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HH appears in Luanshya Magistrate Court, complains about his transfer from Mukobeko to Luanshya

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HH speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka on Sunday
FILE: HH speaking at a press briefing in Lusaka on Sunday

Incarcerated opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has complained to the Luanshya Magistrate Court over the manner he was moved from Mukobeko Maximum Prison to Luanshya.

Mr. Hichilema, through his lawyer Chimuka Magubbwi of Magubbwi and Associates of Ndola said the prison authorities lured him that he needed to see his lawyers when infact not.

This is in a matter in which Mr. Hichilema and his Vice Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba are jointly charged with unlawful assembly.

The matter has since been adjourned to August 28, 2017 for continued trial.

Police sources have indicated that Mr Hichilema has now been taken to Kamfisa state prison.

“Before we conclude on date, we want to address the court. The manner in which our client was moved from Mukobeko Prison to here is not good. He was called around 06:00 Hours and told that he needed to talk to his lawyers yet they were bringing him here. And also what is the interest of the police when our client is before the hands of the prison authorities? Our client is concerned of his security. Why are the police and other agencies interested? We wanted to inform the court,” Mr. Magubbwi said.

The state later applied for adjournment and the defence did not object.

However, Magistrate John Mbuzi said he was not comfortable with the dates that were suggested by the defence.

” I am not comfortable with those dates. It is for the good of the accused to have this date near and conclude this matter. So if we are not sure when the treason case will start, we better bring this matter so we finish. Find a date that is near,” Magistrate Mbuzi said.

Mr. Hichilema arrived at the magistrate court at 11:10 hours amid tight security.

Immediately the matter was called before Magistrate John Mbuzi.

The state applied that the matter be adjourned because the lead state advocate was in Lusaka attending to another matter in the Supreme Court.

Mr Hichilema has been in jail from April 10 on a charge of treason and has spent time at Chimbokaila and Mukobeko Maximum Prison.

115 COMMENTS

    • If hh can engage lawyers who are not tongas his cases would’ve dealt with along time ago. How many times are we going to advise this low life criminal. Keep on surveying all the prisons until you contract hiv or tb if you are lucky.

    • celebrating anyone’s predicament is pure evil…not even your worst enemy. I have repeatedly stated that I don’t support PF nor UPND because they are capitalists but even for ECL, if HH did this to him, I would feel bad. I don’t agree that its HH who should have been locked up for that stupid, disrespectful and careless traffic offense but punishing a passenger leaves a sour taste in my sweet mouth.

    • @HH OVAL HEAD, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU ARE AN EVIL SPIRIT IN A HUMAN BODY. YOU BELONG TO THE DARK WORLD OF EVIL SPIRITS LIKE MOST PF IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP. ZAMBIANS SHOULD PRAY HARD SO THAT THE COUNTRY CAN BE EXORCISED OF THESE EVIL SPIRITS THAT HAVE EVADED OUR COUNTRY. THEY ARE NOW EVEN PENETRATING THE CHURCH IN FORM OF BISHOPS AND PASTORS. NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS CANNOT REJOYCE WHEN ONE OF THEIRS IS SUFFERING BUT THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH PF MEMBERS. THEY ARE SO BLOOD-THIRSTY THAT THEY OPENLY CALL FOR BLOODSHED EVEN IN PARLIAMENT. PF ARE CRIMINAL SADISTS.

    • @1.6: manomambulwa: No need for Zambians to pray hard and fear these “evil spirits”, they just need to vote….and last time they voted, they chose PF…kwekwekwekwekwekwe…

    • The way HH is being treated is despicable.I can’t imagine how ordinary Zambians accused of crime suffer at the hands of the police. You were quick to throw HH in prison so there is surely enough proof to bring this matter to trial speedily.Our law makers should look into abolishing useless laws that do not serve Zambia any purpose. Treat HH with the dignity he deserves.He is innocent till proven guilty. Every dog has it’s day.Look at our passed leaders who thought they would rule forever.

    • Where’s is Luanshya? In Masaiti? This is hilarious! Keeping moving till 2021. this is too funny

    • What makes you think I’m using different names? Maybe there are a lot of people who think like me. Just check with ZCTA to confirm this

    • Edgar Lungusha Changwa is an evil hard hearted muslim who deserves to be locked for good once he leaves office.
      And one of the cases which should see him locked for good is the $1 billion case he got involved in between ZCCM holding company and the mines.

    • @HH Oval Head,
      You have killed me on one this 1-0. Ati TB if he is lucky lol lol. With the way things are going, he may find himself in Alcatraz Prison or the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

    • Quote However, Magistrate John Mbuzi said he was not comfortable with the dates that were suggested by the defence.

