UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has charged that the Zambian judiciary is decaying by the day as more politically inclined Judges and Magistrates get appointed.
And Mr Hichilema says Zambians are extremely stressed today than ever before.
Speaking Sunday evening when he featured on the Assignment programme on Muvi TV, Mr Hichilema said the number of credible Judges and Magistrates is getting fewer by the day.
He charged that the number of politically charged court officials is increasing.
Mr Hichilema was responding to a question as to whether the UPND has confidence in the Zambian Judiciary’s ability to deliver timely justice.
He said there are some good Judges and Magistrates in the system except they are getting fewer by the day.
“We have a number of good judges and Magistrates but the good ones are getting fewer by the day. Those that are politically inclined are getting more,” Mr Hichilema said.
The UPND leader charged that the constitutional court’s biggest failure was its inability to enforce Article 104 of the Constitution which clearly stipulated that once a presidential petition is submitted, the Presidency has to move to the Speaker of the National Assembly.
“This Article has nothing to do with the individuals holding those positions. It’s about the institutions and yet the Constitutional Court dramatically failed to enforce Article 104 which says in no uncertain terms that once a presidential petition is submitted, the presidency moves to the Speaker of the National Assembly. The reason for this is to allow the petition to be adjudicated in a free and fair manner.” he said.
Mr Hichilema said it is grossly unfair that the Judges at the Constitutional Court failed to enforce this constitutional provision.
He added, “The Speaker and the President failed to respect the constitution and the Constitutional Court also failed. Would you have confidence in Judges that fails to enforce a very dramatic clause like that?”
“The Judicial Complaints Authority, not much is going on there. Everything is lost, the Executive is lost, the Judiciary is decaying everyday due to inappropriate members discharging justice unfairly,” he stressed.
Mr Hichilema said this is a matter that all citizens must pay attention to.
The UPND President further reiterated that his party still does not recognise the PF government because it believes it won the August elections.
“We are still in court of law. Our matter has not been heard but we believe we have a right to be heard. The issue of wining and dining with Lungu (President Lungu) doesn’t arise,” Mr Hichilema said.
“For us this is a matter of giving Ceaser was belongs to Ceaser. It’s a question of justice and fairness. If they believe they won the election, why are they afraid of having the matter heard. The old saying is true here, the guilty are always afraid. Let’s have our day in court, let’s have the matter be heard. The Munali and Lusaka Central constituency petitions brought out the evidence which is being avoided in the presidential petition,” he said.
Meanwhile, the UPND leader says Zambians are extremely stressed today than ever before due to the alleged mismanagement of the country by the PF administration.
“Peoples incomes have been swallowed up by the high costs of basic commodities. Jobs are not there and families are struggling,” he said.
There goes HH’s little chance of winning his election petition
HH you are the one decaying by the day and getting further and further away from ever being elected. Bye, I see maggots!
I agree with HH. Those criticizing him don’t want to hear the truth. I know truth hurts but those of us who have relatives with cases in court know how cadres have taken over. The situation is pathetic!
Its just because its HH telling as is. If it was Miyanda every one would agree, including Lubinda.
Yeah his hands must be smaller than Trumps. Country first
So, according to HH, the law is decaying by the day except for those two judges who went in his favour on the split vote ruling regarding his expired petition.
For the judiciary to correct it has to align itself with HH and UPND.
Hichilema will be crying for the next 4 years as he is too naive he thought he would just snatch under Lazy even on Ballot paper printed by Arabs recommended by MU7…really laughable…please pass him some tissue!!
I wonder why people can’t face the truth. HH has indeed blown his chances with this statement. O tho l for him to issue the statement was because he could see he would lose his case. Ba GBM limbi you are an option?
LT the Nshima eating competition is trending on social media…why not a Q and A for the current champ?
We told you Bwana Hechi Hechi that it is rotten and oozing foul smelling pus but you still think it has just started decaying. Take a leaf from Sata who, after being robbed by RB, chose to look forward. Time to call it off is now!
