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The Constitutional Court has thrown out the petition challenging the re-election of President Edgar Lungu.

The Court ruled that the petition stood dismissed for want of jurisdiction by midnight on Friday.It said there is no petition to be heard today.
It said its jurisdiction on the petition ended and expired last Friday at 23:59 Hours.

The Petitioners re-hired the same lawyers and included Vincent Malambo, SC.The only respondent represented is the Attorney General only for purposes of informing the court that we will take no further part in the proceedings as the court has no jurisdiction to continue hearing the matter.

The lawyers contend that any hearing beyond the 14 days would be unconstitutional.The lawyers have refused to participate in a process that is outside the law.
They contend that Hakainde Hichilema’s lawyers had their day in the 14 days allocated to them by the Constitutional Court.

The petitioners’ lawyers had requested to see the court in chambers.The court refused to be seen in chambers.

Judge Sitali, Judge Mungeni and Judge Mulonda ruled that the petition should not be heard while Justice Munalula and Justice Chibomba, the President of the Concourt ruled that the petition should be heard but the majority won by 3 against 2.

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276 COMMENTS

  1. Just one word; CIRCUS!!!
    The whole process has been a sham, that’s this court’s legacy!
    The fact is, these judges have not acquitted themselves well and this is a view shared by both parties (PF and UPND). The embarrassing flip-flops rulings do not instil confidence in our judiciary.
    I doubt any of these judges ever worked as constitutional lawyers.

    • So goes down the drain our very lives. Let evil triumph. Let it rule. We died long before we were born. Zambian democracy is dead.

    • Law is not like engineering where 1+1 is always equal to 2 but very subjective. This is why in America the Republicans want Obama not to fill the vacant position of a Supreme Court judge because they fear the judge he will appoint will look after the interest of the Democrats and are hoping they will win the presidential election where the new president will appoint a judge who will look after their interests. In Zambia a look at the dissenting judges’ surnames speaks volume as to why they dissented. Which constitution where these two learned judges reading?

    • If it was to throw the petition, it was supposed to be on friday, not after you yourselves agreed to add the says to the agreed 14 days, today you were only suppose to rule that E.C.L won clearly not to throw the petition naimwe, you go home and ask what to do,then advised wrongly on a simple clearly matter, this brings second thughts even to us PF carders, i am a PF carder and glad that we are the leading party but winning with this kind of Homework judgment makes me feel bad…..mwafunsa funsa first kuli ba nzelu banu koma ndimwe muli panchito, no dignity in our law chapwa bonse fye machakolwa!!!!

    • The petition legally expired on friday

      When making decisions over legal matters, make sure you base your decisions on the law and not fairness.

      The latter (fairness) is very important and it must always given first priority as long as it falls within the constitution and the law.

      Never be tempted to pursue fairness that causes you to break the law.

      The risk is this: when you violate the constitution in preference to fairness, should things go wrong as a result of your decisions, you are unexcusable.

      If you follow the constitution, God forbid that there be but, anything going wrong you will be covered by the constitution.

      Emotions are good, that is why God gave us. But regarding constitutional matters we cannot prefer emotions to upholding the constitution.

    • The Petitioner’s Lawyers were very dull and lacked direction in this case. I wonder what sort of lawyers are they. This was not a matter in which you waste time like they did. They have themselves to blame. Their client HH claimed to have overwhelming evidence and these Mushipe lawyers would have just gone into the main petition unlike what they did, wasting the whole 14 days on delaying to save the respondents with the summon and coming up with unnecessary preliminary issue which actually had no bearing on the main petition. For instance, what was Lungu’s stepping down had to do with their petition or even the court to have the custody of election materials.

    • This country is doomed, PF will ruthlessly rape the treasury and the economy, it wont be long before everyone including those who stole the votes start wishing that HH and GBM were in power.

      Lungu is visionless and we will all crush-land soon

    • Victory to division. We will never be the same as a country. Division and suspicion everywhere including the church. Today half the country will dance and drink while the other half is crying. Its tough. I hoped the court was going to bridge the gap.

    • 1.1
      I couldn’t have said it better myself! The right to be heard in a democracy is what holds it together, and not the wording of articles!

    • THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS- A VOTE AND BOOM!!! LAWYER WERE DIVIDED BUT DEMOCRACY PREVAILED IN COURT
      ======================================
      Good Riddance!
      The presidential election petition is out through the window! Done and dusted! Trashed with the contempt it deserves! Viva ECZ! Viva ECL!
      Now let us roll folks, this chapter is closed. But judges ought to be put under microscope. Any compromised lawyer needs to be weeded out. The independence of the three arms government at play! The Judiciary just ruled and the Executive in waiting will be ushered in to steer the country to greater heights. To those hurting like one Miyanda, NSM and Others, chill, we shall live to interact another day! Zambia is greater than y’all!

    • Democracy died.

      Lungu is mocking Democracy.

      Frpm the Post Newspaper, CLosure of independent Media to this predetmined conclusion, including statements from Chanda on Congratulatory messages from African dictators way before the Concourt had sat down, it is the death of democracy.

      I will NEVER trust a black man again

      Thanks

      BB2014

    • @ngolwa 1.8 its tough. But remember time is a healer. Let us be one because we are one Zambia one Nation, despite our different opinions. We must come out of this stronger than we went in.

      God Bless Mother Zambia

    • “I saw an opportunity and grabbed it” who said these words and what was the occasion?

      “If HH chooses the wrong running mate the wrath of God will be upon him ” who said these words and what was the occasion?

      “ELOI ELOI LAMASABACHATANI” who said these words and what was the occasion?

      Jesus looked up to heaven and said “IT IS FINISHED ”

      Amen my brothers and sisters…UPND may your soul rest in peace….

      NO NEED FOR POSTMORTEM…UPND DIED A NATURAL DEATH

      “Pupils dilated and fixed..no oculocephalic reflex…no response to command..and finally the patient has no spontaneous respiration and therefore I CERTIFY HIM DEAD”

      Edgar Lungu 5 more years

      I thank you

    • Teti fichitike! Nowhere in Africa can this happen! First he allowed the petition to go without being sworn in, the petitioners went to court, aleloleshafye, the judge exetended hearing beyond 14days, aleloleshafye, the court has dismissed the petition nafuti aleloleshafye?? Yangu!

    • THIS WAS A POINTLESS PETITION IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THROWN OUT ON ITS DAY OF INCEPTION. HOWEVER, THIS EXPOSES AND GOES TO CLEARLY SHOW HOW F00LISH AND SELF-CENTRED THE PETITIONERS ARE. THE PETITIONERS WERE NOTHING BUT SAVING THEMSELVES FROM THE UPND LENDORS AND DONNORS WHO WHERE PROMISED MINING RIGHTS AND OTHER BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN THE COUNTRY. THE PETITIONING OF THE ELECTION PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS WAS ALSO A DESPERATE MOVE BY HH AND GBM (UNDER 5 AND CHIDUMBO) TO BECAME PRESIDENT AND VICE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO RECOVER THEIR MONEY THROGH TENDERPRENEUERSHIP AS ALL THE COMPANIES FOR OTHERS WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN GIVEN ANY CHANCE TO WIN ANY GOVERNMENT TENDERS BUT THE TWO (HH AND GBM) BUSINESSES PLUS THE NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL COMPANIE THEY WERE GOING TO FORM UP IN THEIR…

    • …HAVE BEEN GIVEN ANY CHANCE TO WIN ANY GOVERNMENT TENDERS BUT THE TWO (HH AND GBM) BUSINESSES PLUS THE NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL COMPANIE THEY WERE GOING TO FORM UP IN THEIR RELATIVES NAMES. IN ADDITION, THIS SHOWS HOW WEAK AND UN PROFESSIONAL OUR LEGAL SYSTEMS, IN PARTICULAR CONCOURT SIDE, IS TO HAVE WASTED SUCH VITAL NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL TIME THROUGH SHERE WASTE OF TIME ON POINTLESS PETITION AND MORALE-LOSS BY THOSE WHO REALLY WISH TO DO THE BEST FOR THE COUNTRY. THIS !D!OCY SHOULDN’T BE REPEATED BY OUR LEGAL SYSTEM.

    • hh can start the petition process for 2021 NOW because he will lose again to Syambukulima. And choose smarter lawyers next time.

