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Judicial Commission to table complaint demanding removal of Concort Judges

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President Edgar Lungu take Photo with Constitutional Court President and Judges (2nr) Constitutional Court President justice Hildah Chibomba, (r) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Mulenga Mugeni, (from left) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Mwewe Anne Sitali (l) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Enock Mulembe, and Constitutional Court Judge Palan Mulonda shortly after swearing in Ceremony of Constitutional Court Judges at State House
President Edgar Lungu take Photo with Constitutional Court President and Judges (2nr) Constitutional Court President justice Hildah Chibomba, (r) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Mulenga Mugeni, (from left) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Mwewe Anne Sitali (l) Constitutional Court Judge Justice Enock Mulembe, and Constitutional Court Judge Palan Mulonda shortly after swearing in Ceremony of Constitutional Court Judges at State House

The Judicial Complaints Authority is this week expected to table a complaint lodged by two concerned Zambians who reported an alleged misconduct of the Concourt bench for possible disciplinary action.

In a letter dated 3rd September 2016 to the Judicial Complaint Authority, the two citizens Alfred Chims Mbewe of House No. 17/39 Matero in Lusaka and Emmanuel Jackson Mtonga of House No. 38/06 Foxdale, Chelston, Lusaka.

On 3rd September, the two citizens petitioned the Judicial Complaints Commission to discipline the Concourt Judges who presided over a matter taken before the court regarding a presidential petition where the losing UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema was challenging the re-election of the declaration of President Edgar Lungu.

The two demanded the removal of the Concourt bench for their incompetence and violation of the constitution.

In acknowledging receipt of the letter from the two citizens, the Judicial Complaint Authority said they would soon table this complaint before the commission for consideration.

The particulars of the misconduct and incompetence as contended by the two citizens are as follows;

1. Failing to interpret Article 101 (5) of the constitution.

2. Failing to terminate the proceedings at midnight of 2nd September 2016.

3. Ignoring their own rulings that determined when the proceedings will terminate.

4. Failing to charge Lawyer Martha Mushipe contempt for verbally abusing Judge Sitali in open court and thereby failing to uphold the constitution.

5. For Judge Chibomba, failing to declare interest in a matter where her biological Son Mwewa Musema, a South African trained Engineer at ZESCO Kabwata Office is also UPND youth chairman for the Kabwata Constituency.

6. Failing to declare that her husband Augustine Musumali is a strong UPND supporter and holds a high position in the UPND Management Team.

7. For jointly conniving to usurp the powers vested in the Constitution.

8. For pretending to have powers to extend the time limits set by the constitution when in fact not.

Earlier last week on Saturday 3rd September, 2016 the two who are unemployed residents of Lusaka Mbewe and Mtonga, reported the  judges to police for possible arrest according to them, for the breach of the supreme law of the Land- constitution.

But later they were advised to complain to the Judicial Complaints Authority because a judge violating the constitution while on duty enjoys immunity and cannot be arrested but could be disciplined by the judicial Complaint Authority after lodging a complaint with the Authority as it is an independent body that deals with erring judges.

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121 COMMENTS

    • These judges were a disgrace.

      I wish nothing good for them in their personal lives.

      They were as corrupt as fcuk.

      Thanks

      Bb2014

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    • Zambia is now a con failed country where everyone and every institute has been brainwashed by pf’s corruption and tribalism. PF fall from grace will be catastrophic bcz to them, all is by crooked method.

      I feel like vomiting when i think of the injustices and atrocities committed by ecl and his thugs during elections- the use of state-funds for campaigns, the shameless wako ni wako, the smear campaign, media blackout on opposition. Anyway goodlucky to Zambians who still voted for them-a country, a people who embraces corrupt people and mediocrity, what a shame!

    • SO these judges were appinted by Lungu.

      Need I say more?

      There you go.

      Its like waiting for snow in Zambia.

      Never in a million years.

      Another confirmation of my always personal recite.
      I black person is genetically born with a corrupt chip in their body. Some ist expletitively visbly clear and some are good at hiding it.

      You are gentically handicap because of the colour of your skin.

      WHat needed doing is bringing WHite judges from Scotland especially and more so Europe.