We will hear from your wife Linda kasonde Hichilema if she is going to condemn your uncontrolled mouth mr HH.
Mr HH, how do you expect to be heard when you refuse to talk by hiding behind the so-called ‘preliminaries’?
Is it not that you ran away from your own petition after realising that Maureen Mwanawasa was not ready to defend fake news that she found your votes in a bin.
Maureen told you she was a lawyer and not a propagator of fake news. And you could not find another person to offer and defend the idea of votes in a bin.
So you ran away from your petition because you could not cook evidence at the same rate as you managed to cook the allegations.
So, how could you be heard when you could not talk? Did you want the defendant to talk on your behalf, the way you wanted the defendant (ZNBC) to provide evidence?
At what point did you realise that being heard was important?
Mr. HH, YOU WILL DO BETTER TO DO MORE ON EXPOSING FAILURES of the PF after elections rather than STAYING FIXATED ON THE PETITION MANY MONTHS AFTER IT FAILED GIVE YOU EXPECTED RESULTS. Look at Malawi maize saga, purported corruption in FISP and Construction Sector etc. WHY NOT BRING OUT EVEN ONE SOLID CASE and DEMONSTRATE HOW DIFFERENT YOU WOULD THINGS? You may get your wish BUT THAT MAY BE TOO LATE and at the EXPENSE OF ORGANIZING your party and marketing it through actions aimed at improving the governance of the country which MAY COST YOU ANOTHER ELECTION!
Detractors like you can never see face to face with truth
@2.1 Daniel.. KEEP STAYING IN DENIAL!! The TRUTH IS WHEN ONE WINS HEARTS OF THE VOTERS THROUGH PRACTICAL ACTIONS PROTECTING THEIR INTERESTS, THEY GET THE VOTE! Even those planning to rig get scared to do so! AT this STAGE THE COURT CASE NOW LOOKS LIKE A PURELY PRIVATE MATTER! SEE HOW XAVIER CHISHIMBA IS LAUNCHING himself by TACKLING POPULAR CASES OF ABUSE OF AUTHORITY,THEFT OF PUBLIC RESOURCES AND CORRUPTION! When HE BECOMES MORE POPULAR THAN SOME LONG SERVING OPPOSITION LEADERS, You will cry foul! Let us wait and see where things will go!!
…Judicial arena has really preoccupied HH….by the time he will want to look else where, 2021 will be glaring in his eyes…
UPND misused 14days to argue their case. By the way their MP in Itezhi Tezhi also lost the seat so it means what?
these were facts.rightly stated! who can argue that families ain’t struggling/saffering? only stupid preeks can’t attest to the fact that the ruling party is hell bent on only seeing innocent persons get persecuted as a way of letting the ill informed electorates turn a blind eye on real issues affecting them coupled with what’s obtaining on the ground! silly pranks.
What facts…up to now hh has failed to present facts except accusing judges of being political. Shame
THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE TO THE DOGS THE ZAMTEL CHIEF IN HIS OWN WORDS SAYS HE HAS RESIGNED.THESE ARE THIEVES WHO HAVE STOLEN FROM A LIMPING ORGANISATION INVESTIGATE THE ENTIRE ZAMTEL DIRECTORS.THEY HAVE BEEN GIVING THEM SELVES LUCRATIVE CONTRACT DEALS AND CHANNELING MONEY IN TO THERE OWN ACCOUNTS.
I feel he is correct, the judiciary is not delivering justice properly. Needs overhaul
Ahhhh HH l thought u had yo day in court which u did not ulitlise,blaming the judges,l dont thnk so,blame yoself nd yo defence team.if we had u during cha cha ,we could still be under colonial rule..poor planning..
Haters will hate
Lungu is the most corrupt leader zambia has ever had. His fraud conviction was not a coincidence.
If he won the elections why are you hiding behind technicalities like the 14 day technicality ? 14 or 17 or 30 days won’t change the truth of who won.
From the closure of the post, a viable business willing to pay tax arrears to his silence on Malawi maize gate to his approval of Davis mwila urging thugs to steal plots and take over stations and markets, the man has not a hair of honesty on him.