    • Still more fye the bottom line is that Hypnotised Hyena is just a bitter person! This is just to cover his shame of making a very ”good party” (atleast under Mazoka!) keep losing elections. He wants to make some hypnotised followers believe that ”well at least he put up a fight”. Gary Knombo please take up the mantle and let that calculator take the back seat, he is simply unsallable…it’s too much of losing mwee!

    • Stop hurting and move on. After all ni One Zambia, One Nation. I don’t expect ECL to attend to my problems directly but through his good leadership and sound policies. All will be fine. Lets stop politicking and get back to work. Youths ensure that ECL livens up the youth policy. Come on folks stop blogging to much and get to work.
      We shall live to politic another day. As for Kalusa and his cliques, identify the needs of the youth/women and work to minimise their jobless burdens as a supplement to Govt effort; who knows? You will also have where to point. HH has exposed some of the shortfalls of the electoral and judicial processes. Government should work to correct the anomalies period.

    • IN ANY CASE, A BIG CONGRATULATION ONCE AGAIN TO OUR PRESIDENT EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU, HIS VICE MA INONGE WINA, PF AND THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA WHO SAW ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT SENSE IN RE-ELECTING ECL AND MA INONGE WINA WHILE DUMPING ONCE AGAIN FOR THE 5TH TIME, HH (RIGHTLY KNOWN AS UNDER 5 AND HIS OINA VICE). THESE TWO ARE SIMPLY NOT FIT TO RULE ZAMBIA AS THEY ARE POLITICALLY, GOOD FOR NOTHING. CONGRATULATIONS ZAMBIANS. ECL AND INONGE WERE AND STILL ARE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR ZAMBIA. VIVA ALL. NOW LET’S START DEVELOPING OUR COUNTRY ON A SERIOUS NOTENOW THAT THESE TWO !D!OTS ARE NO LONGER THERE.

    • Seriously Unpd knew about 14 says Zambian let us move on and give Lungu ‘s time as a Zambian president and those who have to run from HH do it now so that we can start seeing progress, upnd start reorganizing for the next election but don’t bring HH again just a friendly advise.

    • @ Katondo Boys ….. your last part, ““Pupils dilated and fixed..no oculocephalic reflex…no response to command..and finally the patient has no spontaneous respiration and therefore I CERTIFY HIM DEAD”
      SOUNDS LIKE ZAMBIA AFTER 5 YEARS…
      Death of parties mean nothing because the keep moulding into each other and they are increasingly difficult to tell apart

    • We are all struggling to understand what was going on within the legal camp for UPND. According to them they had credible evidence which they never bothered to bring to the attention of the court. All we heard and saw were peripheral issues and not the main petition until the expiry of the 14 days. If on Friday morning they had presented one convincing evidence the case could have no doubt taken a different turn. Bushe did they have actual evidence at all or it was all speculation propelled by the Watchdog?

    • Cowards don’t win.Lungu has lost the battle.He refused to hand over power because he was a coward,hiding behind the military. HH is a winner because he has a free conscience ,his health will continue to florish while Lungu’s health will continue to deteriorate due to bad conscience.He will continue to receive bad luck till he dies a violent death.Those that are with him today they will run away leaving him a lone.The economy will be on its knees.HH will take a back sit organizing his resources and replenishing his health abroad,while in Zambia the economy will be giving Chikwanda a headace.HH is the winner because in one year Lungu will be so old soving the economic war.HH will leave and will still be UPND president until we the members say you can rest.For we shall allow to go for a…

    • I guess that someone visited the Judges over the weekend with a few brown envelopes stuffed with green backs. We all no that in Zambia anyone can be bought.

    • @ 1 The Chosen One,

      The word “SHAM” has been used, in the Zambian context, by a person who wishes to say,

      “Things have not gone my way”.

      This is because maturity is yet to come on majority of our people.

    • What really happens next is unknown. What most Zambians apparently missed in the last one hour immediately after the “Outcome” of the ConCourt was Mr. Lungu’s invocation of God in his “win”, namely, that it was God that justified today’s outcome. Who knows the mind of God but God? Why would Mr. Lungu add God to an evil that he and his PF party committed? I believe God will settle this case better than the cons of the Constitutional Court. Zambians keep at your knees. Your prayers will not go unanswered. For God can not be mocked.

    • You cannot disregard the constitution and still call yourself a Constitutional Court judge.

      The very reason why the Constitutional Court exists is the constitution.

      It would be like having a District Governor where there exists no District.

      The last person to fail to defend the Constitution is a Constitution Court Judge.

      A ConCourt judge is like the captain of a ship; they cannot jump until there remains no more life in the ship

      Thus, the ConCourt judges will defend the Constitution even when everyone else decides to killing it. The moment they decide to kill the constitution, there function ends.

    • @ 1.30 Bapongozi,

      Be sure that your prayers are in the will of God.

      Remember that God does not part with evil but righteousness.

      God will need be asked to partner with anyone whose hear is inclined to evil, evil thoughts, or jealous towards others.

      Otherwise such prayer, that is ill conceived, will end up backfiring.

      The best prayer you can make now is to pray for the success of ECL and bo Mama Inonge.

      If attempt to pray for their failure or any other I’ll prayer, then failure will not depart from you.

      Unless you are not a Christian, if you are you will understand what am saying.

    • @ 1.11 Mushota,

      I know you make submission like a robbot; you never respond to challenges posted against your submission.

      But look, the people pre-detrmined this outcome are the upndawyers.

      It is like they did not believe in their client case, that is why they wasted all the constitutionally provided time raiding other matters and left themselves with no time to deal with their presumed main case.

      TG his is because they knew that there was no case.

      When will UPND stop crying victim? Even when they mess up on their own, they want some to blame.

      It would have been understood if it was the other side that was raising the said preliminaries.

      But, now, honedtly, howvand why cry fawl.

    • These Judges are a shame, they should resign and not cheat Zambians. why should we live in such a country?? one would wonder what brings civil wars in countries. Such rubbish has left many Zambians hearts bleeding. It is disgusting and a shame.

      Now Zambians see how you will suffer. civil servants no salaries?? let the party and truly Dununa Reverse start.

    • For me who has never done law this is very confusing. Is the Constitutional court handing the case to an unknown court? If UPND are the ones who caused the problem were they made aware of the CC’s power ending at 14 days? Is the CC just scared of making a ruling? Or is the CC acting in the good interests of the country by this ruling?

    • Today’s sitting by the conCourt was illegal because it was the 17th day according to the constitution. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Mushota uli mututu ignorant and dull do you even know who a white man is? eimwe who are called cocoa nuts who think you are white inside whilst you are even darker than charcoal. From stealing the identity of Back Man as a truel Israelite, Slavery, Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism and the Economic plunder of Africa to mention a few of the evils. Iwe bakusambilishakofye icisungu walaima namabimbili kwati kwati nikapanga balompola kubwendo. I would rather have these Black people as leaders coz I know that one days Africa will be EMANCIPATED …… I Love Africa, I Love being Black and I will never trade my race for any other. Further, I know after living among-est them that they are by far the most corrupt only they give names to their corrupt acts. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL !!!!!! I LOVE ZAMBIA AND…

    • But why didn’t they just say so on Friday. How many minutes did it require? Congrats to PF who really got off the hook by ‘hook and crook’ of this inept court. I feel sorry that after winning by a mere 0.6%, PF has been done some injustice not proving that they really won these elections. Good luck though. let’s now talk the bed ridden economy. I will be the first one to congratulate government if it can stave off the impact of the pending IMF measures. Here goes Zed…from a frying pan into the fire!

  2. Wamona HH mwaiche, we told you that elections are won in the ballot box not in court or on the internet. Meanwhile you the UPND supporters can continue with your online popularity while we in the PF continue wiring you on the ground where real voters are. Losers!!

    • There is no need to rub it in. If you have won, just celebrate with your friends. You don’t need to involve the ones not celebrating.

    • Teti fichitike! Nowhere in Africa can this happen! First he allowed the petition to go without being sworn in, the petitioners went to court, aleloleshafye, the judge exetended hearing beyond 14days, aleloleshafye, the court has dismissed the petition nafuti aleloleshafye?? Yangu!