      They would have called it right in the middle.

      Dont feed me liberation and or Imperialism. That notion has led noehere in Zimbabwe.

      You need someone of different colour to sort this mess

      Thanks

      BB2014

    • UPND lost. live with it and stop crying like b.i.t.ches. How do you win a presidential election with less MPs . Stop day dreaming and wait for next time…. Remember zambians vote for the humbled ones … at the moment UNPD is too pompus….. I hope you change come 2021 or you will lose again. ZWD is no Zambia. Facebook is not zambia !!! Most people dont even have internet in Zed!! PEACE!@

    • @1.4 Mushota – Of course! You know that the US President appoints the judges of the highest court, don’t you? I rest my case.

    • The three ConCourt judges are a disgrace. They are not fit to be judges, not even of a kangaroo court.

    • The USA President does not appoint judges. He or she simply nominates judges. Ihen, the Senate either confirms them or reject them. It is not of that easy as in Zambia. In fact, some nominees withdraw their nominations.

  1. Don’t even waste time to remove those incompetent judges, they are a disgrace to the constitution, democracy and rule of law.
    HH and UPND all the way.

  2. We should not forget that we are facing this situation for the first time because of the new constitution. Lets give them time to gain more experience , it will be too quick to remove them. Iam sure they have learnt from this experience. Its the fist time we are having the 14 days appeal before inauguration. We need patience as a Nation.

    • They have enriched themselves iwe Edward through their coruption deeds.Why should we let them free? Let them account for all the problems we are in now and the problems will encounter in the next 5 years of the corrupt pf and Jameson Vodka Chakolwa Rungu…

  3. Zambia is now a lawless country, A criminal like max chongo sitting outside Concourt waiting for judges on a weekend without been arrested. Max chongo less then two months ago was in a gun exchange with the Zambia police in eastern province or now called PF POLICE.

  4. Wait a minute. These complaints seem to be done by PF members. They are complaining about UPND, right? I will also write to counter this. Busy time for the courts.

  5. Even a grade three knows that those elections were rigged to favour Pf , international community knows that HH WON the elections. To all Pf bandits am bembe and was born in ndola both parents are bembes , so its now tride but that’s RULE OF LAW.

  6. The same head of the judicial review was sat on the petition bench so how can the same judge make a decision about complaints about the team he was part of. Lungu and his relatives are taking us for a ride . As I said in Zambia we just have to let nature do its own thing and eliminate a few people

  7. The guilty are always afraid! Why not hear the petition if you have nothing to hide? How are you going to be singing “Stand up and sing of Zambia, Proud and Free………Land of Work and Peace in Unity?” Will that not be an abomination in the sight of God?

    It is not only the National Constitution that has been broken, the singing of the National Anthem has also been rendered useless, odious and vile!!!

    • If you have a water-tight case, why not present the evidence instead of concentrating on side issues asking the ECZ and ZNBC to give you evidence? They had no evidence that’s why they were waffling about waiting for the time to elapse so that they could something or someone to blame for the failure of their case.

    • @ The Seer
      ..
      Land of Work and Peace in Unity?” Is that a stanza from the National Anthem of Tajikistan? Too many Congolese on this site! Others are BEMBES! Yack!

    • I couldn’t agree with you more..The Seer…you and I are on the same page. PF thugs have taken Zambia for granted and all they want now is for us who mean well for Zambia to simply forget about the rigging and move on….my question is move on where? We have to sort this mess out first or they will be no Zambia. What a filthy and corrupt ECL guy is. Zambians please do the right thing and get rid of this maggot of a President who continues to abuse the power he holds with impunity. Zambians umwenso Walipaya pa Zed ati it’s OK let’s move on…to where? And please stop comparing our very rotten politics to that of the Americans….we are way behind them in terms of democracy. And mind you the UK and indeed the US have not directly congratulated ECL. South Africa and Nigeria have not…

  8. Abena Zambia nabacha. Look out HH, you are not the only one who has human rights, 15million Zambians each have human rights which is why we have rules in place to regulate the exercise and enjoyment of those rights, including the clearer-than-mineral water 14 days time limit for petitions.