When he was minister of home affaires he was about to approve a LCC $230 million CCTV corrupt deal for lusaka. It was the post that exposed him.
Every one knows of his associations with known leabanese criminal fawaaz.
You forget that corruption was st it’s highest during Mwanawasa time; that is well documented.
M’membe started evading tax and statutory obligations at the shielding of Mwanawasa.
The same tax issues including huge loans obtained from public institutions by M’membe and refusing to pay back were facilitated by Mwanawasa.
The post tax matter being tackled today was the work of Mwanawasa, and when RB tried tackle it in 2009 he was labeled a bad leader and against the post.
Lungu has let institutions such as ZRA to do their work, he is called corruption.
What are we talking about? Do we know what we want?
Or is it that we are so ignorant that we have no idea of what we want.
Temper temper #kadd mc Haters will hate
Sounds like Trump except the gentleman here has no power. You just have to play back the Trump tapes following his failed cases on immigration ban. And both are rich in their own light. No mere coincidence, I suppose.
Very funny. Love the bit about him not having any power, that is a fact not fake news.
Trump is behaving so Zambian. His attacks on the “dishonest” media sound so much like PF against the Post and ZWD. His targeting of Mexicans is like Lungu’s animosity towards Tongas. The only difference is that Trump talks all the time but in Zambia PF are crookedly quiet while they steal the whole economy.
How can things change if we don’t fight for our rights allowing thieves to steal from you? We don’t want stealing to continue hence the fight is worthy. We shall continue putting pressure on you guys, it will won’t be easy ride for you learn to respect the law and the wishes of majority Zambians.
Lungu did not steal any vote.
Instead it was HH who wanted to steal the election but failed.
Explain to me how Maureen Mwanawasa found herself with HH’s votes in a bin.
And I will tell you why HH avoided hearing his own petition.
When you cook an allegation you have to cook evidence too, the later being much harder though.
Maureen Mwanawasa refused to involve herself in fake news, and told HH to avoid creating falsehood using her name.
Many other allegations failed in a similar manner because they were falsehood.
This gave HH a tough time trying to reorganise his oven baked petition.
Hence running away from the petition to invest in preliminaries which saw him run out of time.
This is how HH failed to steal the elections. So how can you say we allowed someone…
Decaying judiciary like the peanut size brain in your head.
Kaponya (HH) verandah president of the United Ponyio Nyio Dogs UPND
DID YOUR CHAGWA GET HIS LAWYERS LICENCE REVOKED FOR THEFT?? COME ON CADRES DISPUTE THIS!!
Anybody following a corrupt leader must also be corrupt themselves!
It amazing me that Zambians abroad are busy criticising HH. Some of these have not been to Zambia to see how Zambia has been destroyed. In Lusaka for example, be there like now when it is summer. When it rains most parts of Lusaka get flooded. Drainage system non-existence. Farmers were getting fertilisers in Feb instead of November. Newly built in roads after few months get damaged. Zambia as a country is gone. New areas are emerging for middle class but road network is zero. Old townships completely neglected and run down.
And all that is Chagwa’s fault? Really?
Whether HH does not win in future, PF is not the answer to Zambian problems. We need another Mwanawasa. All those who came after him have taken Zambia a step backwards.
You are a lier! What did Mwanawasa do worth noting apart from persecuting pipo from a certain region? Even Sata did much better than Mwanawasa.
Neither is YOUR HH the solution! No wonder people don’t even want try him just for once!
