Heritage Party President Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda said that the postponement of the bye-elections in Petauke Central, Malambo and Mulobezi by the “Supreme Court” raises more questions than it answers. In a statement to the media, General Miyanda alleged that the threatened “engagement” of the High Court by PF Secretary General has taken place.
Below is the full statement.
THE PF ‘ENGAGEMENT’ WITH THE SUPREME COURT HAS BORNE FRUIT
[By Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda – 9th August 2013]
The postponement of the bye-elections in Petauke Central, Malambo and Mulobezi by the “Supreme Court” raises more questions than it answers. The identity of the Judge who made the order is unknown; The threatened “engagement” of the High Court by PF Secretary General has taken place.
Suddenly the Supreme Court which has been silent all along became awake on Thursday evening and issued an order by a public relations officer instead of by the Court. We demand that the Supreme Court issues a formal order, signed by the Court that must also indicate whom Hon Kabimba “engaged” and what was the nature of the “engagement”. Who were the parties to the “engagement”?
At the time of the above article we were not aware that the PF Secretary General had sought the opinion of the Solicitor General. Was he doing this as PF Secretary General or as Minister of Justice or both? Clearly he was doing so on behalf of the PF.
How much did the PF pay for the service? Or is there a new policy which allows political parties to seek the opinion of the Solicitor General? How many times has the PF abused the AG’s Chambers in this way? This may appear trivial on the surface of it; but the behaviour of the PF Secretary General calls for such scrutiny because it suggests some collusion between the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the office of the PF Secretary General.
How is it that within hours of the “engagement” statement the Supreme Court was moved to make a statement about the bye-elections, which have now been postponed? It is improper and irregular for the Courts to hold court with only one of the parties to a matter.
Perhaps there was no party cited! Nevertheless we support the action by the ECZ because the Supreme Court, which overturned the High Court decision, must follow the law, prepare the Report and call on all the affected candidates to be heard before being named; this will be justice as per the current electoral law.
We further suggest that all opposition parties must now begin to obtain the Solicitor General’s opinion in all their cases, free if the PF has not been billed.By the way our statement titled “Minister of Justice or Partisan PF cadre?” was published on page 1 of the Daily Nation of 8th August and the full statement on page 6 of the 9th August 2013. It was also carried by the online newspaper the Zambian Eye on 8th Aug 2013 but has been removed from the website. Is it a coincidence?
GODFREY MIYANDA,BRIGADIER GENERAL,HERITAGE PARTY[9TH AUGUST 2013]
BRIGADIER GENERAL GODFREY MIYANDA- you are a true general, you always make a lot sense, kabimba will account for his acts, 2016 is not far.
Many times Brig. Gen. Miyanda has made meaningful statement, but he has gotten this one wrong.
He is way off the mark and he sound to be all over the place and not the usual level headed guy we respect.
Maybe it was hastily and emotionally done. Get back to your rational input
Why wait for 2016? Kabimba must be arrested!!
If Sata is man, then he should see the danger in Kabimba, The General can not just wake-up to defend Zambians, something is wrong here.
Sata Sata common man, listen from GBM, Panji, Lubinda and Scott that KABIMBA must GO!! Send him to Sudan or Cuba as ambassador, he doesn’t deserve to be in Zambia in 2013. He is a DISASTROUS!
How come Major Kachingwe doen’t reason like General Miyanda, and yet same training?
@nostadamus
To save kabimba from himself, he must sent as ambassador to a afghanistan or iraq,,, those chaps there know how to sort out ma lawyer bopusa
@maketula
they did not do the same training,,, miyanda is a soldier and kachingwe is a gardener
kabimba should be prosecuted for abuse of office now.This shows that we have no government and 2016 is to far just now he should be removed and prosecuted and he should know that GOD is warcthing him.
@1.1 aromatic aldehide, even his coup plot he got it wrong. Even his escape, he got it wrong. Wonder what this general gets right; See where he is politically.
@Ndobo, where have you being man? Looking for Kabimba? Edgar is looking for him, for questioning he is so slippery!! “Ati mulefwaya Ba Kabimba, ililine fye mwafika elyo bafumapo, ipusheni Sylvia”. We citizens will arrest him.
Who is MAKETULA? He must be a new comer, we greatly welcome such names = MAKETULA…. yayayaya twasanswa! Te Mutembo uyu?
@nostadamus
I have been around and about, This nut kabimba is problem, side effects of medication cant be ruled out here.
The problem with Edgar lungu is that he is forever drank, so he wont `see` when he goes for kabimba.
iwe naiwe nostradamus… niba make tula (maketula) mu chibemba natula.. in english mother to tula… next time please be nice the lady……
since when did Miyanda become a legal advisor?
Fwaka uleke!