    • Terrible. You are right. i have so many rights that have been infringed upon by one HH. The right to have a government in place after voting. It is my constitution right and I am going to petition HH why I do not have a minister of justice, health, education etc.

    • You are indeed very terrible as you name suggests. You are not even ashamed to say out loud that we have rules in Zambia…??? Kwena ulichikopo chamuntu….Zambia is dead there’s no rule of law, no constitution and no Judiciary. This is what happens when you let thugs and ex cons to rule the country. I feel so sorry for my well meaning people of Zambia including my relatives. This is not the Zambia I have always known. Shame shame upon all who voted for PF…no scope.

    • To get majority vote (more than 50% for or against) all the time for decisions which need voting to avoid stalemate (50% against 50%) which means draw game & no one wins. Voting stage by the bench means fundamental arguments have been exhausted & its like penalty shootout stage in cup final football match.

  9. if the judges supported the petition be heard no insults would have come out. everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. Lets not insult each other. If we need change it surely has to start with us. especially you.

  10. HH should take a leaf from these two guys instead of suing everything that has something to do with the law,olo mwalawa by the time these lawyers are finished milking your money,nganiba GBM uluse mama.

    • GBM is already bankrupt just wait when Bailiffs pounce on him for failure to liquidate nkongole he has for those Arizona trucks he has failed to run.

    • NO NOT TRUE. THESE ARE PF SYMPATHISERS AND OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO TAKE THEIR CASE AGAINST THE SAME JUDGES FOR ACTING UNPROFFESSIONALY AND SHOWING US THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA THAT THEY WERE BOUGHT OFF. WE WANT THE TRUTH AS TO THE CONCOURTS SUDDEN DECISION ON NOT CONTINUEING THE CASE AND DID ECL WIN WITH 50 PLUS 1 PLUS HOW CAN THERE BE JUDGEMENT WITHOUT A HEARING FROM BOTH PARTIES. WE DONOT HAVE TO BE LEARNED PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WHAT THE CONCOURT DONE WAS WRONG AND IT HAS DIMINISHED OUR BELIEF THAT THE COURTS ARE FAIR AND JUST.

    • @Kubweka
      I know replying to you is a sheer waste of time because you are an indoctrinated cadre who takes all the crap Larry Mweetwa and your useless ZWD write to massage your small brains! However, I wanted to inform YOU that YES Edgard Chagwa Lungu won by 50+1%! Shhh just shut up don’t say anything anymore!

  11. The Chairperson of the Judicial Complaints Commission is Prof Mvunga who happens to be a Legal Adviser to Lungu. Sitali Mwewa is a relative of Lungu and while Mulenga Mungeni is a close friend of Lungu. Pse include all this in yr letter of complaints. U are opening a Pandora’s box without knowing.

  12. Everyone is now a lawyer in Zambia! Everyone is now competent to interpret law! Everyone is learned!

    Throw away those law degrees, close ZIALE, close the courts and burn those gowns!

    For everyone is now a lawyer!

  13. That divide between the bench, the accused, the advocate and the people has now been erased! For the judge sits among the people not from a raised intimidating scaffold.but He now sits among indistinguishable fellows!

    • And that has been birthed by the incorrigible ConCourt.

      It tried to dununa reverse, GBM n HH. Now it’s dununa forward after engaging PF dununa reverse gear.

      Judiciary has been bust…..will never be the same. Flip flop…flip flop.

  14. That my friends is recipe for chaos!

    The power of the law is in its fear!

    Can the law be applied without its fear?

    Can order be achieved without fear of the law?

  15. No one is above the law…you have every right to challenge anybody…it time Zambians woke up from their docility and their “boma ni boma” mindset.

  16. The constitution is that document that espouses and attempts to achieve the ideal freedom.

    The interpreters of the constitution must be above board and afforded the highest esteem!

    For this only is our only hope for freedom, ideal freedom.

  17. When unip lost to mmd, no tribal issue was raised, just like there was none when mmd lost to pf. upnd must seriously do an honest self-examination to own up and deal with their tribal baggage lest they bring about Armageddon in our peaceful nation.

