Sinjembela Member of Parliament (MP) Poniso Njeulu has filed an injunction restraining the United Party for National Development (UPND) from expelling him from the party.
Mr Njeulu has asked the Lusaka High Court to declare his purported expulsion announced by the party’s National Management Committee (NMC) as null and void because his case was not tabled before the disciplinary committee.
Mr Njeulu who is also deputy minister of Information and Broadcasting Services wants the court to stop the party from writing to the Speaker of National Assembly to declare his parliamentary seat vacant.
Mr Njeulu has sued UPND party secretary general Winston Chibwe for expelling him from the party.
The MP indicated that the decision to expel him was as a result of him accepting a deputy ministerial position by President Michael Sata who used his Constitutional rights to appoint him.
In his Statement of claim filed in the High Court the defendant contended that his purported expulsion by the UPND was misleading,illegal and did not conform to the rules of the party as well as natural justice.
He wanted the court to declare that he was still the elected MP for Sinjembela Constituency as he was not accorded an opportunity to be heard by the National Management Committee that sat to decide his exit from the party.
“I am asking the Court to restrain UPND from communicating to the National Assembly to declare my seat vacant because I am the duly elected MP for Sinjembela Constituency, the decision by the NMC to expel me is null and void as it flouted party rules,” Mr Njeulu said.
He said as a result of the party’s decision to expel him he had suffered loss and damages and wanted the court to grant him an injunction that would also restrain his party from further writing to the Speaker or further facilitating to deliberate on this matter.
UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma announced last week that the decision to expel Mr Njeulu was arrived at by the party’s NMC meeting which sat in Lusaka on Thursday, May 22, 2014.
The party decided to expel Mr Njeulu from the party for alleged misconduct and that Mr Chibwe had since written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Patrick Matibini to declare the Sinjembela seat
vacant.
I thought Njeulu was daring the UPND to expel him so that he could beat them in a by-election..
Njeulu is now scared to lose his seat, if a by-election was to be held in his constituency and he stood under PF, he would miserably lose.
Ba mwaba, these guys are a problem
Politics of the belly, ncelela bula
Hahahaha. The chap is a spineless coward after all. He dared his former party to expel him and it has done just that. Why take court action then? Bwana Njeulu you are abusing the court system because just recently Chilangwa informed the nation that you and your fellow politicians of the belly – Siamunene and Monde – had reached a point of no return and were now members of PF. Be courageous and stop behaving like a guy who constantly provokes and teases a vicious dog with full knowledge of the consequences when it breaks loose from the chain restraining it from biting him just there and then.
What an ***** called Poniso! Why stick to a party which you have betrayed for few pieces of silver?
What an Id.iot called Poniso! Why stick to a party which you have betrayed for few pieces of silver?
Njeulu lucks principals so for once let the judiciary impress us by dismissing injuction UPND we love you, please keep pumping the pressure.
ZAMBIA FORWARD: HH is da only solution.
Greetings to all da UPND surpporters.
Thanks!
Au, Poniso, esi luna neluli u poho Numwa Imakena ye bopoloha! U betekile party yahao mi cwale fa baku lunduzi mwa party yabona, fair enough, so why are you contesting the expulsion? Kanti u pulu feela, malukwe ao hakuna mwateni malete kappa nemba. U pulu feela wena, wa swabisa nja ya mutanganyo tuwe.
Tongas are happy bcos by election are being created by their fellows cos if its pf causing unnecessary by election their mouths cud have reached overseas that pf a missusing public funds, this is the reason y upnd will never form government and the constitution they a demanding which 50 +1 whom do they think can vote 4 them? we a tired with thier insults and their insults will vote for them
Poniso Njeulu, you’re an ldiot! You rushed to your Post Newspapers and dared the UPND to meet you in a by-election. Now you rush to the court to prevent that election from coming??!! ka-Swine!
you chanda chimbwi ponda, who told you that upnd is for tongas. you are a chimbwi no plan.
That is all he can do. It is clear who is backing him. Nothing stays the same forever, mr expelled MP
Njeulu is a mastarbating in public. He is an ***** and he must leave. Boko Haram where are you??? I am not happy.
POLITICAL PROSITUTE NJEULU BE MAN ENOUGH
NJEULU SHOULD STOP ABUSING THE COURT. YOU CHALLENGED UPND PARTY TO EXPEL YOU AND WE HAVE JUST DONE THAT NOW WHY START CRYING. YOU ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE ZAMBIA TO REMAIN POOR BECAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS THINKING OF YOUR SELVES NOT THE COMMON PERSONS YOU CLAIM TO REPRESENT. JUST LEAVE UPND AND THE PRINCIPLED MPS ALONE. JUST GO TO THE FAILED PROJECT PF AND APARTY DIVIDED LIKE SAND. VIVA HH. VIVA UPND. BE REMINDED THAT MICHEAL SATA IS SICK AND THE PF IS SICK AS WELL AS PF IS MICHEAL SATA. NO MICHEAL SATA NO PF. PF CAN NOT WIN AN ELECTION WITH OUT MICHEAL SATA. SO NJEULU ITS EITHER YOU APOLOGISE TO UPND OR ELSE FORGET ABOUT BEING AN MP AGAIN. AS THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL THAT PF IS A ONE TERM GOVERNMENT. VIVA HH. VIVA UPND