Our Courts are supposed to deliver Justice but they are not doing so becoz the Judiciary is now corrupt and is no longer independent of the Executive Arm of Government. A judge’s moto should be to deliver Justice without fear,favour or prejudice. Concourt judges who are Friends of Lungu showed lack of independence and professionalism in handling the Petition. The 2016 Zambian Election was not free,fair , credible and transparent. As a result the Elections were disputed and Petitioned. That Petition has not been heard, determined and disposed off. Without the Petition being heard Lungu will remain illegitimate becoz he was not democratically,lawfully and Constitutionally Elected and Inaugurated. The Petitioners should fight on until Justice is delivered to the People of Zambia.Zambians…
If you have any hope in both the ruling and opposition parties turning around the fortunes of this country,You need as a matter of urgency to see the nearest doctor. Though I doubt he would have any cure for you
Trump and HH were cut from the same fabric. Narcissistic tendencies are so visible from the two. But in this case Trump made it, albeit with help from the vodka drinking chaps!while our HH still crying over spilt milk. Nothing good can come from the other if not done by them. So Sad
@19 Dem… you sound like you are one of the journalists from the British Broadcasting Clinton(BBC) or the Clinton news network(CNN). Seems obama and hillary cast a spell on you. the world needs the likes of trump not weaklyings like obama, hillary.
Most of the comments are driven by either hatred for HH or cadre mentality and this thinking that once something has passed we should move on to the next or focus on the next project,if this was the case with our freedom fighters we would not be politically independent because KK and crew would have moved onto the next project after 5 or 10 years of struggle.if Trump was the head of state here he would not be facing the challenges hes facing now,the travel ban would have been effected without a wimper from our so called judges..
International legal minds were eagerly following the election petition. However the conduct of ConCourt shocked the entire world, such a shame to the Zambia Judiciary.
That was one of the LOWEST moments for our judiciary, even lower than when Judge Skinner was chased out by UNIP cadres, lower than when Chief Justice Silungwe acquitted Kambarage Kaunda for killing his ex-girlfriend.
At least we still have people of integrity like HH with a good head above their shoulders.
Imagine 90% of Zambia with low integrity like Frank Bwalya, Max Chongo, LUNGU, Siliya, Jerabos & other PF00Lish thieves. it’s NOT by accident that Zambia is under-developed but becoz of small actions of a large number of f00ls combined to make one mess called Zambia.
Mr HH, how do you expect to be heard when you refuse to talk by hiding behind the so-called ‘preliminaries’
Is it not that you run away from your own petition after realising that Maureen Mwanawasa was not ready to defend fake news that she found your votes in a bin.
Maureen told you that she was a lawyer and not a propagator of fake news. And you could not find another person to offer and defend the idea of votes in a bin.
So you ran away from your petition because you could not cook evidence at the same rate as you managed to cook the allegations.
So, how could you be heard when you could not talk? Did you want the defendant to talk on your behalf, the way you wanted the defendant (ZNBC) to provide evidence?
At what point did you realise that being heard was important?…
Hazaluza Hagain is decaying every day. This loser takes the people of Zambia for granted!
kikikikikikikiki….!! Pa last you can just lough mweh… kikikikikikikiki some bloggers…aweh sure… kikikikikikikiki,ok you’ve made my night all of you!
kikikikikikikiki….!! Pa last you can just lough mweh… kikikikikikikiki some bloggers…aweh sure… kikikikikikikiki,ok you’ve made my night all of you!
The legal president of Zambia has spoken. I can’t even add more to this wisdom. We thank you
If any normal person still doubts many Zambians who say HH will never be Republican president,then that person needs to see a doctor at chainama!!HH is a lost politician and nobody will ever make him popular!HH will 100% lose 2021 general elections.his image is destroyed beyond any normal limit in 6.5 provinces!!BUT LET HH KEEP ON CRYING OVER HIS FAILED PETITION UNTIL ITS TOO LATE FOR HIM WHILE PF IS BUSY WORKING ACROSS ZAMBIA!!
HH is decaying by the hour, please Upnd get rid of him.
DID YOUR CHAGWA GET HIS LAWYERS LICENCE REVOKED FOR THEFT?? COME ON CADRES DISPUTE THIS!!
Why didn’t you ask this question when he stood as MP, when Sata appointed him minister of justice, defense, PF GS and eventually acting president? In any case Linda Association of Zambia (LAZ) can give you the info you want.
They say that fish starts to rot from the head. This seems to apply to this UPNDonkey too, except that he has called it decaying and he does not seem to know that the description applies squarely and solely to his brain! He probably borrowed thevterm from someone he did not realise meant him HH, you know nasty the boys can be. Meantime he splashes cash on the person insulting him!