General Miyanda has been a legal brain long before you were born and he defended himself in the high court when tortured and falsely detained in the Shamwana failed coup detat
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He is knowledgeable and, like you, he is a citizen who can write about anything to air his views. The difference is that you can only do that on bloggs while he can give you something to write about. He is no legal advisor but some making observations about legal issues. We all do it…
@ 2.3
u are correct hes giving poeple smthn to blog abt he is givn pipo smthn to debate abt wtht his statment the same critics wouldnt have voiced out their grievances and opinions.well said
ba Miyanda balipwa, he should archive himself than repeatedly embarrassing himself.This is one way of supporting corruption.People who tirelessly supported Chiluba’s persecution are today against the prosecution of even serious corruption acts done the people they support.Look at the way the judicially supporting the wrong doings of their members.If indeed they are clean let them be proved right by the tribunal they are blocking.Opposition, double standards.
So what will happen to Kapiri poshi where the UPND losing candidate was in a similar sitution like Dora and others?
What is going on in my beloved country,please lets not abuse the powers and follow procedure.Where is the democracy i faught for?i dont want my country to turn into one party state please.
whats yo suggestion?
Stranger than ficition… its only in zambia were things like that happen,,, minister of justice order the supreme court to make a judgement in his favour!!! strange but true….
To start a train, zambia railways workers have to pust the train but prof chirwa the messiah was fired…..strange but true
PF is scare of Dora,,strange but true
The list goes on and one
A general indeed!
Can Sata and his minions understand that I voted for them in 2011 to work. So far we have not seen you do that.
I am not interested in which MP is in parliament or which party has the most number of MP’s. I need to to show Leadership, and not continue wasting our time.
Whose constituency does this self-aggrandizing ‘general’ represent? Last time I checked he was heading a one-man party responsible for concepts at his ‘village’ in Petauke. Always answering his own questions! Out!
This general alone has a higher IQ, brains and Leadership that all PF minions, starting from Sata and his bloated PF government put together.
Sata has really disapointed me. I am celebrating with the same maginitude when he dies soon.
The Zambian Constitutuency
100% correct!
PF is Sata, and will die the day he does. My confort is that is happening soon.I need a Leader who understands what majority of the people need.
You MAY DIE earlier than him. Never wish anyone dead!
Sata is dying soon, whether you like it or not. Continue leaving in your own Fantasy on his leaving!!!!
How come ZNBC didn’t show Sata on TV on his return from Hospital on Thursday. Starting to think the one that came was not Sata, and that he is still Hospitalised.
Agony is to make fun of your friends sickness for 10 years while in opposition only not to last 2 years as President.
Bauza General!This stupid PF should be taught a lesson,Zambians please lets wake up and fight for our democracy.Zambia is bigger than kabimba winter maize and the bufi president.
General, bosa tumfwe!
BRI,GENERAL MIYANDA’S statement is political and lack legal advice. we want someone independent to speak on this matter not person with bitter heart like the BRIGA GENERAL MIYANDA since when does he come to praise the government on good works he always seen when they is a mistake to condenm, how we trust him?
in active politician,be active and participate in by elections
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul ?
What does it profit a party to fraudulently repossess all the seats from the opposition and lose it’s credibility?
Hell on earth . What a mediocre PF gvt . We are in trouble fellow zambians . I voted for PF in order to see democracy tenets be promoted. Sata-na can take back ur hell frm Zambia. 2016 is very far to reverse my vote
But ndiwe ka-General ka bwanji? You joined politics a long time ago without bearing fruits. Who do you think can follow you? You are just the same as a new married man who cant impregnant a woman after that long fight without clothes.
Are you not ashamed of your rubbish? Can you compare your lunatics in PF with the only General Zambia has ever produced? You are supposed to be happy to see our Zambian General articulating the law more than the so called learned lawyers. Shame on you.
Kolwe. When were you born? The only General Zambia has ever produced? And law has he articulated that has impressed you? This man can not even master 2 votes from his own household. Simply put he is totally irrelevant to Zambian politics!
One thing is certain about the God of Heaven. He is certainly in control and He will be on our side. Leaders come and go . Friends in power you seem to have forgotten so soon.
The General is right. Now let’s see what the Roman Catholic bishops will do.
@maketula says; General Miyanda is a real soldier whilst Major Kachingwe is a farmer major who was growing cabbage and rearing chickens ku ZNS and the defunct RR -Rural reconstruction branch of the once famous green lushi-Zambia National Service during the Kaunda regime.General Miyanda is Buchi born man of Kitwe who does not fear anyone but speaks the truth.The goodness of the General and his Angela is that they are born again Christians who down to earth and have a lot of respect for humanity.The general is a great thinker and likes to debate on issues affecting the citizenry unlike the other gentleman from ZNS.
No Bye Election has been postponed but nominations for the three Constituencies by ECZ in the light of current happenings though bye elections are to be held as gazetted unless their are changes eventually, LAZ has categorically put things straight and it is a waste of time for the Might General to be making funnie and meaningless statements to suit his previous publications. Supreme court has not issued any statement to that effect but the PR for the Judiciary whose statement is no binding to any concern party to the issue at hand.