      I am not comfortable with those dates. It is for the good of the accused to have this date near and conclude this matter.

      Justice delayed, is justice denied. According to this quotation who is denying HH justice? HIS LAWYERS.

    • @Zambian Citizen,

      Can you please explain what Boma Ni Boma means? It seems to suggest that the government is at liberty to ignore the law and do whatever suits them to suppress their opponents. Am I right?

    • @London Eye: hh had a case in Luanshya so the Prison Service took him near that town, what is unlawful about that action??? He is facing a non-bailable offence so he is in the hands of the same service, LOOKS VERY NORMAL AND LAWFUL TO ME!!!!

    • @Zambian Citizen

      Please can you explain what Boma Ni Boma means? It seems to suggest that those with power in government are at liberty to ignore the law and suppress their opponents as they wish. Am I right?

    • am PF but i dont support this nonsense our govt is doing honestly how can be treating your fellow zambian like this as he has stlen something from your mothers village

    • @Zambian Citizen – I pray that you or anyone of your dear ones will never have to experience what HH has and is going through. There is a God above … and he is not sleeping! Each dog has its day!

    • ZamZam @ 4.6

      This has nothing to do with PF. If one commmits a crime expect the law to function. Off course one would speculate that HH’s jail shopping is political but think about other people in jail who constantly experience the same. Are you invoking your emotions simply because it’s HH?

  1. Kiki ati he was lured that his lawyers want to see him kanshi they are taking him to lya and he believed them. When we say hh is an under5 this is what we mean. How can an elderly full grown up man surely be duped like that? Kiki this dude is clueless and not a type of a leader we need. Next they will dupe him on a lollipop and he will find himself back at mukobeko.

    • oval head …. under SOE do you think he has a choice ? Did he even have a choice in being taken to Mukobeko? I mean, really even if you hate the man try to be sensible at times it shouldn’t be open “gullet” blind despise. Anyway even the most well meaning people have always had your type against them … such is the world

  2. Guys seriously this is not how you treat a fellow human being…You have made your point this is enough….just let go HH go home to his family…..how can you people be so cold hearted…..and you call you selves a Christian country….
    HH be strong I am praying for you….

    • Is Zambia really a christian nation?muslin countries are better off than this country called a christian nation.its full of corrupt, unforgiving,drunkards,thieves…

    • Have you ever visited a prison? If you’ve never, please do so and see what deplorable conditions our people live in. ..and HH is one of our people. Simply put let’s advocate for humane treatment of all prisoners

  3. And some people are finding this to be funny and feeding off joy from this….this is cruelty….I don’t consider Zambia a Christian nation anymore…

    • even a muslim nation is better than this country.a country full of hypocrites, thieves and bishops are the ones in the fore front…

  4. It’s a busy year for the under 5 president. You used to brag that the police and other authorities were weak and clueless. How do you insult the police, judiciary, the speaker and the president and hope for favours from them?

    • You are the kind of people who beat your wives to show that you are strong…Amn not partisan but see this as sign of weakness on the part of the authorities brother @Dance and this is deliberate ploy to annoy his supporters so that they end up committing crimes. Stay strong UPND supporters!

  5. Why cant the 20 lawyers ask for trail to start since they are 100% sure there client is innocent….just eating the mans money while he suffers in jail.SMH

    • The Lawyers have limited powers at the moment. No High judge wants to take the Treason Case so here we go..! This case will take as long as 2021

  6. Why didn’t LT put the real picture of hh in Luanshya yesterday, I would have loved to see him pleading to the judge…where is that thunderous crowd from Mongu???…kwekwekwekwekwe…..

    • @ Zambian 1mbecile

      I just pray that the rest of Zambians are not infected, like you, with genetically induced 1mbecility

  7. Don’t insult the where on earth is lawlessness with impunity allowed
    U donot rule through the a tribal window
    If other tribes start behaving the way u behave where will this country go to.

    MM

  8. People there’s no tribalism here. .just a Zambian who’s an accused person not yet convicted. There’s no tribe that’s not represented in our prisons.

  9. Only in Zambia do we see a passenger being given a treason case for a passenger in a car whose driver is found with a traffic offence. Well, what can one say?? God is still on the throne. We wait and see.

  10. ADMIN please help me, my name is getting longer and longer as this Political clown is move from Prison to prison,
    BOMA NI BOMA lelo HH a biliva kapala !