    • Ba saulosi, grow up and enjoy your rigged election. its Zambia, tomorrow another person will celebrate. cant wait for the next presidential By- election. it was sighted already that if Lungu does not take his friend along???? next will follow. life is too short every one woill go to the one room alone..

  5. HH & GBM: We have always said we need to move on guys! We have serious work to do now…Please do not waste our time any further! You win some and lose some in life. No hurt please…

  6. Thank you HH you have tried to save this country but EVIL has once again taken over.DARKNESS and LIGHT can never MIX.Good bya Evil Zambian politics and you will never hear again from us.all the best zambia under lungu.

    • So anything with is not HH is evil…Is UPND now a cult? I an so relieved that Zed not going to be rules by a cult. In any case I will have had no confidence in a chap who looses multiple times…no winning strategy. How can HH rule and move Zed forward if he looses so much… no matter what measures he puts in place. And he chooses GBM and confirmed GBV maniac for VP how did he even dream to win anything.

      If you UPND cult members are intelligent as you purport fire HH and GBM for being such loosers

    • its evil munene.wait and see what will happen in the next 5 years.you will eat shiiiti and drink jameson vodka every day because of unemployment

    • Twafuma kumanda,twafuma kumanda mukushika Dundumwezi wemwana ayeeeee twafuma kumanda mukushika Dundunmwezi…nala bunwa lelo!…nalakolwa ntantalikile nakung’anda kati labishi!!!!
      @ Thorn in the flesh, you have been a start through out this trying moment, big up to Saulos, B R Mumba, Big Yambayamba big up to y’all! NEZ, Buck Teeth whatever and Mushota mourn all you want, I don’t give a damn!

  10. Well done to PF. As for the under 5 party, please go the convention. You need new leaders who can win elections otherwise you will spend 50 years in opposition. Tuesday next week, watermelon party at Heroes stadium.

  11. Great victory for you Madam Crazy Judge. Great victory indeed for the forces of darkness. Congratulations!

  12. A Gentleman wins a thief steals and wont accept to be challenged. Edgar is a thief and right now his conscious is eating him and will eat him until his death. Because there is no peace to the wicked. Can he proudly stand up and say he has won when he has refused to be challenged? NEVER.

    • Constitution of Zambia, (Amendment) Act, 2016
      PART VIII
      JUDICIARY
      Judicial Authority, System of Courts and Independence
      118.
      (1) The judicial authority of the Republic derives from the people of Zambia and shall be exercised in a just manner and such exercise shall promote accountability…..

      (2) In exercising judicial authority, the courts shall be guided by the following principles:
      (a) justice shall be done to all…….
      ……..
      (e) justice shall be administered without undue regard to
      procedural technicalities; and
      (f) the values and principles of this Constitution shall be
      protected and promoted.

      Was this not “UNDUE REGARD TO PROCEDURAL TECHNICALITIES”?????

  16. HH SHOULD HAVE CONTACTED…

    Firstly, instead of spending time in church praying for the success of his petition, HH spent his time on twitter and face book until the very final day when the ref was about TO blow his whittle for FULL TIME.

    Secondly, who in Africa has accepted presidential election results when they are so close?

    Please LET HIM ask me, why am I in jail?

  17. Zambia is finished. Failed state. Ignorant people acting as judges employed by a dull lawyer kikikiki. Good luck bane

    • Sorry Nez you kept us company kikikikiki please don’t go we still need you to get the other side of the story…we don’t want this site to be like the Zambian Watchdog which has one sided comments for UPND…

    • Nez, just admit your failures. The Çhakolwa has defeated you. You should be worse than a Chakolwa. You claimed to be very superior to others but this loss should humble you because Zambians have spoken through the ballot. If you can not accept then you have to get used to it. Edgar is the president for the next 5 years

    • @NEZ

      Just as misinformed as your misinformed fellow UPND cadre, Muna Ndulo, about the defining feature of a state. As you lick your wounds following your loss, take time to read Reinhard Bendix’s book on Max Weber, an Intellectual Portrait. May be you will learn one thing or two about the defining feature of a modern state as put forward by the German political sociologist, Max Weber. There is no violence everywhere in Zambia as Muna Ndulo hallucinates all the way from Cornell. I just hope he is in a sound frame of mind out there.

    • @NEZ

      Nez is just as misinformed as his misinformed fellow UPND cadre, Muna Ndulo, about the defining feature of a state. As you lick your wounds following your loss, take time to read Reinhard Bendix’s book on Max Weber, an Intellectual Portrait. May be you will learn one thing or two about the defining feature of a modern state as put forward by the German political sociologist, Max Weber. There is no violence everywhere in Zambia as Muna Ndulo hallucinates all the way from Cornell. I just hope he is in a sound frame of mind out there.

    • iwe ka NEZ dumb head – -drink some chibwantu, eat some cow dung, relax, fart, fu,ck a cow and pray to your god hh . Do u now agree that ifintu ni lungu by hook or crook.

  18. While the judges of the constitutional court were still divided, the minority needed to be heard. How I wish the President elect did not make that statement that he was consulting his lawyers after the expiry of the 14 days. THis had a lot of bearing on the predictable outcome of the case. Our God is a God of second chances. This is the first time we have the constitutional court as a fast track to petitions but time will reveal so many things in due time.

    • Come to think of it, that five-some didn’t need to wait 48 hours to come announce the lapsing of the petition period. It should have been done the very Friday so that PF cadres could have used the weekend to celebrate and sadly do stupid things. Because if one critically looks at this, it’s like they went to be told what to do i.e. have two dissenting votes and three for just to hoodwink the populace.

      In any event what effect is the ruling itself because it was already time bad?

      And to think that this is the court vested with adjudicating matters scares the day lights out of those who are progressive in thinking.

  19. While the judges of the constitutional court were still divided, the minority needed to be heard. How I wish the President elect did not make that statement that he was consulting his lawyers after the expiry of the 14 days. THis had a lot of bearing on the predictable outcome of the case. Our God is a God of second chances. This is the first time we have the constitutional court as a fast track to petitions but time will reveal so many things in due time.

  21. HH SHOULD HAVE CONTACTED ME..

    Firstly, instead of spending time in church praying for the success of his petition, HH spent his time on twitter and face book until the very final day when the ref was about TO blow his whittle for FULL TIME.

    Secondly, who in Africa has accepted presidential election results when they are so close?

    Please LET HIM ask me, why am I in jail?

  22. Meanwhile I will be back later to come and console our friends the UPND cadres including the Supreme Leader HH himself once we get more details…

  23. Zambia is a young democracy. there is no perfect constitution world over. the perfection comes with usage and application on event along the democratic maturity. don’t blame judges or lawyers. a builder crafts his work according to prescription. lawyers are employs and represent the wisdom or mediocrity of their maters.
    you cannot fight lungu because he comes from the east. we are all the same in this country.

  25. Zambia is a young democracy. there is no perfect constitution world over. the perfection comes with usage and application on event along the democratic maturity. don’t blame judges or lawyers. a builder crafts his work according to prescription. lawyers are employed and represents the wisdom or mediocrity of their maters.
    you cannot fight lungu because he comes from the east. we are all the same in this country.

  26. Zambia is a young democracy. there is no perfect constitution world over. the perfection comes with usage and application on event along the democratic maturity. don’t blame judges or lawyers. a builder crafts his work according to prescription. lawyers are employed and represents the wisdom or mediocrity of their masters.
    you cannot fight lungu because he comes from the east. we are all the same in this country.

  27. ati i saw the petition flopping that is why i took the opportunity and used it, u celebrated too early HH.hope now you will not start to accuse the concourt jurdges of being biased when they gave u a long rope to hung yourself

  28. Let the country now get up and start working again. Those who do not love this country like HH and GBM can hang. Thanks to Mulonda, mungeni mulenga and sitali for coming back to your senses. Let the pompous egocentric HH go to UTH with high BP and stroke. Aka ka chi,kal,a ka HH kala yumfwa. The way he insulted the court on Friday, Boma ni Boma. HH you have to retire in national interest as well as some sloppy judges like Hilda Chibomba. Zambia does not id1ots like HH. I rest my case, Time to work now starts guys, the Lungu, Wina, Kambwili A team aluta continua. One Zambia One Nation.