  18. Why did you want Judge Chibomba to declare interest? Just because her close relations are in politics does not stop her from professionally executing her duties as a concourt President. The truth of the matter is that those judges on the concourt were not left alone to carry out their duties independently.PF cadres camped near the court premises almost the whole weekend. If they were from the opposition they were going to be straightaway arrested for unlawful assembly. The concourt could have passed a fair judgement based on the presentations from both parties if they had been left to do their job in a non-partisan and professional manner. That panel comprising the concourt judges should have been appointed by the Judicial Service Commission and not by the President. But then, as…

    • @My Voice, do you have the same problem of counting like GBV and HH? Let me help you..1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14. See it’s that easy! Now start counting also and if you cant, well spare us your off tune voice (chileya too much!)

  19. Whilst the law does not cure, it reveals the intents. When HH was beckoned to be heard within the limitations set he squandered that opportunity with unbelievable preliminaries that stole away his chance. Yes, he needed to be heard but not at the expense of the overall good of the nation that had agreed to limit the hearing to 14 Days.

    • @Guliat

      What is the purpose of Orders of Directions that court gives opposing sides.

      Do you turn up on the dates given for trial and the judge then throws his hands up that she cant hear you and then you compose an ode for her?! If the courts are the ones who have taken over the orders then you have a beef to test with other justices.

  20. Jay jay

    Slavery was opposed right from the beginning! It served the interest of the oppressor. It was a bad law!

    On the other hand our constitution can not begin to be compared to that imperialist law under which slavery was practiced.

  21. I salute the two complainants for fighting corruption, nepotism, favouritism in our judicial system. Concerns expressed on #5 & 6 are very serious & if allowed to continue, many citizens will will be jailed, fired or retired because of HH & GBM who desperately want to use any public officer in power they know for their benefit without weighing the consequences for such poor people like Chibomba. Unless stern disciplinary measures are taken to serve as a deterrent measure, many poor public officers will be put in trouble in addition to those already jailed in Southern Province riots. On #4 the entire bench should be reprimanded for failing to discipline Mushipe for demeaning the Court. They should have cited her for contempt & locked up her for at least 7 days. Next time she will do it to…

    • Next time she will do it to ECL after ECZ & ConCourt because she is unstoppable. Declaring interest is privilege for the bench & costs nothing in order for them to instill confidence in the judiciary unlike what is being raised on # 5 & 6 & to make matters worse the breach is being committed by the President of ConCourt herself. Even for HH & GBM to decide to go to High Court they must have spotted onother opportunity which will land people there in similar problems unless Judicial Complaint Commission does something today to protect our people. Otherwise the final judgement passed on petition is fair to both sides & is credible because it was done by open voting & the majority voters restored the credibility of the entire bench including the 2 who voted against it.

  22. What HH wanted was ‘unrestricted freedom’ to be heard. As I have said already ‘unrestricted freedom’ is chaos. Well, that is what HH wanted. To ensure that the president is not inaugurated, inspire of everyone including all international observers confirming that ECL won the elections, backed by corresponding parliamentary results indicating that majority provinces backed of.

    • And where do you get that ”working” from? It’s plain simple, 14 days period. Oh guys spare us your whining we’ve had enough of it already! Do you guys have gristles in your heads?

    • We use English here Mzee Hekima as an official language and NOT Swahili. It’s not our fault if you cannot read English. Please stay there, we have enough imbeciles here already and some are hiding in the courts instead of facing their parties and do a post moterm for their unwavering electoral failuers!

  23. How did the complainants forget to add the following:

    a) For Judge Mwewa-Sitali failed to declare interest in a matter where her Husband is a main benefactor of PF Road Contracts worth millions.

    b) For Judge Mulenga Mungeni, failed to declare interest in a matter where she’s a former Classmate at UNZA to LUNGU & played a big role in installing LUNGU as PF Presidential candidate after the bogus PF convention in Kabwe hence her being rewarded with KangCourt position.

  24. Complaint number 5 & 6 are lacking merit and substance in them. Its a clear recipe for vedictiveness,jelous,and divisions. Judge Hilda can not interfere in the son and her husband’s political association whether UPND or not we are all Zambians and have rights to work in any government parastetal.Lets not do witch-hunting but embrace peace, unity love and respect divergent views.