  11. ALL I CAN IS CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU HATERS OF HH AND THE TONGA PEOPLE. IF GOD REALLY CREATED US TONGA PEOPLE, THEN HE IS SEEING AND LISTENING. HE IS MIGHTY AND SOVEREIGN

    CONGRATULATION PEOPLE

  12. Cursed continent. Very sad!!! No wonder the French President said the problem of Africa is civilization. You can even tell from comments here. A fake Christian nation!!!!

  13. I HOPE HH CAN LEARN FROM THE BIBLE AS IT SAYS THE FOLLOWING:
    I Peter 2:16 ” Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil”
    I Peter 2:20 ” But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and you endure it?”

  14. Unfortunately The precedent (The winner takes it all) is being set…I can see MR LUNGU being treated like that whether by HH or any future president. WHO THOT LEVY WOULD TURN AGAINST CHILUBA//

  15. @Chewe,try to twist your brain a little bit more, we always read about all the bad things a lot of you say about Lungu ,but we don’t see Lungu do the things you accuse him of but because he in charge and so was hh incharge of that limulunga incident, don’t play the game with double standards, bwana.

    • All bad is heaped on ECL by United Despotic Peoples’ Nation [UDPN],,, why not accept that HH was duly in-charge of that crew as their commander-in-thief [CIT]. Guys also read the Oath of Affirmation – you swear to restrain your supporters and/or cadres….. He is responsible!

    • @ imaginary “non partisan”

      Only “twisted brain” like yours can mention “double standards”.
      Bwana, which standards you are referring to? Constitutional? Humanitarian? Moral? Legal?
      And you are Citizen of a Christian nation? More likely brainless chief arse l1cker and co.ck sucker

  16. Ken, not all the bembas and nyanjas are evil people. Within these there are others that are really good people, in every ethnic group you find extreme cases and it’s unfortunate we have the extremist in the ruling class

  17. @24 Zambian, unfortunately it doesnt work that way. President Lungu is acting according to the law. He has been tolerant for far too long and UPNDonkeys and their leader underfive donkey took this for weakness. The President acts and the same donkeys are crying. The President is acting on behalf of me and the rest of the 50%+1 Zambians who put him there. If you have an issue talk to us, not him. Let me assure that your theory could work only if we were not talking about donkey here.

  18. NO PROTEST HERE….. NO RIOTS JUST Take HH wherever you deem fit – No riots GUYS ….! ZAMBIANS ARE STAYING PUT

  19. What are they going to do when he has an accident and lives are lost…doesnt Lazy Lungu think these things through. Does he think HH supporters will believe him? The caliber of leaders we have today are just a disappointment. Why Zambia?

  20. Lungu called for popular consultations to decide if the country should make this move. An overwhelming 93.3 percent of people who participated in the consultations said they supported remaining with the ICC. We were there to see that the government officially reported and committed to abiding by the consultation results. We were heartened to see how much the people of Zambia cared about justice.Lungu should keep in mind that stripping people of their rights will not solve Zambia’s problems. It will only make them worse.
    Region / Country Africa Zambia/ Human Rights Group Paris

  21. Where is Zambia’s President Heading?
    Lungu’s Power-Grab Threatens Freedom and Rights
    Dewa Mavhinga
    Dewa Mavhinga
    Southern Africa Director
    Dewamavhinga
    Bruno Stagno Ugarte
    Bruno Stagno Ugarte
    Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy
    @BrunoStagno

  22. Zambians watch and don nothing – Lungu will soon get tired of ferrying HH across the country. DO NOT PROTEST – JUST SIT ON YOUR HANDS AND WATCH. PF have run out of ideas and are trying to cause havoc..! IGNORE IT ALL

  23. ……turning to underfive and his prison tourism, he put chose to be in prison. Let him enjoy himself. Chimbokaila- Mukobeko- Chimbokaila-Mukobeko-Luanshya-Mukobeko with a stop over in Kamfinsa….and I hear that he is even accorded chopper flights, now that should fulfil his dream of being like President Lungu. But wait, not exactly, I mean underfive hh is a Kaili isnt he?

  24. @31, moving underfive around without warning is part of security. That makes it more difficult to attempt an escape operation by UPNDonkeys while at the same time ensuring tgat he attends court in various towns without fail. And anyway why did he have to commit felonies in every corner of Zambia? The little donkey is lucky that his treason case is in Lusaka. Imagine if he had to travel to Mongu and other places where he planned his felonies?
    Finally, Jay Jay, if he died it would be entirely his fault for choosing to reside in Mukobeko.

  25. Asked for it! Look at his supporters! Clueless, delusional, hating, tribal, negative, unthankful, unappreciative, destructive and failure to accept defeat! Maybe a spirit!