DID YOUR CHAGWA GET HIS LAWYERS LICENCE REVOKED FOR THEFT?? COME ON CADRES DISPUTE THIS!!
Meanwhile some donkeys suggest that ECL must humble himself and meet HH. Laughable really, whom does HH want to meet? If it is His Excellent yes he is available to meet his subjects….
kikikikiki….but if HH wants to meet Edgar Lungu sorry there is no such person anymore. Let him search in dundumwezi, the only Edgar Lungu that we knew sometime back became His Excellent on 8th August 2016, courtesy the people of 6.5 provinces.
You smell like rotten fish.
I agree with you.
There is no need for HH to want to meet ECL, why?
There are 14 million Zambians living in the country. HH can meet any of these people, why ECL?
Is HH not saying ECL is just like any of the 14 million Zambians?
HH has refused to acknowledge ECL as president, so in what capacity does he want ECL to meet him if not as a mere citizen?
Let him go to city market or Cairo Rd or Dundumwezi or Shiwang’andu and meet any out of the 14 million. It will be the same as meeting ECL or me, after all according to HH we are all mere citizens.
Chief Donkey in denial, as expected of course!
Can you tell us about lungus conviction of fraud ?
HH you don’t understand governance, you worked for a small company with few employees. You can be worse than Donald Trump . Making money through government deals like you did, doesn’t make you intelligent. Edgar Lungu is far better than you.
And what has lungu done ? Chawama is still flooded and has cholera every year. Point to one archivement for lungu apart from his fraud conviction ?
I’ve ka spaka like iitole,,,,and lungu beat ka hh not once but two times…
This is not about HH as a Person. It is about Zambia as a Constitutional Democracy. Lungu stole the 2016 Elections and is clinging to power illegally and unconstitutionally. The Petition was wrongly and illegally “dismissed” by Concourt. The Petitioners have a Right to be heard in Court no matter how long it takes. Any reputable International Court of Justice will have no difficulty in declaring that Lungu was not democratically,lawfully and Constitutionally elected and inaugurated. Lungu remains an illegitimate President of Zambia who should face Justice for committing Treason against the Zambian Constitution. HH’s comments are spot on!
Lungu did not still any vote.
Instead it was HH who wanted to still the election but failed.
Explain to me how Maureen Mwanawasa found herself with HH’s votes in a bin.
And I will tell you why HH avoided hearing his own petition.
When you cook an allegation you have to remember to cook evidence, the later being much harder to do.
Maureen refused to involve herself in fake news, and told HH to avoid creating falsehood using her name.
Many other claims and allegations failed in a similar manner as they were found to be falsehood.
This gave HH a tough time trying organise and reorganise his oven baked petition.
Hence running away from to concentrate on and invest in preliminaries which saw him run out of time.
This is how HH failed to still the elections NB…
Change still >> steal
This is how HH failed to still the elections because people such as Maureen Mwanawasa refused to participate in falsehood.
This site is proof that most tongas can’t think or use their amatole to think…They believe ka hh is a small god. Good luck mwe ngombe mwe…
POOR STRATEGY BA HH. YOU CANNOT INSULT THE JUDICIARY AND EXPECT THEM TO RULE IN YOUR FAVOUR. THEY WILL NOW PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY VERY RIGHT. DON’NT INSULT THE CROCODILE BEFORE YOU CROSS THE RIVER.
exactly my point, the court you have taken the case is the same one that is decaying day by day; ba mudala kaambani bwino, mwadya chani leleo?