  25. This judge called CHIBOLA or CHIBOMBA whatever the name, she is a disgrace, so she wanted to put us in tum oil because of her husband and son? what nonsense is this? please mr president fire this IDI OT she is a danger to our country. she does not use her position well instead she abuse it.

  26. 85 PF MPs WON and the opposition has a respectable 60 MPs. The independents are PF. So How did HH win and how did 85 plus MPs win. where they stolen or what. Dullness involves mistaking reality for false which ZWD and most UPND blind followers are doing. I feel pity because they have 1,825 days of mourning. For the rest of us we move on and build our lives even in the challenging economic environment. MWACHULENI BA UPND. MULOSHE BWINO.
    By the way DOOM is available for those who are tired of mourning

  27. The judiciary cannot be seen to be degraded by these type of politically motivated complaints. All legal bodies receiving all these fallout actions from the elections by the losers and their supporters; MUST. Deal with them urgently and throw them out. There is no merit here. Furthermore can these two who were not PARTIES to the case file a complaint on the Judges conduct as they DID not take part in the case. The behaviour of Judges can only affect those who were in the case. Citizens can complain but it seems the Two are doing what HH and GBM should have done instead of filing VEXATIOUS court cases. Both these cases should fail, judges were only making a decision based on the way the Litigants failed to get their case off the block.

    • As for the newly filed court case, it is clearly vexatious and there are remedies for vexatious litigants the court can take. They must find them Vexatious and bitterly and erroneously trying to bring cases that are inciting violence among citizens, that are causing a demeaning image of the Office of the President and the Judiciary. Judiciary must impose an injunction against any further attempts to file unmerited cases that serve nothing but to violate the rights of appointed and elected persons.

      If the Judiciary do not disbar Mushioe&Co for their display of dismissive behaviour to the Judiciary and injunction HH and GBM, the opinion of the judiciary will continue to lower and create a Lawless country because no one will respect the judiciary.

    • The judiciary MUST ACT IN UNION. Those two judges acting differently to their colleagues must be disciplined. You can’t have Judges talking against one another without respect. The Concourt decision failed because of the behaviour of the litigants. In future, preliminary/interlocutory hearings must be given more powers to ensure they investigate the motivation of the Litigant in challenges to a Presidential election. The evidence must be investigated on exchange of evidence and if it found frivolous and wanting the Respondents must be given the right to dismiss the case and it must be given promo,y. The Judges in this case did their job properly and rightly adjourned to Monday as a late night decision would NOT have entertained us enough! Victory was awarded righteously. The…

    • The Judges in this case did their job properly and rightly adjourned to Monday as a late night decision would NOT have entertained us enough! Victory was awarded righteously. The difference in presentation between President Lungu and HH&Co is commendable in the case of the Respondents. (Promptly not prom,.ly!)

  28. I have relinquished citizenship of this cesspit called Zambia. It’s so nauseating to see the tribalism, the corruption, the dictatorship and seeing prominence being given to sycophants who think that the sun shines out of chakolwa’s a@s

  29. Thankfully, this is not a fiery tale! We can order a replay and see where it all went wrong. I see a tendency in some on this blog to call white, black and black, white; right, left and left, right. That’s propaganda at work!

    • @Meimatunga, honestly the judges acted correctly. There was no overwhelming evidence supporting HH and GBM. Must we have divisive court cases just for the sake of them? Majority of MPs went to PF, president Lungu got majority votes and first past the post. UPND must suck it up. We need to move on. It’s all very annoying because of lack of substance in the complaints

    • @38.1 Patriot Abroad
      Thankfully, history, kind and generous as ever, will one day afford us a replay. It’s then that you will swallow your own words.

  30. Late Sata brought in Judge Chikopa because he knew the connections Zambian Judges may have with complainant. Most people rebuked late Sata for his action. On this issue alot of people have seen sense in what Late Sata did.