  29. HH, your pride and geocentric nature has brought you down. They say PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL. Your personal agenda supported by your tribal minions has collapsed. HH can have some basic management skills like many Zambians but far away from being a leader. His wealth is incidental, its tenderpreneurship, it’s not special. His vision is hollow as evidenced by his failure to articulate his so called 10 points manifesto. Let Zambia move on without him, in 2021 we will look for a better successor for President Lungu.

  30. Listen HH and GBM and listen carefully you’re successful businessmen and you can’t have it all please go on with your lives this is not the end of your world . The people spoke you didn’t listen and now the courts have spoken and I expect you to listen. For southerners and there Chiefs please do the same. Next time don’t count the chicks before they arch. For the Post pay your taxes so that you come back on the platform. For muvi tv you need to behave

  32. That’s why law is and always will remain an art, though on paper, a lot of subjectivity prevails when real life situations come up, leading the judges to start voting for or against hearing the petition. someone tell me, what was supposed to be done and was not done, leading the judges themselves to vote on the way forward?????

    we ought to be serious with individual goals in life other than depend on a whole lot of bunches of other people to determine our direction….. the struggle continues……

  35. Well, the writing was on the wall and I’m sorry to say that I told you so. I did say we had two choices:

    1) dismiss the case as the time has elapsed
    2) Explain to the Zambian people under which jurisdiction the extension was done.

    Game over, now let’s get back to work.

  37. Whether right or wrong, these are lessons to us as a country. The good part is that we have a president lets move on…
    If UPND is very serious about winning an election, let them forget about the voters for now. Please work on the processes and procedures at ECZ and its independence from GRZ’s interference before, during and after elections. Catch you….

  38. I take my hat off to the judges especially those who were brave enough to recognize that the constitution is above all period you have demonstrated that no one is above the law. Am just worried about those who were willing to throw their oath of office to defend and protect the constitution how are we to trust them. Bravo concourt viva Zambia.

  39. Even with a FULL BENCH UPND is WIRED….HH’s lawyers demanded full a full bench and they still lose…DONE and DUSTED! Sorry!

  40. I am glad the Con Court did not fall for that old trick HH/GBM lawyers used , of “walking out on their clients” , so that they could force an adjournment. That really made me angry. They didn’t plan their “attack” properly, but should have gone directly “for jugular” from the first day, instead of dilly-darling and wasting time. You don’t play such childish games with the highest game in the land because beyond that court, there is no other appeal court. Good bye, HH, and don’t forget to ask for a refund from hose dull lawyers you have probably paid millions, and they are now smiling all the way to the bank. I hope they use some of that money to apply for night school at Professor Mvunga’s Law School.

  41. No WITNESSES allowed

    No EVIDENCE allowed

    No enough TIME allowed

    No Judgement Made

    Incompetence at it’s best. How much in allowances have they been paid besides the K13Million?

    • Kindly pull yourself together; Come on move on, get a life. Bitter pills! One Zambia, One Nation. Stuff happens!
      Bitterness will kill y’all! Spare your life no need to stress!

    • Madala the UPND told the whole world they had convincing evidence. We are surprised they decided to dwell on insignificant matters. They were busy talking about the speaker taking over ,custody of ballot papers and extension of the 14 days period instead of dwelling on the main petition .As one blogger has put it… they had an opportunity to go for the jugular but…..they lacked tact ….and may be just maybe there was no evidence after all..

    • Enough time was allowed. Only that the petitioners spent it all on looking for pick-pockets instead of concentrating on looking for murderers.

  43. I still want to know how much evidence the petitioners had. I will do some investigations and produce a documentary on this petition but will only release it after this presidential term…

    • @ Vizungu

      This chap called HH did not have any evidence. He behave in this manner because after the loss, he suffered a dysfunctional condition called delusioniac. The guy had entered state house and this time his mind can not comprehend the status quo. He is now having nightmare because he was not honest with himself. The dosage of lies he administered to himself has wobbled his brain causing soft tissue injuries. What he needs now is a very good nurse and I am sure Mutinta will diligently execute that role.

      With GBV he now has what we used to call “shick” He now has a mobile toilet because the shock has liquefied the contents of his belly. He is actually putting on dippers.

  45. Water melon politics must be discouraged at ALL COST. Learn to wear your true party regalia otherwise things will backfire.

  47. The judiciary is under siege yet the aggressors and victims are the politicians ,Judges and the poor citizens. Sadly to the public the concourt is a let down.

    • Kindly pull yourself together; Comeon move on, get a life. Bitter pills! There is and will always be life after this.

  48. The losers here are the zambians in that after more than 50 years of independence a higher court fails to distinguish itself as first amongs the equals. What is justice if you can’t be heard? It’s not HH or GBM who have been denied this right but the 1.7m? Zambians who voted for UPND and their alliance. Those who are celebrating should ask themselves what is bigger between zambia and PF. We should advocate for strong institutions that can resist political pressure because politicians and parties come and go but zambia shall remain. Lastly all the judges on the concourt should resign for failing to acquit themselves. We should have listened to Sangwa when he warned that none of them were qualified to sit on that bench and many others who opposed this new constitution. I salute you all…

    • @mary ..”It’s not HH or GBM who have been denied this right but the 1.7m?”

      Equally the other 1.8m who voted for ECL/Wina would have been denied the same sh!t you talking about

    • Constitution of Zambia, (Amendment) Act, 2016
      PART VIII
      JUDICIARY
      Judicial Authority, System of Courts and Independence
      118. (1) The judicial authority of the Republic derives from the people of Zambia and shall be exercised in a just manner and such exercise shall promote accountability.
      (2) In exercising judicial authority, the courts shall be guided by the following principles:
      (a) justice shall be done to all, without discrimination;
      (b) justice shall not be delayed;
      (c) adequate compensation shall be awarded, where payable;
      (d) alternative forms of dispute resolution, including traditional
      dispute resolution mechanisms, shall be promoted,
      subject to clause (3);
      (e) justice shall be administered without undue regard to
      procedural technicalities; and
      (f) the values and…

  49. How can a whole court of supposedly intelligent men of an integrity of some sort, fail lamentably to interpret the Constitution? Or was this POLITICAL decision ‘pre-ordained’? After a petition has been submitted it will be heard in 14 days – meaning the court is mandated to START hearing it. It doesn’t mean to be concluded in 14 days! Its absurd to expect to sift through mountains of evidence in a couple of days, let alone hours. This court has simply refused to work. Justice goes down the drain again!

    • Immediately you suspect foul play, you move in, collect evidence and preserve it through the chain of evidence framework. There you go, it was a learning process for the petitioned, petitioners, Concourt and the the public.
      Kindly pull yourself together; Come on move on, get a life. One Zambia, One Nation. Stuff happens!

    • If you receive a parking fine in the UK and you have 14 days to appeal do you think you stand a chance to appeal if the 14 days have elapsed? The questions we should be asking are that if the petitioner had overwhelming evidence as they put it, why was it such a comedy of errors when submitting and presenting this evidence? the truth is, they concentrated on disrupting the swearing in ceremony so much so with a hope of creating a political vacuum in the country. HH now needs to take responsibility and step aside and let someone else lead the party.

    • No petition will ever succeed in Zambia again. The formula –

      1. Avoid getting summonses – 3 days gone
      2. Challenge all the submissions by the petioners – 7 days gone
      3. Make sure the Judges have good weekends – 4 days gone

      Total – 14 days………

      HEARING the case – NEVER!

      EVIDENCE? what for?

  52. We are free at last! The sun will still rise from the east tomorrow – there won’t be any armagedon or whatever you will choose to call it. At long last I can head for Nakonde to order beans and rice to supply to soweto and earn a living for my family. The tension created by Nevers and friends caused us alot of losses. Congrats ECL for being calm during a very trying moment. The trouble makers should thank God it wasn’t Super Ken in power, he could have kicked your butts and called you STUP1D 1DIOTS. To UPND, I wish you luck as you press the button of self-destruction; you have enough dynamite in those bemba rejects we cursed you with

  54. Interesting indeed. Zambia gone to the dogs. Though Thieves have triumphed, Zambia is under a curse. Mark my words. Edgar Lungu will be remembered as the worst President and dictator . His reign shall be marked will regret.