HH running for president is not the same as getting a silver spoon from your unacknowledging father Andy. It takes much more as a mason and cut from the same leaf as trump you ought to know that. As you swing from court to court your family is suffering your wife children all sick of your stolen victory
very true
HH can you grow up and stop crying against anything that goes against you in good faith. One thing that I hate about HH is that anything that doesn’t work out for him or on him then it’s fake. You can’t have it all. Surly you telling me there is nothing that has worked well in Zambia, you sure you have nothing to write home about. For as long you don’t speak the truth about your own country favour will not come your way.
why do you still run to those same courts that you chant against? when its in his favour its ok…when its not ati decay…ma rubbish
Mr HH, how do you expect to be heard when you refuse to talk by hiding behind the so-called ‘preliminaries’
Is it not that you run away from your own petition after realising that Maureen Mwanawasa was not ready to defend fake news that she found your votes in a bin.
Maureen told you that she was a lawyer and not a propagator of fake news. And you could not find another person to offer and defend the idea of votes in a bin.
So you ran away from your petition because you could not cook evidence at the same rate as you managed to cook the allegations.
So, how could you be heard when you could not talk? Did you want the defendant to talk on your behalf, the way you wanted the defendant (ZNBC) to provide evidence?
At what point did you realise that being heard was important?…
HH expects people he attacks and calls names day in day out to one day vote for him or rule in favour of him. He must think himself so special. To me what I see is a Tonga tribalist, with a big ego who made his richest during privatization when a lot a Zambians died.
Epic ape stupidity.
BA PRESIDENT HH, YOU ARE STILL LIVING IN DENIAL, THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS FOR YOU AND THE ENTIRE UPND LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERS TO ACCEPT EDGAR C LUNGU AS YOUR PRESIDENT. THE OTHER THING IS TO START WORKING TOWARDS 2021. DON’T WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME AND RESOURCES MOVING FROM ONE ROTTEN COURT SESSION TO ANOTHER.
Flies are attracted to decay as HH is attracted to courts
Of late he’s been quiet but after seeing GBM taking the lime light he’s decided to de hibernate lest fatty steals the leadership.
This HH guy is now becoming very boring if not boring already…same ol’crap day in day out atase!
…And so the debate went on and on and on, but the little wooden pillock idolised by clueless newts just failed to get the simple fact that he was never meant for politics…….
Small minds can never see the truth. But remember what ever goes up will surely one day come down.
So are you acknowledging that HH has already stated coming down.
So, he has already reached the maximum height?
Meanwhile GBM has insulted Edgar at the courts even challenging the listeners to go and tell Lungu. You wonder what type of VP we were going to end up with. Bad!! as Trump would end his tweeter.
HH has run out of ideas. He is the one decaying by the day. When one dòor closes, many more are open. Just pick up the pieces and face the future. Don’t cry over spilt milk. HH is making many Zambians start wondering his motive and normality. He has even forgotten about the party itself. Its all about him and GBM. What about other members of the party. He should allow other leaders to lead the party. I think he has done his part just like ECL must leave leadership to others in 2021. We are very educated in Zambia to think that few individuals are the only presidential material. After all, in our time at UNZA students who where in sch of humanity and and social sciences where considered second class. But today you are worshipping them as lawyers and economist, rubbish.
I ve enjoyed the comments on this article, yes the upnd decaying from the heard,My advice to hh is that zambians elact presidents and not courts,the tacts of hh are fools take or not.Hh and tramp think the same way and i m enjoying the drama in usa.
Teaching Echi Echi some law.
If no one gets 50% in the first round, there will be a second round.
If after the second round Echi Echi loses and rushes to the Concourt, then and only then will the instruments of power be handed to the speaker.
Edgar Chagwa Lungu got 50% + 1 in the first round, so there was no legal basis for him to do what Echi Echi wanted.
End of lesson
Failure is proof that at least you tried. What is grave about failing is not to learn anything from it. The Feira road is one good example where failure has presented a lesson to the contractor as he now is going to look into the probable causes of the damage. Equally, HH should have learnt many things from his many attempts at Presidency which he could have used to cleanly win the election. A sitting President must be beaten by vivid margins and not speculations. If HH was to go for party elections he would loose again and that is what he is avoiding. Lungu tried and he worn and did it again. He went a step further by allowing time for the UPND to complain but even then their lawyers didn’t do a good job. In my opinion the lawyers wanted more time to suck more money from UPND and they…