  31. 11 PILLARS OF DEMOCRACY: –

    1.SOVERIEGNTY OF THE PEOPLE i.e The right to decide-education, home, children, marriage, job?
    2. GOVERNMENT based upon CONSENT of the GOVERNED.
    Did LUNGU legitimately win?
    3. MAJORITY RULE
    Did LUNGU legitimately win?
    4. MINORITY RIGHTS
    All minorities, Tongas, Kachokwes, Lundas, Ushi’s right to Govern Zambia
    5. GUARANTEE OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS
    Police & PF Cadre Brutality
    6. FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS
    Did LUNGU legitimately win?
    7. EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW
    Is ConCourt biased or compromised?
    9. CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON GOVERNMENT
    Is the President not accountable to the Constitution?
    10. SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL PLURALISM I.e. Right to belong to any group without
    Government interference
    11.VALUES of TOLERANCE, PRAGMATISM, COOPERATION, and…

  32. Latest; high court has thrown out the application for an ex parte order by UPND, sorry I mean by HH underfive.
    Reliable information is that HH will now apply for an inter parte order….kikikikikiki

    Looks like HH cannot survive without getting the presidency. Emuti ba ba pele ku n’ganga yabo. Dont worry HH, since it has become certain that you are now dying, the UPND shall build you a mausoleum in Dundumwezi with an inscription “the president who never was”. Happy now, underfive?

  33. To under five and his pimp fat albert, how can you sue the chief justice and her deputy in their court and hope to suceed. You are trully foolish. Your action is not about human rights, its just on ECL. Mwanya ba fikala he is being inaugurated next tuesday and you together with your other cartel members ninshi sazanda

  34. MULENGA MUNGENI, ONE NAME CONNECTED TO SO MANY THINGS. CHECK THE KABWE CONVENTION U WILL FIND A SIMILAR NAME. MILES & ECL STAND OFF ON WHO WAS TO STAND ON PF AT TICKET IN 2015, U WILL FIND THIS NAME. APPOINTMENT OF CON.COURT JUDGES, THE SAME NAME STILL POPS UP AND NOW IN THIS CURRENT SAGA, THIS SAME NAME IS YET AGAIN POPPING UP. WHAT IS SO SPECIAL WITH THIS MAN?

  35. Judging the ConCourt Judges by the Constitution itself, in particular Article 101(5),(6) and Article103(2),(3).

    1. Both clause (5) of Article 101 and (2) of Article 103 states that, “the court shall hear a Presidential petition within
    14 of the filling of the petition.
    JUDGEMENT: (a) The Judges went out of the time limits and context of law by making a rulling on the 17th
    (b) Considering the phrase saying, “the court shall hear,” is an obligation to the Judges to hear
    petition before they could make a rulling. Them went to make a rulling without to the
    petition.

    2. Both clause (6) of Article 101 and (3) of Article 103 dictates the final Judgements…

  36. We all know that politics is a dirt game. Few of us, if any, care how dirt it becomes. What we also known, however, is that the Judiciary is a more respectable member of the family. The concern of at least a few of us here is that, in Zambia the Judiciary appears to have crossed the line, and has suddenly become just as dirt, if not dirtier than politics. Zambia, a country that once prided itself as a Christian nation, has undeniably become a den of thieves, a hideout for robbers. With the Judiciary thus hanging on the cross, where do we turn? Where do we run to?

  37. This is not about HH winning or losing. It’s about Zambia winning, not losing. Any country that denies itself justice is on a coalition course to oblivion. Personally, I would have wanted Lungu to win, considering he only has had a single year in office. It would have been unfair for him or any other Zambian for that matter, to vacate the presidency that soon. It just would not have been fair. Therefore, it’s not my concern that Lungu won and HH lost. My concern is about Justice and Democracy in Zambia. I must have to consider myself insane, if I re-attempted to convince myself that Justice and Democracy still exist in Zambia. And that is not because I care if they don’t. It’s just that we, as a people, appear to have had a vicious craving for these two virtues. Now, all of a sudden,…

    • Ho la la la la…….Who knew that virtue still lingers in the minds of Zambians? What a man!!!!