  26. The state can take him anywhere they want. It is a normal practice. Especially for an uneducated opposition leader bent on harming the nation.

  27. Matthew 25:41-43
    Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

  28. But why does HH only hire tonga lawyers?hey tribalism for this man is in his blood.if HH became Zambian president,all Govnt workers from cleaner to minister would be tongas and a few from 2.5 provinces(western,n/western and part of central)!!
    PLEASE ZAMBIAN VOTERS OPEN YOUR EYES!!HH IS A GREAT DANGER TO A UNITED ZAMBIA!!almost everyone around HH are tonga except GBM!!HEY HH REALLY SHOCKS ME!!
    But its better this way because HH keeps on opening our eyes and come 2021 we shall vote like the way they vote in dundumwezi in favour of PF!!

  29. Does he have a choice where to go? Kailis cant choose, he is a kaili isnt he?

    But anyway bring him back to Mukobeko its more central to some of us in case we want to sue him too.

  30. Lungu this, Lungu that – did he just wake up one day and decided to lock someone up? Why is it difficult for you people to take stock of your actions? You wanted to create a state of lawlessness and you have met your match. You called him all sorts of names – he was just looking at you until you went too far.

  31. Kamfinsa, make sure you give underfive a bucket. He has travelled a lot and may develop stomach upset…..ati shikki…

  32. Obasanjo asked RB to back HH – African Confidential Report

    Watchdog
    3 years ago
    Unlike the distorted version published elsewhere, here is the full article published by Africa Confidential on the alleged attempt by the Oppenheimer mining dynasty in South Africa and former Nigerian President Obasanjo to make RB and Nevers Mumba back HH for the presidency.

    The article clearly states that former president Rupiah Banda was being asked to be ‘godfather of HH, and that he agreed but backed out when he was told to sign.

    Note also that one of the longstanding correspondents for African confidential in Zambia is former State House spokesperson Dickson Jere.

    Dignitaries and South African businessmen are trying to unite the opposition against the Patriotic Front

    A group of…

  33. Bloggers, whether PF cadres or UPND cadres, please cease fire. Time for campaigns and mud slinging is long gone. Let’s all rise above partisan politics and stand in unison as Zambian citizens with the interest of our country at heart. Like H.E ECL suggested in his Conference to the Nation, HH’s treason case must be taken to Court ASAP so that whatever the outcome, we can move forward as a Nation. In RSA, they citizens are calling for a National Indaba to find solutions to their country’s problems, why can’t we do the same?

  34. @ MULENGA IF YOU think moslem country is better than Zambia then go to Sudan, if you think whatever you call is yours and your family that it stinks so much tonga sweat. HH has several cases even GBM has few assault and arson cases HH is strong in prison no doubt

  35. Thank you Kalenga for responding. I read and analyze these comments. All comments posted by mostly bembas and my fellow nyanjas about HH are so heartless and evil. My fellow bloggers and Zambians let’s have love for one another. It doesn’t cost money to have a kind heart for one another. Life is too short to be cruel and evil minded.

  36. It’s plain and simple, Lungu is playing with fire. It’s clear to any person with a reasonable mind that if anything happens to this man in jail Zambia will be plunged in terrible civil strife that could split it right in the middle. Nowhere in any civilized country can a mere traffic offense be treason especially when the accused wasn’t driving. It’s wanton evil amounting to gutless stupidity that only endangers national security unnecessarily.

  37. One day this fake Christian called Lungu and his fake ministers who call themselves Christians shall pay for their evils to HH and the Zambian people;

  38. 21.9 Ati the treatment HH is receiving is despicable… Just because he was lured(which could have been for a good reason-Mind u Boma has intelligence) Can this be compared with burning people’s livelihood. You are jokers. Complaining so bitterly like he was asked to frog jump all the way to Luanshya and yet it was just being lured, My foot. The magistrate did not even comment.

  39. @ 28 and 30. That is the way to go. I recommend u take over the leadership. GBM is a mafia, he has even thought HH but becoz HH is an amateur it has landed him in trouble.

