Economic Front-EF president Wynter Kabimba has challenged President Hakainde Hichilema to ensure the defamation of the president law is removed if he is serious about promoting freedom of expression and guaranteeing other freedoms.
Speaking when he featured on the Friday Edition of The Phoenix FM`s Let The People Talk Programme, Mr. Kabimba described the piece of legislation as ridiculous and obnoxious and has wondered why it has not been taken before the current legislative sitting of parliament that convened on Tuesday.
Mr. Kabimba has also warned that the ills of governance perceived to have been perpetrated under the previous regime such as careerism and abuse of law enforcement agencies, may become worse under the new dawn government, by 2026, with the increasing number of such incidences witnessed in the past 5 months.
The PF leader, whose party previously named Rainbow Party entered the 2021 general elections while in a political pact with the Patriotic Front-PF, further argues that President Hakainde Hichilema has failed to deliver free education, re-instate meal allowances for university students, reduce the cost of living and cut international trips among other promises he made during campaigns.
And Mr. Kabimba says his party is ready to work with the ruling party having written to President Hakainde Hichilema and ready to engage on several matters of national interest and that the same is true for other opposition political parties.
Does Wynter not remember taking late president Sata to testifya in a court case for defamation of the President
HH is being challenged by Kabimba to remove a law. I am here asking to be educated on how a law gets repealed, I mean the process followed to repeal a law, how is the process initiated and by whom? In challenging the president I get the explanation that the president (Executive) can single handedly remove a law for why would Kabimba be challenging the president and not his party’s member of parliament (MP) if he has any to sponsor the removal of the defamation law?
I’m all for freedom of expression and all that. I don’t abuse other people because it leads to nowhere. But if people can abuse the head of state in spite of the existence of a law against that, can u imagine how it will be without the law? Has Wynter Kabimba ever thought about it this way?
Before he went into a position of power he wanted some laws repealed, he went into power and found nothing wrong with those laws and now out of power again he wants laws repealed.
Kabimba is truly a vile and gutless piece of stinking sh#t! Why didn’t he remove that piece of legislation when he was in power? I will never trust a red lipped snake, if anything I will kill it.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that you should begin to mention some body parts in their Bemba names, let alone call elders especially the President by them. Let’s moderate our language
The only thing hh knows how to do and is serious about is flying and meeting whlte people who he adores and is obsessed with. Hh spent majority of his lifetime trying to master how the whlte man speaks, dresses and behaves. Today he is in Brussels begging from them because to him only a whlte man can solve a black man’s problems. Rip R Mugabe
HH faces a tougher task than ECL because HH claimed he can resolve all of Zambia’s problems.
The easiest way to assure your parents is simply telling them that you will pass the exam. If you promise them that you will get 96%, they get frustrated with 65% even though you become the best student in college. Simply don’t promise what you can’t do. This is Africa.1
Wynter is obsessed with Bally thats all i can conclude…the office of the president should be respected above all you *****…now tell us what will happen when a law that protects the president from ridicule is removed??
@ number 2. Most of the laws that are made in parliament come from cabinet, and by extension the President.
If you have followed the last two cabinet meetings, they have suggested several new laws as well as amendments to some laws such as the Penal Code. Removal of defamation of the President as a law was equally discussed.
In short, the President can direct cabinet to repeal a law. The challenge that Kabimba presents is legit.
Winter is a lawyer but his narrative is that of a misyanga seller.
??How is law repealed? Is it by the president single handedly?
Secondly, you can’t just ask for removal of Defamation of the President alone….NOOO….
??No one should be defamed…be it President..nor Musyanga Seller …nor Grade 1 Pupil….
The proposal is not to remove the defamation of a sitting president but rather to relegate it to a civil as opposed to a criminal matter….just a bigamy aka bigger than me it is proposed should be a civil and not a criminal matter. For surely must we cage a person who loves and takes care of more than one person? Except I trust this law will apply equally to men and woman ie a woman can enter into more than one union without committing a criminal offence….
@FuMachu, spot on. Wynter Kabimba was once in government and lost the opportunity to do what he desires done today. I hear Kabimba is a lawyer. So, he should understand those who defame the head of state have a case, the Zambian law refers to it as ‘Defamation Case’.
Precedence has in Zambia, that those who defamed the head of state in the past have been jailed. Simple jail him/her who defames the head of state as long as due process of the law is satisfied. Let Kabimba’s party MPs sponsor a bill in parley to fulfil his desire to change the law. Not loud noise of involving the republican president – old politics in his days is unfit in today’s politics.
These Coachroches who once used the same laws when they were in power and did nothing to remove them should be the last ones now crying to remove them when they find themselves in opposition……..
This coming from former Justice Minister and once pwerful PF SG …I dont why some people just retire and go to the bush or just die off
@Chiza in our system even the opposition can be proactive and introduce a bill that will be debated and voted on but most times our opposition waits for the ruling party.
@Chiza in our system even the opposition can be proactive and introduce a bill that will be debated and voted on but most times our opposition waits for the ruling party. Its called Passive or firefighting opposition.
This is a chap who escorted Sata to court to sue under the same law where Sata was clearly very sick, senile and physically destroyed by cacinorma cancer. We will only repeal this law after it dances “sipelu” on Kabimba’s head!
It is very annoying when people who once served in government and were justice ministers say things like this. Did he ever propose to his President or Cabinet to remove this law?
Yes this law must be done away with. The president is a public figure and must have a thick skin. Besides as a citizen he also has the right to sue anyone who he feels has defamed him just like anyone else.
I told you that Summer Kabimba is a waste of political space with his ‘ brief case nashala neka Party’. Everyday it is HH this HH that, go and grow your Party on the ground or else you are headed for more ZEROS in 2026. You were very powerful in that criminal and gangster PF and you never suggested an amendment in the defamation against the President Law, give us a break or retire from politics ba mudala. When these bad laws serve your interests you keep quiet, when Zambians throw your backsides out then bingo, you want the same laws changed, Mr Kabimba you are such a ‘low life’.
Kabimba is a failed project. He graduated at UNZA, his employer was Sata when he was governor of Lusaka city council. Sata became his mentor, not knowing that he was just using him by providing free legal advice and court proceedings. When they formed PF government he was showed the door. Instead of teaming up with HH he teamed up with Lungu. Today as a supporter of HH defamation law has to stay.
Insulting the President or defaming the President is not what is meant by Freedom of Expression.
And Kabimba was at one time Minister of Justice, what did he do.
I totally agree with the other bloggers on this platform,Kabimba should retire from politics because he is still practising politics of 1990s.Everything he says is aimed at the President.Ba Kabimba let Bally sanitise the political space which you and PF totally contaminated……it was you guys that introduced pangas in our politics,in case you think we have forgotten.
How can a man who was once the second most powerful person in PF as Justice Minister and Secretary General demand that Bally does his dirty work for him… why did he not do it when he was in Government?? Bally and UPND are going to fix it… please give them time….they have only been in office for 6 months……