      This indeed is NOT about the elevation of one side of the divide per se BUT the process, its integrity and constitutionalism. Respect of fundamental rights. Article 45, 101-105. That is what is on trial here!! It is not that Lungu should give way to HH as much as it is if Lungu should be there or indeed HH challenge in the first place. Rule of Law. Democracy. Justice. Right to be heard – audi alteram partem, one of the most cherished and sacrosanct principles of law . Nemo Iudex In Causa Sua (biasness). Competence. Transparency. Dignity.

  38. contined:
    …….. It’s just that we, as a people, appear to have had a vicious craving for these two virtues. Now, all of a sudden, we don’t and seem not to even care. What a shame! How hypocritical I would be, should I be heard singing that song again. It would be repugnant.

  39. Both ecl and hh had 14 days in which to win the case. Ecl was praying that the 14 days finish without anything happening so that he wins while hh kept himself busy making many applications hoping that the judges would give him exta time. HH thought things would happen like in soccer finals where you can have indefinite penalty shootouts as long as no one scores the winning goal. Alas!! That could not be. The humble thing to do is accept defeat and move on. Hh is still energetic to be President in 2021. Ndine mu-Bembeeeee!

    • The next time a gang in your neighborhood rapes your wife and daughters, robs you and beats your children and the magistrate tells you he cant hear you on a matter of technicality and pleads res judicata……”The humble thing to do is accept defeat and move on.”

      Bembe, it’s such defeatist attitudes that keep many poor in real life and also breeds criminals in our midst. A wrong has to be vigorously resisted, fought and pushed back. In this case my bro, you appeal to the High Court and declare the magistrate’s stance as perverse and if needs be go on to the Supreme Court and if needs be take it to the AU Human Rights Court and if needs be…..

  40. All those questioning how HH “won” because most of the parliamentary seats were scooped by PF are not asking fair questions.This is the opportunity that the concourt denied him:the chance to be heard and prove how he “won”.I’m a very sad citizen of this country today because justice has been killed.And the Chief Justice will proudly swear-in the winner next Tuesday “believing that justice was delivered?”OMG!!!!

  41. @52, justice has been “killed” you say? Well, that was the intention of the constitution, and you cannot say that it was unfair because when that law of 14 days was framed, it was not framed with HH in mind, it is applicable to anybody. Mulekwatako amano bane, the trouble with your thinking is that your brain is wrapped in red overalls.

  42. UPND you’re still crying it’s over. You’ve lost again and again no more go home. It’s time to work now no more court hearing .I’d rather vote for PF even if we fail than UPND even if you say you can fix it. But you’ve failed to fix the courts. Jokers

  43. Inauguration on Tuesday 13 September 2016. Uuuhhmm I see. Diarise the date.

    Meanwhile HH and UPND are cracking like ceramic tiles.

  44. Mulenga Mungeni (former ECL classmate at law school and legal secretary at Council Sewerage company) wants to beset this nation with NO judgements:

    She did it first time in 2014 to Miles Sampa and said she could only hear him AFTER Edgar participated in the Presidential election in January 2015!

    Sensing the wonderful achievement she pulled through, ECL promoted her to Constitutional Court where he suspected that there would be an election petition.

    And again Mungeni did her neat little trick again! She working with Mwewa refused to hear the matter on the date they set (Orders of Direction) for their Court to HEAR the Petitioners. Dangerous Ladies. And oh Palan, he is still acting Ambassador to the USA for his mate ECL.

  45. Leave this court we can’t run a country on emotion kikiki nt even the president can fire a judge thy are good judges its only bribes from politicians which confused them,the judges in Zambia are moved by it I guess,you bring ones thy too will moved politicians have deep pockets !in this world money talks,let’s only stick to God kingdom ours is nt of this world!

  46. *****, if you read what people are saying it would be good; i am not a upnd cadre but a ZAMBIAN wanting to hear the truth and see that we have a judiciary free of corruption and by your insulting language goes to show that you are a PF cadre who has been given alot of our tax money to blog and insult anyone speaking against the circus that is called the concourt; so now shut your ***** mouth you moron; empty vessel you are a kaponya and your language on internet says it all;

  47. when the same CC ruled against lungu in the case of ministers they were angels now there are devils because they have favoured lungu.

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