    • Kindly pull yourself together; Come on move on, get a life. Bitter pills! One Zambia, One Nation. Stuff happens!
      No curse here! ECL is one of the most resolute leaders Zambia has ever witnessed.

    • @Nitikiifi You have used the term “mark my words several times” can you read the future? I may not like Edgar Chagwa Lungu, but he is my President for now. Zambia is a constitutional democracy so I should be prepared to accept when my preferred candidate is not chosen as President.

      Lets get our new Govt, Our MPs, Councilors etc to work.

      God Bless Mother Zambia

    • No matter how much you insult,disrespect,discourage,curse and cry HH won’t and will never rule Zambia not a Tonga but HH. He is not a good man going by his nature not a tonga nature but his and only his foolish attitude towards his fellow Zambians. He has even made you guys in UPND feel like he is the only man who can Save Zambia. Come out of it you’re far from it.

    • thorn in the flesh… its you who is supposed to get a life cause there is nothing left for the poor people in this nation.. the rich will continue enjoying and the poor will continue in poverty

    • Hectel whatever you call your ar.se! Is it because Thron in the flesh has a divergent view and allegiance from yours that you think he’s pulling you down together with the nation? No wonder he is asking you to get a life and move on..time for Politics is done and dusted ifwe pa Teusday niku HILOZI stadium bakaamba! Dununa Reverse! Or by the way next time as a party learn to be original not fyakula lolela abanenu ati bembe nyimbo, then imwe mwatoba ka remix ati dununa forward, mwamona mwapitilila nafuti yaba, what a group of clowns!

    • THE POOR SHALL ALWAYS BE AMONG YOU.
      @ hectle
      It is wishful thinking to suggest that HH was going to get rid of all the poverty or just to do any better in reducing the poverty levels in the country. Whereas it is true that something ought to be done about it, it is not true that the current Govt is not doing anything at all at all. To use the poor as the ladder to the presidency is the waste kind of human treatment.
      If it is true that the majority of the Zambians are poor, well, guess what? ECL got the majority votes in effect suggesting that the poor chose ECL to do something about their poverty. Under my watch, its a 5year tenure.

  56. Most of you on this platform are just bluffing. The UPND have not lost this petition. The State ensued that the petition should not be heard at ALL cost, because they were fearing a re-run which they thought might disadvantage them. The evidence of rigging is so overwhelming! PF did not get the required 50 + 1. Whether you like it or not, this is the fact. Anyway, Jehovah is a God of Justice. Only time will tell. To all PF supporters – just celebrate your victory without mocking your perceived losers. To the UPND – It is well.

    • Kindly pull yourself together; Come on move on, get a life. Bitter pills! One Zambia, One Nation. Stuff happens!
      Bitterness will kill y’all! We need you please spare your life; no need to stress!

    • Thorn in the flesh – I am not stressing at all. I actually pity ECL. If the PF were 100% sure of their victory, they should have allowed the UPND to present their case. Their panic mode was visible. Anyway, hunger and poverty knows no tribe. Only time will tell. Good luck ba PF.

    • Yes, indeed. Game over. Enjoy your popcorn. I wish you a splendid and prosperous decade!

  58. No genuine and peace loving citizen would like to have such an unnecessary standoff. UPND together with their lawyers had all the time but squandered it and the failed to put together their case and now they have been holding the nation at ransom. Who are they??? This is just the beginning and the end of UPND, let another party emerge and displace UPND as a major opposition party so that we can have meaningful opposition in parliament. God bless Zambia!

    • @James

      I disagree. The failure of UPND to prosecute their petition has given ECL and PF an advantage and an opportunity for UPND to scan their managerial infrastructure. Either the Republican or Democrat candidate will fall in November, but those parties like the church will march on. So UPND stays and we the loyal members stay. We may change leadership though. But we shall stay in UPND…today…tomorrow and if we are alive…even in 2709 and even year 6500.

      UPND ile che!!! You guys you rock….stay in UPND….don’t run to ba PF. Have character like Godfrey Miyanda…he never changes party though he be abandoned by all….

  59. The tragedy of this matter is not the UPND exercising their right to challenge injustice. It is the ignorance, pettiness, refusal to uphold processes and the rule of law by most Zambians – including purchased lawyers and judges wallowing in the decadence of PF political primitiveness. The tragedy is the readiness of gullible Zambians, devoid of principles, analysis, objectivity or broadness of mind to swallow hook, line and sinker the diatribes and machinations of the PF regime for a few pieces of silver or unsustainable crumbs from Lungu’s banquet table. The tragedy is the myopia – inability to see that perpetuating PF rule on irrational uninformed prejudices about other people who are equally entitled to seek a role in Zambia’s destiny on a level playing field, will be the undoing of…

  61. ZAMBIA has entered a DARK CHAPTER, politically, socially & economically.
    Brace yourselves bane. Be steadfast.
    Pray long, Fast alot. Ala mukose.

    Good luck, you may need it.

    Bye bye

  62. Very confusing indeed! I thought that panel of judges is supposed to arrive at the same decision. Justices Chibomba and Munalula are women of integrity.These two really wanted justice to be delivered. The rest should resign on moral grounds. Justice has not been delivered. If ECL was duly elected by the Zambian people the concourt should have said so AFTER HEARING ALL THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE.I had some confidence in the concourt but from today NEVER again. They had enough time to hear from UPND on Friday but threw out everything. The only people who should remain in the concourt are the two women who agreed to proceed with the hearing.This simply shows that a sitting President in Zambia is above the law.

    • There was no evidence. Imagine HH asking for evidence from ZNBC (the organisation he loathed) and the accused ECZ. Strange and confusing indeed. I am equally appalled.

    • Independent observer, it is actually the two judges who wanted the proceedings to continue who should resign so that they are no longer part of the rotten system.It is very clear that the concourt never sat on weekends to make it exactly 14days.It could have been very interesting to hear what evidence the UPND claimed they have. Us the public have been denied that opportunity. In addition without the private media we do not have balanced information.This is justice denied, without any slightest doubt. It is very sad what has befallen our country.We have a lot of intermarriages in this country.We have always been one Zambia one nation. But when it comes to elections wako ni wako.

    • Margaret Munalula is not a woman of integrity or impartial as yiou suggest, She was Fred Mmembe’s girl friend some years back. So she is somehow linked to he cartel.

  63. Loud and clear but kindly pull yourself together; Come on move on, get a life. Bitter pills! One Zambia, One Nation. Stuff happens! ECL won!
    Bitterness will kill y’all! We need you please spare your life; no need to stress!

  65. Why dribble for 90 minutes and never kick the ball into the net? At least even OWN GOAL would have counted as one. I feel sorry for HH and his mate GBM for the money unproductively paid upfront to the lawyers. This is a PRACTICAL lesson for the many who were hired by the UPND in the hope of creating a force but alas.

  66. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU MY DEAR PRESIDENT E.L. CHAGWA LUNGU.LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT AND LONG LIVE THE PF TEAM AND THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA

  68. NOW THAT THE COURT PROCEEDING IS OVER ON THE H.H AND GBM PETITION I REQUEST LAZ AND THE HIGH COURT TO CHARGE MARTHA MUSHIPE FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT .HOW CAN A LAWYER SHOUT ABUSE AT A JUDGE AND THAT ALSO IN COURT.LAZ SHOULD REVOKE HER PRATICE LICENCE AND THIS TIME FOR GOOD

  69. We, this day, bid farewell to sanity and welcome, with open hands, an incurable strain of insanity.

  70. Let’s wait and see. The just shall be justified. For sure Edgar Lungu shall reap heavily you can not be a thief through and through. Stolen victory in broad day light. The people that voted for HH are crying and the almighty God who is sovereign has heard those cries. You shall rule but not win. Your end will be great punishment than your joy today. Whatever you touch shall crumble.

  72. HH believed market evidence front Gbm, the type where we suspect people talking together of commuting adultery without physical proof. That’s the way Gbm operates ….innuendoes and mere suspicions.

  73. It’s not HH whom they have deathly dealt a death blow. It’s our democracy which they have slaughtered in broad day light. Repay them, Oh God of Heaven, repay them handsomely for their craftiness and uncanny ingenuity.