  40. THERE IS NO CRISIS IN ZAMBIA. WE ONLY HAVE A FEW PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO GET IN POWER AT ALL COST WHO HAVE THE MONEY AND SOME FORM OF INFLUENCE WHICH THEY ARE USING TO DISCREDIT THE PF AFTER LOSING ELECTIONS. IN THEIR QUEST FOR TONGA TRIBAL SUPREMACY THEY CONNIVED WITH GREG MILLS AND THE OPPENHEIMER FAMILY OF RSA TO TAKE OVER POWER IN ZAMBIA. GREG MILLS USING ANGLO-AMERICAN Co WAS PROMISED A BIG SHARE OF THE MINES IN ZAMBIA SO HE FUNDED HHs CAMPAIGNS. UNFORTUNATELY HH LOST. AND THAT PLAN HAS FLOPPED. HH IS TRYING TO FIND WAYS OF MAKING HIMSELF RELEVANT TO GREG MILLS AND THE OPPENHEIMER FAMILY. HE PROMISED ARMAGEDDON IF HE LOSES AND WE ARE SEEING A SEMBLANCE OF THAT. PEOPLEs HOMES BURNT, COURTS TORCHED, DEBS OFFICES TORCHED, MARKETS TORCHED, ZESCO PYLONS CUT. HE HAS TRIED TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST…

  41. And very soon on October 18 someone in Govtment will call for National Day of prayers?That Zambia for you.

  42. PF IS FAILLING – I’m not scared of little flies in PF who want me fired, I deal with the party chairman – Kasolo

  43. PFDonekys cadres get educated and learn the statute and know the law
    Alliance for Community Action (ACA) Executive Director Laura Miti says it was illogical for President Edgar Lungu to base the Threatened State of Emergency declaration on the recent fires, instead of basing it on the lack of intolerance between the PF and UPND cadres. And Miti says President Lungu is not helping Zambians to get out of the election mode by consistently talking about Hakainde Hichilema’s election defeat whenever he is addressing the public.

    • @Nkole, she clearly is wrong because the constant destruction of Public or Private Property is grounds enough to declare an emergency. Furthermore Political discord in Zambia has given rise to o this arson. It ties in both ways no matter how you call it in.

  44. @Shameless – HH was supposed to go to court in Luanshya so why should he question whoever was in charge of making sure he reaches Luanshya? Is it a must that a lawyer should be there when being moved? What about others are they being accompanied by their lawyers when going to court? Was he expecting a Ndola based lawyer to come to Mukobeko and then back to Luanshya? HH shouldn’t expect to be treated otherwise, jail conditions are applied to everybody no matter how rich one can be, especially if you are in bad books with the police. Like HH who has been insulting everybody.

  45. @31 – Jay Jay you have said an accident so it will be an accident and nothing will happen but let us hope for the best HH’s should not be found in any accident not even a scratch on his body, being where he is, is enough punishment, until when he graduates from being under 5 and starts thinking straight.

  46. The sad fact about HH us that he is the perfect Epitome of wasted Talent and Potential.

    Truly, he now spends his working hours going into courts trying to overcome his nightmarish decent into the pits of Human Existence; one where personal Freedom, Agency is removed to be replaced by Robotic state control. Why oh why could he not just swallow his pride at losing countless elections. He is not the first politician to need ‘working and chipping away at it,’ to get what you want. Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln who tried (8), EIGHT TIMES to win Presidential elections. Correct me if wrong.

  47. Let the law take it’s course, let the lawless know that the law has to be obeyed even by the rich thieves who want to be above the law. We want to enjoy our peace in Zambia not tribalism and terrorism. Africa twasebana.

  48. @56 you are right! He wanted to print ballot papers in South Africa (where the Union connections are too) but GRZ came to know about it and changed where to print from. The guy was so desperate for power that he wanted to do everything to get it! He once was entrusted with privatization and he became very rich! You know how? Kickbacks! What could happen if you made that guy in charge of Zambia’s wealth? Guess! I think he should pay the guys who funded his campaign from the money he got from privatization because he will never go to statehouse – NEVER!

  49. Those who have relatives incarcerated without trial for a long period of time like HH, perhaps understand why some of us continuously warn that we have a government of hoodlums that have no aorta of humanity or sense of justice or understand what civility is – as long as they share the spoils of their ill-gotten governance. Some excuses of human beings here think detaining an opposition leader indefinitely on a trumped up charge is something to behold. The reason why the so-called treason trial has not taken off is because this is a case of clear persecution and endeavour to break one’s spirit – apart from the fact that there is no evidence to proceed and convict. This government is in a dilemma. If they ‘purchase’ the justices to ensure HH’s conviction, it will be obvious – if they…

  50. When I read comments from the likes of Sharon, HH oval head, terrible, Nubian princess etc. I shudder. How far are they representative of the Zambian ‘leadership’ or advocacy thinking? Is this how low Zambia has sunk? Because with the likes of these characters, the country is doomed. They represent retrogression and a despicable perception of what it means to be human.

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