No Bye Election has been postponed but nominations for the three Constituencies by ECZ in the light of current happenings though bye elections are to be held as gazetted unless their are changes eventually, LAZ has categorically put things straight and it is a waste of time for the Might General to be making funnie and meaningless statements to suit his previous publications. Supreme court has not issued any statement to that effect but the PR for the Judiciary whose statement is no binding to any concern party to the issue at hand.
Hear Hear, well observed yet again General Miyanda, kudos to you.
Democracy entails listening to the people and empowering the people, not subjecting the people. We need more of General Miyanda’s calibre to stand for the interests of the masses.
Wher shud Kabimba go?Pipo hate justice.The man is on curse & executng his job nicely.The man is givng legal advise.Dnt hate Kabimba hate the game!
Since you ask, I imagine many people here can think of one or two places Kabimba might go.
One obvious place is dark and wet with faecal matter.
Does this General cum scrap metal dealer and politician actually have any supporters? His rantings of late suggest that of a man you has been paid to make senseless statements.
It’s a pity that stupidity like the one you exhibit has no limitation
GOD bless you General and I believe God is using you to protect us from the rooten judicialy and pf crocks.
General Miyanda we salute you for being a voice of reason in these dark days in Zambia. You are showing maturity and true leadership. God bless you and God b?ess and deliver Zambia
PF is like a money who a lady can no longer entertain after realing the chap is a brute full. But the man called PF wants to rape the lady now.
PF is like a man who a lady can no longer entertain after realing the chap is a brute full. But the man called PF wants to lape the lady now.
PF is like a man who a lady can no longer entertain after realing the chap is a brute full. But the man called PF wants to rep the lady now. We are under siege
If the world has seen generals, Miyanda is a general indeed
It is sad that the person the PF is using to rape the constitution is the Chief Justice herself . If the Winter Kabimba was the one raping the constitution people would somehow understand because his anaconda has been used in the past to rape the country’s laws. Pay day is coming.
Onward Christian soldier, fight a good fight for Country. If only PF could engage and respond point-for-point……. But then again, that would be like expecting water out of a stone.
@Cactus,which christianity are u talking about?U and yo fellows create lies and begin to support that.Wat has this general said?When 1 of these fine days he speaks to de contrary u will undress him. U are fo o ls.kabimba bravo!
@Osmore, your response proves my point, and speaks volumes about your lack of ability to engage point-for-point and stay on course on the subject the General has raised above as well as what he raised last Thur 8th August 2013.
Jeremiah the prophet in the bible spoke what God asked him to say even though he did not have a following. Gen is intelligent and speaks the truth. He does not need crowds of people around him to speak sense. This is a matter every Zambian should tackle. We should not allow a few people to compromise our intgrity and rob us of democratic rights in the name of having been put into our offices.
Bring in foreign Judges to clean up this Supreme Court? It’s clearly partisan. Chibesakunda must go…
we brought you a malawian you complained, what kind of pipo are you. Now which foreigner do you want.
Was Gen Miyanda aware that there was a law which barred a candidate whose seat had been nullified due to corruption or was he also asleep like the whole country has been for over 20 years? The fact that the matter was raised by the ruling PF shouldn’t be used against them as threatening the judiciary. This law like many other laws which no-one wants to enforce has been in our statute books before PF came into power and it was just a matter of time before someone reminded us about its existence. The opposition should find new candidates and those barred must be asking corruption charges in court
How come ZNBC didn’t show Sata on TV on his return from Hospital on Thursday. Starting to think the one that came was not Sata, and that he is still Hospitalised.
Agony is to make fun of your friends sickness for 10 years while in opposition only not to last 2 years as President.
Ici ci weak soldier has suddenly woken up from hibernation, while his fellow opposition leaders are busy campaigning for their respective parties cena cili busy brushing up on his grammar. Someone please wake him up and remind him 2013 is just around the corner.
Zambian’s should be grateful that someone raised this important law issue who has shockingly been overlooked by all zambians for such a long long time.
The Gen is not adding any value to our Politics. He only awakes when they are elections! Enough of him!!
As General Miyanda raises pertinent issues at a national level, I can augment his sentiments by focussing on the Mkaika Constituency. I pray that all the Chewa and Nsenga peoples will take this message seriously.
The Eastern region is dominated by the Chewa, and Nsenga speaking peoples. With regards to Mkaika, all the Chewa people should respect Paramount Chief Gawa Undi for his wisdom and that extends to Malawi and Tete ,
The PF has an intelligent system to identify the weakest politicians in the opposition parties and used them to cause chains of by-elections. Mpezeni is a victim of this project.
Hence all the Chewa people should vote of an MMD candidate as a mark of respect for Chief Undi. Similarities of names for Chewas and Nsengas speaks volumes of their genetic relations.
Majata cows are too many on this site. We need another site. They have infiltrated from Watchgalu and start polluting our own LT.