  74. But look at the judges, all lazy and fat looking like concubines. These people have brought destruction on Zambia. Liars and crooks

  76. The Concourt and not PF or UPND has failed the people of Zambia. They did not take control of the process. They had an opportunity to test the Constitution and were terrified to swim in those waters because they were incapable of making decisions. We may have to wait for another five years, if at all, to have the contentious provisions interpreted. My advise, get proper Judges appointed to the Court, Mumba Malia, (Matibini himself would have been an excellent Judge), Mutuna. John Sangwa would definitely have been a bonus but I don’t think he’d want to associate with the likes of Anne Sitali and Mugeni Mulenga.

  77. This where Democracy lets people down because the real winners never get to rule. Democracy lets the cunning and unworthy bas.tards rule by all forms tricks!! What is our alternative now? We need to stand up against this non.se.nse!! Let us just try war! I don’t think Zambia has soldiers that can wage a relentless war! Let us go guys!!

  78. So this what you get when you appoint compromised women!! I wont cry the unbeloved country because this is NOT the end. There is still war to come!!

  79. The end of a Dirty Affair! This UPND interest group should be rubbed out of Zambia’s history. Perhaps the USA can send us the file on HOFFER, the trade union guy that got under the nails of the gov’t of the day so bad that their resolution to the trouble he caused them is still a great unconfirmed mystery today. Some are still searching the truth……..help us USA please!!!

    HH and his band of merry men need to stop embarrassing themselves and get out of from under Zambia’s collective hat. We have development on our target, Peace and unity is our first job. WELL DONE HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT LUNGU! Saul is on his way to hell right now!! GOD BLESS ZAMBIA, AND OUR PRECIOUS LUNGU!!!

  80. Tragic as it was, it gave us good entertainment although with costs to the country. We wait for another one in five years

  81. Oh Lord, our God, justice remains your prerogative. It belongs to you; yours, not any man’s, to execute; yours, not any earthly court to prescribe. Henceforth, you are our only refuge. Let the Constitutional Court, the ECZ and the PF enjoy their moment of triumph. They deserve it. We would have loved to see justice in our courts. We would have rejoiced to see democracy prevail. But that would have been the exception, wouldn’t it? In the end, we got what we would have gotten in the first place. Notwithstanding, Oh God, we marvel at their audacity to ask us to go to the polls, stand there in long lines; each of us waiting his or her turn to cast a vote, a vote that would never get counted. Why, Oh Lord, did they have to do that to us??????????????????????????????

  82. The election was won and lost on August 11. The petition was lost when HH chose to have the likes of Martha Mushipe as his legal counsel.

  84. UPND – THIS SURE IS AN EYEOPENER- ITS NOT THE PARTY PEOPLE CANT STAND BUT ITS LEADERS ESPECIALLY BRINGING IN THE DEFECTS OF PF WAS A MAJOR DRAWBACK AND HAS COST YOU LEADERSHIP.
    GARY NKOMBO, MAZOKA’S SON, BRADFORD MACHILA PLEASE YOU ARE NEEDED IN ITS TOP LEADERSHIP
    TIME TO RE-STRATEGISE BASA

  85. Bitter sweet stolen victory for lungu and PF.
    the truth is they lost the elections as more than 50 % of the population rejected them.

    They still needed to abuse public funds and state machinary to campain and use violence and intimidation to shut down and lock up up opponents to atain this bitter sweet stolen victory.

    Without the above lungu would never had stood a chance.

    The only good to come of this is the IMF is coming and PF have no one else to blame if zambia suffers.

    But again theives don’t care about the suffering of others.

    • Well! lets wait and see! But don’t bang your head too much. You are young and energetic- we need you. The country is just as undeveloped as most of our homes. Let’s remove the specks from our own eyes before we demand for the removal of plank in Government(not in anyway supporting public affair mismanagement). Secondly, that’s what happens when you run with the incumbent, live with it ala. UPND would have gone the IMF route too. Tell me if you have never stolen before and be the first to throw that stone. The point is, work to strengthen government institutions that are charged with the mandate of beyond reasonable doubt prosecuting the bad guys and putting them behind bars.

  86. By December 2016, the UPND will be fragmented into three factions:
    1. The HH loyalists
    2. The GBM supporters
    3. The Southerners who feel only another Tonga should take over from HH
    Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Watch this space!!!

  87. Just reading the Post of 8 February 2014 when I a long letter accusing HH of tribalism. So I asked myself what has changed for these to become bedfellows.

  88. Its similar to a situation where two people are hit by two different cars. One dead man is a Lawyer and another is a thief… how do you identify the two.

    …..car skid marks on a thief and non on a lawyer

  89. Well done Constitutional Court for redeeming yourselves from last Friday’s decision to allow extension of time on a case which is restricted with time. Surely today’s decision reached itself last Friday at 23 59 hours when the petitioners requested for extension of time to look for new lawyers when the court should have thrown out the petition. Any verdict which was going to be passed after the deadline would have been voidable by either party because the extension is ultra-vires. In reality PF should have proceeded with the inauguration process because whether they lost or won the case, they would not have been bound by the verdict.

  90. Which court throws out a petition without hearing the evidence? The court where Lungu appointed some of the judges, like that fat ambassador who have all his relatives in the foreign service now thanks to Lungu. Democracy is dead and the ConCourt killed it.

  91. HOW TO LOSE AN ELECTION PETITION IN TEN EASY STEPS
    1. Waste 3 days by failing to serve papers on all the defendants
    2. Waste another 4 days by failing to ask the court to sit on weekends
    3. Raise irrelevant preliminary issues to waste even more days
    4. File a very fat petition with zillions of grounds and witnesses
    5. Try to amend the petition out of the statutory 7 days period
    6. Fail to focus on the main issues
    7. Go on a few speculative fishing expeditions
    8. Ignore the role of careful strategy and planning for the worst case scenario
    9. Fail to anticipate the moves your opponents will make
    10. Become reactive instead of proactive
    Blame Edgar Lungu

  92. Now this is what they call an anti-climax. Anyway what is done is done, and at the end of the day,life has to go on. We need to be level headed as we plan to meet the IMF. Time for swallowing real bitter pills has arrived. Brace yourselves bane, because there will be casualties. Believe that.!

    • Hell No! HH needs to retire period! Under his watch, UPND has reduced the number of MPs and he has lost elections 5 times without practicising any internal democracy in the party. He is also a man devoid of any principles but only driven by a psychopathic desire to be president of Zambia. He has always been unsuitable for the top job and that will not change in 2021.

  94. IMF no money wasting. No minister of Religion fimo, fimo. No musician on party splees. No subsidies on electricity & fuel, no DCs, all PS travel economy & one trip per year. No first lady & presidential slash funds. No blotted civil service. Mukose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Take it easy, you’re working yourself out for no reason. That money won’t be coming from your dad’s pocket.

  95. Ok, zambians, u really, really love to talk talk talk. Its o ova now. Others will now start eating. The others its another 5 yrs in opposition. So the rest of u on this blog, get back to yo lives. Or get a life. Chapwa!!!

  96. IF LUNGU WON GENUINELY, LET US CONGRATULATE HIM AND SUPPORT HIM AS WE FORGE AHEAD AS A NATION. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE IS NO NEED TO TELL HH TO GO TO HELL, CALL HIM DULL WHEN IN ACTUAL SENSE THE GUY IS FAR BETTER THAN MOST OF U WHO ARE CALLING HIM NAMES. HH PUT UP A GOOD FIGHT AND IF WE REALLY MEAN WELL FOR OUR DEMOCRACY, LET US CONGRATULATE THE GUY AS WELL. HATE IS POISON BUT THE GOOD THING WITH THIS POISON IS THAT, IT KILLS ONLY THE MANUFACTURER

    • @98 flag JAY JAY LOW
      “Reading the unwritten story on the faces of those judges?” How I wish you were just being sarcastic, as usual. No, you are not. This is real. How painful! It’s the reason you are ‘low;’ if I may add: very low.

  100. Oh Lord, our God, our petition is to you, and not to the Constitutional Court. We know you will not toss and throw our it away the way the Constitutional Court did HH’s. We know you have the mandate; the Constitutional Court devoid of one. We know you have the time, you are eternal; the Constitutional Court’s expired.

    See how apt they are to mock us, Oh Thou our God? See how quick they are to pounce on us and trample on our dignity? It’s as though we have suddenly become their prey. See how they ridicule us, Oh thou, Our God?

