The Ndola Magistrates Court has granted celebrity photographer Chellah Tukuta a K5,000 bail in his own recognisance.
Tukuta has been in police cells for 10 days moving from dufffeng police stations between Lusaka and Ndola.
In this matter, Tukuta, 34, four counts of offences, one of which is triable by the High Court.
His Lawyer Chimuka Magubbwi complained to Ndola Magistrate Misozi Banda that it has now become fashionable for the police to over hold suspects facing misdemeanor charges.
There are fears that Chellah could be rearrested on fresh charges.
dufffeng police stations….In this matter, Tukuta, 34, four counts of offences.
Terrible editing
Zambia a once promising young African country just be derailed by the PF. We feel for you. It is very sad. Africa must be progressing now. Strange that ruling party people can assemble, can petition, can demonstrate but the opposition completely denied. ZNBC is theirs only, and they sleep very okay every night, very strange indeed.
it is concerning to see that the government is far much worse than the colonial masters going by what history teaches and also by stories shared to us form those living at the time.
Sensible sense tells us that the current president is the one letting all this to happen. This is in sharp contrast to common belief that the president is being misled. Looking and listening to the president’s speech, it is evident that he is fully aware that there is blatant disregard to the law by officials in his government.
thief chilufya chitalu was granted bail same day with serious offences which in other countries attracts death penalty. Chellah with misdemeanor charges is made to spend 10 days in cells.welcome to zambia!!
The problem in Zambia is that when the time to punish those abusing State Institutions comes, some people will still side with them. The Police can’t hold anybody for that long without the knowledge of their Minister and the Commander in Chief. So don’t direct your anger at wrong people, they’re just following instructions.
The law is the Law. The allegations against this childish loose cannon photographer are different from those against dr chilufya. So to expect the same outcomes in relation to bail is just plain ignorant. This small boy has a long list of allegations from various people in different parts of the country so the courts have followed procedure and dealt with this thr right way. We have confidence that justice shall be served. Kz
KZ needs psychotic treatment to be normal. Note; he has tangent views on every story that come on this site. He qualifies as a guinea pig for diagnostic training. Since he is in UK but thinks positively is in Zambia is one evidence of being MAD. KZ will be sectioned and put in isolation for his and other people safety.
At least a “Celebrity” is out. But agony to the “noncelebrities” the NGO do not show concern. I tell you, this NGO world is very unfair except you are a political cadre or their sympathizer. I look up to heaven…..where does my help come from?
KZ wait, the law will visit you and all your stupidity will end. God made seasons, and your season to face pelete is nearing.
The boy has learnt a lesson. Hopefully he is intact. Those thieves in the cells are merciless. Hopefully he carried vaselene with him.
Another own goal for Lungu and his PF government. Just as they did to HH they have now made Chellah much stronger, he has also seen first hand the conditions of the cells. Viva youth power, One Zambia One Nation.
TOLE KZ WHETHER U MOCK HIM ATLEAST WE ARE SEEING THROUGH HIS STRUGGLE HIS ABLE TO FEED HIS FAMILY WHEN U ARE JUST BUSY BOASTING FOR NOTHING.AMAFI CHABE CHABE
@MunaDekhane, please ignore KAIZER ZULU comments, the man is an empty tin and that is why he makes a lot of noise. His prison uniform is being prepared as we speak.
Ale tukana nakafuti. A good lesson learnt. This brat will now know to respect elders, especially women.
I can tell you, come your court date, carry a bag with you coz you are going to jail.
There are many faults with Chellah. But he has shown an extraordinary level of patriotism. You can fault him for many issues in his life. But when the history books are written and mention is made of the lungu era, Chellah will be on the right side of history. He acted selflessly, fearlessly and patriotically.
Its unfortunate the the police are spineless amd allow themselves to be used by politicians. We have a police force that has no respect for the law. Instead they have allowed themselves to be used as instruments of accomplishing unjust ends
There was no need of taking him to the cells at all. Trying yo silence the youth won’t make any difference.
Corruption is rampant and you arrest the one voicing it out and yet the perpetrators are walking the streets.
Edgar Lungu and his crooks must be sensible sometimes.
PF must go!
Kenneth Kaunda always used to say ignorance is more deadly than any disease. If this guy defamed anybody, it is not the states issue, it is the allegedly defamed people to take it up. And maybe the defamed guys know it is true, defamation is a personal issue. What is difficult pamene up kansi?
He has been re=arrested already. Check with Zambia Reports Online..
Lungu was forced to realse him after that article on LT that put his photo side by side with the minister of health….
When i see his mouth especially his ugly teeth i always think of the ”binz” that stuck between is gap
Scarlet
Why are you intrested in his mouth ?
He also has a long tongue.
WHERE DOES THIS E A C H
C O L O U R CALLED KAZEIR ZULU GET THE AUDACITY?
Re arrested again….what do you expect in Province headed by the biggest bootlicking dwarf in ZP Charity Katanga
In as much as i dont agree what he is going through, he should also learn something from all these. You can’t be a hero when you insult or dare the Govt.when you insult a woman you’re also insulting your mother, even the mother or wife of that lawyer who is representing you. Look at your friend pilato, he said the youths all over Zambia will demonstrate. Apart from 20 youths in Lusaka in the bush, the whole country was relatively quiet. It is a message to pilato that the youth are not with you. Not even the children of those politicians attended his protest. Just imagine that today, govt is recruiting, do you think the youth would remember that there is Chellah and be in solidality with him or go for interviews. My advise to you Chella is grow up.
Tukuta I for one don’t like you. But over your freedom of speech iam with you all the way. The PF and even the MMD are both freedom of speech muzzlers who know nothing about democracy. That’s why people like Dora fit into both oppressive parties very well
Chella, I admit it is extremely difficult to go through what these P.F rogue brute excuses for politicians have put you through, BUT STAY STRONG!!
Yours is a just & noble cause unlike J0na’s Cabal of thieving vampires & believe soon this Kimpy0ngo -sorry excuse for a Home Affairs Minister, Kan(g@nja) & Kitalu Kilufya, Cheeseboy B0wboy & other thieving P.F Thugs WILL SEE THE INSIDE OF PRISON & they WILL need Vaseline as all their fleas & psycophants currently protecting them, including their Chief Omega of Corruption J0n@ Mukula 1, will not be there to protect them from Prisoner abuse.
Lastly, P.F.MUSTGOTOPRISON!
Apparently he has been re-arrested soon after release. He was detained longer than the law requires before one is brought before the courts – for bailable offences. So much use of resources and zeal on this matter when no meaningful action is ever taken against ‘big wigs’, PF politicians and their bootlickers who commit crimes with impunity – not to mention breaches of the Constitution and a failure to act within expected values and morals. They stand on hills every day and proclaim the ‘rule of law’ which they never abide to.
TUKUTA CHELLA IS BETTER BECAUSE HE STOOD BY HIS CONSCIENCE. HE IS UNLIKE THOSE FEEBLE MINDED GOONS WHO SAY “LEAVE ACTIVISM TO ACTIVIST, CONCENTRATE ON YOUR MUSIC OR PHOTOGRAPHY OR ON YOUR STUDIES EVEN IF POLITICS AFFECTS YOU.” BUSH PROTESTS BY MUSICIANS HAS LED THE TIGHT-FISTED PF GOVT TO RELEASE PEANUTS FOR THE ARTISTS AND YOUTHS IN THE FORM OF k30M WHICH IS JUST US$1.5M FOR ALL THE 10 MILLION YOUTHS IN ZAMBIA. BETTER MUST COME!
THE PF and its foolish leaders , they are no more , wait and see , come 2021