Monday, May 13, 2024

Continued Detention of Mumbi Phiri without Trial is unacceptable-HH

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President Hakainde Hichilema has described the continued detention of former Patriotic Front-PF Deputy Secretary General Mumbi phiri without trial as unacceptable and has suggested judicial reforms to address such injustices.

The head of state however disclosed that Mrs Phiri’s arrest was pending before the change of government last year and has accused the police command then, of playing double standards by not following the law on the matter while disclosing that he too, has been asking questions around her prolonged detention without seeing a judge.

Speaking at State House during a special edition of the Red Hot Breakfast Show this morning, President Hichilema wondered why she was not arrested sooner based on the video in which she insinuated that she was at the crime scene and that her failure to report the crime was in itself a crime as well.

The President says there is need to unblock the justice delivery, offload the back log of cases and to ensure each high court at least has a resident judge as opposed to currently where there are no resident judges in many places.

And the President has reiterated the need for constitutional reforms to stop by elections and ensure parliamentary tenure of office runs for a full 5 years, disclosed that cabinet has approved changes to the public order act which is currently under consultations and that the Constituency Development Fund-CDF act will be amended to speak to current needs with enhanced CDF.

Meanwhile, the President has advised those summoned by the joint investigative team to explain the source of their wealth, to answer queries saying he too was answerable several times when in opposition once during which the death of Nsama Nsama and Joseph Kaunda occurred.

40 COMMENTS

  1. Killing a fellow human being remains a murder case. HH has no any right at all to interfeer in any murder juridical process. At the hand of these criminals a lot of lives were lost.
    Let also killers like Bouwman Lusambo be arrested and charged. That is what we Zambians are waiting for. No one use ever be above the law. If the present leadership shields these criminals,
    the future leadership shall still deal with them.

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    • I completely agree. What HH is doing is completely wrong, and shows that he is worried about his future political fortunes. He should interfere in the way the justice ministry does its job. Full stop

    • I doubt if this is the same Kaizer Zulu. Why not report the imposter to police? because this person was in the corridors of power and to insult a sitting head of state is an offense. That is totally unacceptable on this forum or elsewhere

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    • Mumbi Phiri should have been arrested. Bowman Lusambo should have been arrested. You Kaizar Zulu should be arrested. Edgar Chaga Chakolwa Lungu aka Jonathan Mutawire should be arrested. No person implicated in the murder of another should be gallivanting scot free. You should be in jail without bail, to wait however long it takes the criminal justice system you created takes to bring you before a judge.

    • I don’t agree with Kaizer Zulu most of the time, nor do I approve of his insults. But I can defend his right to free speech and oppose anybody that would want to silence him. He has a right to free speech. Let the man speak!!!!!

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    • You can never win with you what ever he would have said you were not gonna accept…you are like a a noisy Roaster!!

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    • Win what. The man is behind all these detentions and you want to win what? Anyway Dr Mmembe has got a name for your type.

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    • I do not understand this language. I do however see that you have used the word payback. No, there is no payback here. That ugly hag, Mumbi Phiri, is in jail for boasting about murdering a UPND supporter on a video. Her own arrogance has come to haunt her. There is nothing to see or debate. The ugly thing is where it needs to be. HH should be where he needs to be; which is completely out of the running of the law

  2. Payback what ???

    Your brutality and savagery against the opposition ???

    Repent and you will be freed………..

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    • Just sit down…. so he’s talked about this case and tomorrow we see Mumbi Phiri being released what are you going to say. Don’t continue being a child… your man is fully involved in this vengeance act.

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  3. It’s good that you’ve spoken about this. However, your Minister of Justice doesn’t think that there’s anything wrong with what’s being done to Mumbi Phiri. He’s the person that’s supposed to oversee the reforms you’ve talked about. Some of us think that you have never forgiven Mumbi for saying teti tuvotele ing’ombe. And your assertion that she was supposed to have been arrested long ago is offside. If Mumbi claimed to have been present during that murder it makes her a witnessed and not a suspect. It’s only one person that committed murder in that case. You’ll also leave office one day and we’ll stand by you should you be unfairly treated, just we did when you were detained. You have already shown bias in the enforcement of the Law. Can you follow those that killed Bembas in…

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  4. All members of a gang of murders are guilty………..

    Even if you did not pull the trigger……….

    You are as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger, you facilitated the murder………..

    You are an accomplice to murder……..

    Worse still , you Shield the one who pulled the trigger…..,…..

    You did not report the murder because you were part of the murder………..

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  5. There’s a need to unblock the justice delivery….Don’t you know what s blocking it? It’s blocked by the appointed judges’ fear of losing their jobs if they anger the sitting president. The same fear blocks ZP from acting against corruption by sitting cabinet members. The same fear blocks ZNBC from reporting about corruption by the sitting cabinet. In short although Zambia professes to be a democracy the Presidency still clings to second republic authoritarianism. Power is still centralized in the presidency. He still appoints and fires everyone from senior civil servants to judges. He still holds on to colonial bullying implements such as the presidential defamation law. The fear of the presidency creates an ideal atmosphere for corruption as fear of one man means otherauthorities…

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    • You may have a point there. I wonder though whether issues dealing with reduction of presidential powers would not require a constitutional amendment which is not up to the president alone. Regarding the presidential defamation law, I think he dealt with this adequately. It would be fair to wait to see what the legal reform committee will come up with. If it is not addressed, then your accusation will hold water.