    It was the promise of democracy that had given us hope. Hard luck, the pendulum has swung, back to pre-1991. How else, Oh Thou our God, may we define this to be democracy? What kind is it? Why should we register to vote next time? Why should we vote…

    • Well son!
      I have given you all you need for you survival on earth. Everything comes from the ground not from above. If it were from above, you would be seeing Dollaz, Poundz and Kwachaz rain like the kapondos sing “LET IT RAIN.
      Son, all my Gold, Copper and all form lucrative spectacles of metal I have engraved in your mother earth. Fruit and grain or 100% of your food and water comes from your mother earth. Toil my son Toil and remember to consider my servants -ministers of the good news (gospel), behold the world is mine and all that is in it ; I hope you have dominion on earth in your personal capacity Meimatungu and lest I forget, give to Caesar what is Caesar’s.

  103. Laywers walk out friday and the come back this morning Jokers – anso this one the will leave to remember for the rest of their lives

  104. ZAMBIA AT PLAY GROUND. GO AHEAD BUT ITS UNFAIR FOR FAILING TO HEAR THE CONTENT OF THE PETITION AND NOWONDER WE SAW THE CON-COURT NOT GRABBING THE POWERS FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATIONAL SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY.

    MY APPEAL TO ALL OF US IS THAT WE ARE FRUSTRATED BUT NEVER DEFEATED. IT IS LUNGU WHO APPOINTED THOSE JUDGES AND TODAY THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE DEFENDED HIM ON WRONGS CREATED. NO ONE WILL EVER AGREE TO SAY FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS AND JUDICIARY.
    I HAVE COME TO HATE ALL THE JUDICIARY OF ZAMBIA. I WILL NEVER EVER LOVE ZAMBIAN LEADERS ESPECIALLY PEOPLE FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA

    WE WILL GO AHEAD WITH OUR BAROTSELAND DO OR DIE. VIVA BAROTSE

  105. If you educated, rich, Christian and a good man do not join politics. It’s a dirty game. That’s where failures go to and take advantage of the rest of the citizens. Guys read what the bloggers are saying. Utter nosense may be including my comment. As a country we still very far from development. Building houses and buying second hand cars from Japan and insulting people with real investment. As for HH and GBM just say good bye to politics. Those who wanted to develop the nation with unreservedly are all 3 at embassy park. Those who still alive are all easterners.

    • Son!
      We have not forsaken the two political/business gentlemen from our lives. They still remain important and viable citizens of this beloved country. We have just decided to give ECL another mandate saying, we gave you 1 year and you have brought us thus far. Lets see what you can give us in 5 years. He will not be president forever no. If HH and GBM are patriotic enough and knowing that they garnered 1.7Million plus voters, they should stick around and lavish their hard earned cash bringing vehicle assembly plants and huge manufacturing plants across all MF-Zones so the Zambian youths including you can get a job. We will be alive to that fact and respond in kind. What does it profit a man to go hiding on account of losing an election. Whereas they can manage business, they can’t…

    • … preside over national affairs going by the 1.8Million plus majority voters through a democratic dispensation.

    • @105.1 Thorn in the flesh
      Your rationale not withstanding, the hand of democracy ought not be restrained who it gives and who it doesn’t. In this case, it got chopped-off for giving the wrong person; wrong as per our rationale.

  106. People go to wikipedia and read Kenyatta petition, it was concluded in 15 days. HH had no rigging evidence, his best shot was to create a crisis. That is why his lawyers wasted time on pointless petitions. On the last day, HH and his lawyers played a well calculated move. HH said he would not accept defeat.

  107. It is Zambians who will remember because economic hardship for the ordinary unemployed and poorly paid Zambian worker in the current high priced environment is knocking at the door

    • We shall not dwell so much on that now. Let’s see if your delusional wish shall come to pass. Do you even know what it takes to manage the country’s affairs?

  108. Leadership is about wisdom. Please read the history of Sebitwane the Makalolo King who united the then Makololo empire following his conquest of some parts of Western and Southern Zambia. Sebitwane considered everyone as being equal including the conquered tribes. When he arbitrated, he ensured fairness to everyone. He died following a fall on David Livingstone’s horse. His Son Sekeletu, took over and he was cruel, subjugating the conquered tribes to humiliation while playing them against each other. The end result was that when Sipopa rebelled the Kingdom crumbled. Lets learn from history to prepare a better future for our beloved country.

  110. I find it funny that people can laugh at a rich man when they themselves are struggling to make ends meet because of the reckless Government we have in place. Its really strange especially that people on this site are well aware of the fact that we are facing a deficit due to lack of planning among many reasons. A bloated cabinet, lawlessness at the councils and bus stops. I ask myself “do we live in the same country?” i fail to understand how people are unable to see the hunger an poverty that I see everyday. Its a shame that even the knowledgeable get carried away with dununa reverse. Celebrating for ECL who has his future taken care of meanwhile you are failing to send your children to school. May God open our blind eyes

    • May you be freed from the spirit of hate, jealousy and envy. Do you know what it takes to rule a nation. Don’t be used by the evil one. May God open your eyes too! See how Zambia will develop in the next five years of capable leadership.

  111. All genuine Zambians should congratulate EL even if you feel disappointed. The greatest lesson from this petition is not for HH has many may think. What this petition has exposed is the competence levels of our lawyers in this nation. Of course not every lawyer but their profession representatives have dented their image. Reason is simple, they failed to provide leadership in the petition process. Even if UPND wanted to keep bringing new issues it was the responsibility of the bench to put a stop to that and have the hearing begin. Also the weekends were wasted by the court not UPND. What these judges have done is to give UPND a platform to be saying their lawyers never argued the case or the case was closed without any hearing.

    • If HH has overwhelming evidence that he won the last election, there is no reason he can not publish that evidence outside the jurisdiction of the court.

  112. Zambians expected justice but what they got was a political judgement hatched possibly at Mfuwe by a once disqualified lawyer .To start with the judges made fools of themselves by departing from their own ruling they made on Friday . Speaking from the moral and ethical standpoints , Judge Sitali should have stepped aside because of her direct and indirect undeniable links to the PF government from her husband’s road construction businesses.
    For those jobless accountants and engineers look beyond your noses . JK’s wife has got a job at Zesco because her husband’s sang Dununa reverse and you are still parasites on someone after spending years over twelve years behind the desk.

  113. Zambians expected justice but what they got was a political judgement hatched possibly at Mfuwe by a once disqualified lawyer .To start with the judges made fools of themselves by departing from their own ruling they made on Friday . Speaking from the moral and ethical standpoints , Judge Sitali should have stepped aside because of her direct and indirect undeniable links to the PF government from her husband’s road construction businesses.
    For those jobless accountants and engineers look beyond your noses . JK’s wife has got a job at Zesco because her husband sang Dununa reverse and you are still parasites on someone after spending over twelve years behind the desk.

  115. News update, any more desperate mocking press releases from HH? His reaction please. Expect he is rolling about the floor crying, oooooooh mummy, mummy…..

  116. Some people supporting PF who live in the diaspora have not visited Zambia for many years. Travel to your country and see for yourselves then talk. Poverty in Zambia is shocking and simply scandalous. Unemployment is allover the country. The majority of children don’t have enough food and are stunted while politicians are sending their children abroad and driving expensive cars around. Go to what used to be the UTH. It’s a mortuary. People sleep on floors and the stench is unbearable while politicians and their relatives are sent abroad for treatment and you say things are okay. All major organs of law and order have collapsed under the yoke of corruption and that includes the courts. zambians have been conditioned to believe that poverty is normal because thats what the majority have…

    • And somehow HH and GBV were going to make a big difference? Have you actually heard those two speak? How is GBV being vp going to improve the lot of poor women who face violent from their husbands? According to the Watchdog, GBV was involved in grand corruption when defence minister, is he really the kind of person who can make any difference to the levels of poverty in Zambia? Up to now, HH has failed to clearly document how he accumulated his vast wealth and the fact that he decided to side with the likes of GBV, Scott, Miles Sampa, Membe and Masebo all of whom have at one point insulted Tonga people shows just what an unprincipled and opportunistic character he is.

