Action man
you sound bitter,,,is it because courts has ordered the release of RB`s passport????
Ndobo, I don’t want us to risk losing this thief like his son. If RB runs away the court won’t even help to bring him back. He must be cleared first before starts globe trotting. Judge Kabuka can’t even help us to bring Henry back to answer questions
@action man
who is `us`???… you and your bitter gang should bring forward hard core evidence,,, not rumours from the post newspaper
@Action Man, what about the mambalas who are currently stealing now by awarding each other contracts to supply high value items to the Government, while we watch? I think you know their names. Since they are travelling freely what do you suggest happens to their passports?
Efyo baingilamo ba Banda to join the son
Kwisa longamo ka Mikatazo Wakumelo.
Zoonda uzalema!
Truly with a Zambian flag!!!!!!!! It time to eat!!!!!. We are coming to sort you all out.
Eat and Eat until you vomit. By the way I pay tribute to Grandma In-law who told me that the “Mouth Never appreciates” it just makes go frequently to the toilet
THANK U MR RB FOR SELL MEALIE MEAL AT
36KWACHA PER BAG 25KG
THESE TIATANIC PF ARE SELLING THE SAME
FOR 75KWACHA PER BAG.
BUFI BUHATA KUBEJA BONZA WRNYE IS THEIR STLYE OF GOVERNANCE.
Thanks my man – you simply cant argue with facts unless of course you are pa fipuba supporter with your head buried up Ukwa’s or Mutembo Nchito’s fat ar.se.
Please be safe……RB (President of all Zambians).
Those who signed his bail application as sureties should really be worried, because I can not rule out this man cutting the rope, RB and trips, am sure he is already packed and might even consider using the late evening flight, if there was one, lol!!!!
six month imprisonment or pay the cash you are gone. True story of one foreigner criminal in Nyimba who was dealing in drugs. Caught by police ask for the bond and sureties. Bond 25 million. Then he gave the sureties three times as much. off he went. police picked the sureties to the court and court ask to pay or face imprisonment of six months. they paid 25 meter each. case closed.
No one will be allowed to leave KK International Airport. Having your passport is no guarantee that one can travel. Immigration is waiting for you Sir!!
@action man
you are just bitter
RB is going nowhere. We are getting him at the airport. That is what is called separation of powers.
I told you that we are meeting with RB at the Airport in the name of KK, and for sure we have done it again. RB is a flight risk coupled with his stupid lawyer monsterdam. We cannot allow him out of Zambia. Am surprised the old man looks so desperate to go just to give a lecture. mmmm i smell a rat. The desperation is tto much bane. Anyway, we have sorted him out and put him wher he belongs. next time he should ask BU to come and have meetings in Zambia, then will allow him to be part of the meetings.
I`m happy for him.Hope he will come back.I will give him a benefit of a doubt.
Efyobaya ba Zambia.Good lucky with your refugee asylum application bashi Mpundu.
Where is Tandiwe? I will not be surprised if the immigration does not allow this corrupt old man to leave the country. They are waiting. Who would be so stupid as to allow this man to go and join the thieving Son in SA.
You can rant and rant and rant but “ALA..BEE” will never be jailed and has nothing to fear in Zambia. If they can fail to arrest Dora Siliti, Liato, Maxwell Mwale, Namulambe, Shikapwasha, Chanda the prophet, uuuuuhhhhhhuummn imwe the list is endless but no arrests. This should tell you much about this PoorFailures and their threats. Leave alaaabeeee alone and why subject him to such nonsense???
You can not put a GOOD man down
You mean a thief? RB is a mambala as will be provede very soon.
@Action Man, someone said you are a thief too and they say there is evidence.
@Action man, why are you so personal? Did RB eat your mother?
I am really keeping my fingers crossed that he will not be stopped at the airport. Time for RB’s reckoning is coming, the courts are hearing his cases and they will reach judgement. In the meantime let him enjoy his innocence until proven guilty! Safe trip boss and watch what you say in RSA. Remember you have right to remain silent because anything you say can be used against you in the courts of law…!
chalabutuka chimukukulu filyafine fyacita umwana
be glad Action man , membe’s propaganda has really made you bitter
right now membe has lost a lot of credibility , now we are tightening
our belts because of membe on top of the same old problems Zesco, no money, no jobs
RB should be let to go tomorrow without unnecessary flexing of muscles by the powers that be. He is a more credible ambassador for Zambia around the world than the president.
RB will be back home soon, so as you PF and UPND clowns can shut your beaks and bilomos.
Owe nomba azwenga uyu kabwalala
I hope our dear papa RB can be allowed to leave the stinky airport without the harrassment or dirty tricks used by this evil regime that knows no rule of law.
Why do you let that gorilla to go? You think he will come back to his cage?
Ba LT update your news posting.We hear R.B has been blocked dispite a court order shown to immigration at K.K airport. Whats going on kanshi?is some one operating above the law?
Ba Mwalasa tHe guy was stopped from boarding. He he he!
usaka – Zambian immigration authorities on Friday blocked former president Rupiah Banda from leaving the country for the third time in nearly two months.
Banda, who is facing corruption charges, was stopped from boarding a flight to South Africa despite a High Court order releasing his passport.
“We did all the airport formalities but surprisingly an immigration officer came and said he had instructions from above not to allow president Banda to travel,” his press aide Kennedy Limwanya told AFP.
“We showed him a court order but he still said he could not allow us.”
Banda was set to fly to South Africa on a morning flight for a conference, after the High Court ruling on Thursday.
His planned trip has been marred by hiccups after a magistrate’s court refused to return…
Ya koma ba PF nabo!
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