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    • And ydiots like Spaka can’t see this…judges and police are stiff scared of the president…they have seen how ruthless he’s been with who been professional in their duties.

  6. The fear of the presidency creates an ideal atmosphere for corruption as fear of one man means otherauthorities can be ignored And one can manipulate those in fear by falsely using the president’s name.

  7. No one arrested HH when he was in opposition for the source of his wealth and The president todate has not declared his full wealth

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    • No one arrested him, but he was investigated…………

      Clean as KKs handkerchief……..

      They tried , but could not pin anything on him……..

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  8. When someone lies with a straight face just know that you are in trouble. I am not sure who is supposed to believe this story. HH should have either kept quite or taken longer to speak about this issue, because even villagers know what had been going own behind the scenes. So please spare us these lies.

  9. HH you have finally gotten the feedback from Northern, Eastern and Munchinga that support for you has dropped drastically. Well its too late, the people and chiefs from these areas will make sure you you don’t get the 1 million votes they gave you.

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  10. Spaka which investigation on HH was concluded ?the man has not given a straight answer on his source of his wealth be real

    • Sata , PLM , RB ……..MTSRIP…….

      and lungu, especially lungu…….

      All investigated HH……all tried and tried to pin shi.t on HH , especially lungu…………

      Nothing……was found. If 4 GRZs failed to find any dirt on HH……….

      Just give up, there is nothing to be found …………

      This is where we are……..

      even FBI , Scotland Yard or who ever will never find and sh.it to pin on HH……..

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    • There is 2 possibilities……..

      Either the man is too sharp………

      Shaper than 4 previous whole governments ,………

      Who could find Jack sh.it on him…..

      too sharp for the lot of you…….

      Or………

      He clean , …………

      Chose which one………..

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    • In any case all documents have been destroyed…I went to look for my birthday record at Nchanga Hospital, nobody would find because all records have been removed to give room to other things. Now what more about sensitive records?

  11. Sentiments recently expressed by politicians in Zimbabwe as regards the prolonged detention of Hon. Mumbi Phiri reveal that the whole world knows about the atrocities that have evolved in Zambia since the August 2021 elections. Concerns from Zimbabwe have hit hard on the conscience of UPND leadership. However, the UPND Govt has devised a system of “DIVISION OF LABOUR”. (1) The most top leadership pronounce HOLY messages to the world so as to portray themselves as BISHOPS. (2) On the other hand some Ministers, IG of Police, Directors of ACC & DEC and some UPND carders have been assigned tasks to execute the DIRTY role of persecution of perceived political enemies. This kind of governance will prompt ALL Zambians to live in FEAR for the next 3-years.

    • Unfortunately USA and Allies are not bothered like they used when Upnd were victim. It’s gratifying that the Kenyan people rejected a puppet like Raila Odinga

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  12. Mumbi Phiri or no Mumbi Phiri, what all of you tribalists of MMD and PF need to remember is that the first people to revolt against the English in Northern Rhodesia were the people of the South. We did not do it for power; we did it because we cherish freedom. When Kaunda and his friends stabbed Nkumbula in the back, we still supported them. When the broke Kaunda and his broke friends wanted to go to England to negotiate with the English, we sold 10, 000 cows to pay for their trip. When UNIP was tied at 45% with the white party in the election of 1963, we gave them ANC’s 10% so they could form government and end colonialism. We supported tribal unity because we understood that unity is strength. Yet when you got power in 1991, you reintroduced tribalism; In the resulting division, the…

  13. ..continued… In the resulting tribal division, the homosexual Lebanese, the scheming Chinese and the Machiavellian white people swooped in and took away our land. In essence, you gave back everything we gave you in the liberation struggle. Basically, you have sold out the country, because you were more interested in suppressing other Zambians than protecting and promoting the interests of the Zambian people; You had no problem ceding emerald mines to father of Elon Mask; closing ZCBC and replacing it with Shoprite; defunding Zambia Airways in the naive belief that the Boers would bring back a colonial airline. Yes, you thought that white people would just come in and solve all of you problems. In the end, you sold away our country…

  14. Ati she was suppose to be arrested before change of government. How did he know that she was guilt? HH is behind her arrest he’s just pretending

  15. When is Lungu joining Mumbi Phiri? The entire PF needs to join Mumbi Phiri. HH must keep quiet. It is not his business to comment on the judicial processes. Please let the law take its course. There’s no bail or bond for murder. Let her suffer.

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  16. @ Ice Cold…Name which country in world where the top security, political, economical and Judiciary are not appointed directly or indirectly by the head of state? Then ask yourself why is state power vested in individuals around the globe? The answer is that would breed chaos because every functional society needs a head.

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