  117. grown up in. Zambia has lost 30 years of development and it’s going to be worse leading into civil strife in the near future. The majority of people in zambia are not educated and have never held formal jobs. They are simply Street people with no culture and moral fibre. Unfortunately these are the majority voters who are manipulated by corupt and greedy politicians at the cost of chibuku. Zambia now is a candidate for a failed state. Lets brace ourselves and pray for our country as we enjoy the laxury of living in the developed world.

  118. What really happens next is unknown. What most Zambians apparently missed in the last one hour immediately after the “Outcome” of the ConCourt was Mr. Lungu’s invocation of God in his “win”, namely, that it was God that justified today’s outcome. Who knows the mind of God? Why would Mr. Lungu add God to an evil that he and his PF party committed? I believe God will settle this case better than the cons of the Constitutional Court. Zambians keep at your knees. Your prayers will not go unanswered. For God can not be mocked.

  119. The reality of the situation is that we don’t know who actually won those elections and we may never know because there were no court proceedings that took place as there was no hearing, no trial, no cross-examination,no witnesses,no defence and eventually no judgement was passed. The full bench agreed last Friday to continue with the proceedings but what happened over the weekend? Were some judges bribed?Judgement was NEVER delivered in this matter.Kwasila, we are finished as a nation. The Concourt owes us an explanation. They kept adjourning simple applications or appeals over which they were able to pass rulings the same day. The concourt you have failed us, resign on moral grounds.

    • Who won the majority of seats in parliament? Who won 7 out of 10 provinces? We know who won the elections, it is just that HH and GBM did not want to accept the results just like they said they would not before even one vote was cast.

    • You would not know who won the election because there was no hearing? Really?

      The only thing you should be craving to know was whether the petitioners, with all the antics from their lawyers, really had the OVERWHELMING evidence…

      We all knew who won.

    • 116.1 Mphendula Kayaula
      Rigging was across the board. So we learn. Please check the parliamentary petitions.

  120. I have never seen a leader in HH, HH feeds on himself, he loves listening to himself, everything is about himself. Goodbye HH, it is time to move on and you better humble yourself. Try and emulate EL, he might be clueless or visionless as you always put it but he has beaten you twice. ECL has retired you and I you will never forget ECL. Enjoy licking your wounds HH.

  121. PUSH PULL MENTALITY
    =============
    God Almighty made the children of Israel wander the desert for 40 years to ensure the cream of his people got to the promised land. Chaps complained, insulted and cursed their entire route out of Egypt. The bickering ensued, the situation drove Moses and Aaron nuts until God smote the hell out of the cursing lot.
    Grow up and, like ants and the Chinese, if we stop abusing authority and choose to work as one, trashing tribalism, corruption, gossip and envy we shall surely emerge victorious. National development is not about the “push and pull” kind’a attitude. It’s about the unity of purpose and progressive dreaming; enlivening up of ideas; objective research to garner or improve on new ideas and facts and stopping lazing about in offices, at…

    • … places of work, in issues of national interest with our handheld devices and hope Gold will drop from heaven. We need a unity of objective purpose and like JFK once put it “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

  122. It is said that “the truth always comes out.” It may never have come out in the concourt but it will definitely come out soon. It is only a question of time. And it will be in the public domain.

  123. People banking on this concourt outcome to cause divisions in the nation, I say there will be no such thing! This is all about upnd failing to accept defeat and risking their own relevance to the political arena. Any sharp group around to arise and take the place of upnd, don’t miss this chance oooo!

    • By the way we’ve had more powerful political parties before – unip and mmd – who lost and kept their peace! Upnd has never even been in govt. So please don’t over rate yourselves based on just 3 regions against 7. Mmmmmmmmmm bane!

  124. 1. Dubai ballots petitioned- verdict dismissed
    2. ECZ trucks in Sesheke and L/stone petitioned- verdict dismissed
    3. Marked ballots on Ethiopian cargo plane petitioned- verdict dismissed
    4. August 11 results petitioned -verdict dismissed
    what a legacy!

    • Go to bed and wait for Tuesday 13th for the president to address the nation and it shall be live on radio and ZNBC country wide. God bless Zambia. Am out of here till next time. Five years from now.

  125. @Bang bang
    1. Dubai ballots petitioned- verdict dismissed
    2. ECZ trucks in Sesheke and L/stone petitioned- verdict dismissed
    3. Marked ballots on Ethiopian cargo plane petitioned- verdict dismissed
    4. August 11 rigged results petitioned -verdict dismissed
    Why did your lawyers present these evidences from the begining because ti was false from ZWD. Your learned lawyers refuse to present false evindence hence started looking for other evidence such as all 19hrs from 5th May 2016 to 11th August 2916. Even if you were given two days were you going to able present 82 evidence plus news hours mentioned and be cross exammined in 2 days.

  126. Law is very confusing to comon man three No two Yes. Local court you stole margistrate you did not stole, high court you stole and supreme court you did not stole. Forgive since am the first offender. You dont forgive me I appeal to higher court

  127. For me who has never done law this is very confusing. Is the Constitutional court handing the case to an unknown court? If UPND are the ones who caused the problem were they made aware of the CC’s power ending at 14 days? Is the CC just scared of making a ruling? Or is the CC acting in the good interests of the country by this ruling?

  129. Jurisdiction refers to a court’s power to hear a legal controversy and issue orders regarding it. When a court for legal reasons does not have authority over the parties to a case or the subject matter of the case, it is deemed to have a lack of jurisdiction. A court which lacks jurisdiction cannot hear the case or render any decision about it. A court has jurisdiction over a matter only to the extent granted by the Constitution. In order for it to hear a case, the court must have jurisdiction over the parties, the subject matter, and the particular judgment or remedy being sought. All three types of jurisdiction must be met. When jurisdiction is contested, the court retains jurisdiction to decide that issue. Any decisions made in a case that is heard by a court without…

  130. Any decisions made in a case that is heard by a court without jurisdiction is unenforceable. Cases that result from enforcement by officials without the authority, even when in the appropriate court, also are usually unenforceable. All authorities typically must respect the limits of their power.

  131. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, BA JUDGE YANGENNA MAHALF, K3,000,000.00. AT LAST THEY JUST MAKE A TECHNICALLY WRONG DECISION. CAN THEY SAY THEY REALISED THAT 14 DAYS ENDED ON FRIDAY WHEN THEY REACHED HOME? KAYA, KAYA. PEOPLE TRUSTED AND BELIEVED TO BE EDUCATED, SURE,WERE IS YOUR INTERGRITY. I M SHOCKED.

  133. Two possible theories.
    1. The petitioners’ lawyers knew how to present the case, even though they did believe in it or that they had evidence at all.
    2. HH was more interested in President Lungu vacating office. This wasted a lot of the lawyers time and they did not even believe that that line would succeed because they inderstood the constitution better. But he who pays the piper calls the tune. So HH insisted and the lawyers obliged. When time was wadted the lawyers bailed out to protect what remained of their professional integrity.
    Conclusion: Umulandu wabola pantu ba underfive ifikansa bamona kwzti ebaishiba ifintu beka: economy, finance, law etc etc ba underfive baleimona bukalapashi. With disastrous results.

  134. This disaster for HH and UPND exemplifies the failure by UPND since HH took over the party. The only reason for failure by UPND to form government all these five attempts is that everybody believes that only HH is capable of thinking. Even the lawyers believe the legal expertise lies in HH (just look at the shameful analysis by Muna Ndulo, I refuse to call him Professor), the party functionaries on the ground cannot advise HH on what is happening on the ground. Even the petition evidence was provided by HH when he had no clue what happened at polling stations on ballot day. Even the Stephen Katukas whom we thought could guide that underfive boy looked at him in awe and failed to think.

  135. They never learn. Just watch how they will be wrangling and pointing tribal fingers at each other instead of doing an honest analysis of theirvactual.problem. Watch how the bembas in particular will be villified for the loss. GBM and Nervous have yet to open their eyes, Sampa has already done so. Also watch muzungu wopusa.

  136. What ever the language,you will call him names,but will still be ECL,what ever the insults for Judges the results will remain history, UPND,just pull up yourselves. You will never ever leave our KWACHA. We are not going to force you to start using Shillings or Pulas. You like it or not, you are under ECL obligation. HH is a Zambian with just like you and me. One leader at a Time. Lastly,remember that the courts don’t choose a leader.

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