The Lowest Levels of State Desperation: A Shameless Attempt to Destroy
Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba wrote:
Sunday, November 10, 2024,was and is an extremely sad day for our democracy and the rule of law.
We may have said this before, but the events and depravity of lawlessness displayed today have reached a new low, marked by illegalities and absurdities now unfolding across the country.
We may not like Miles Sampa or approve of his ways. We recognize that he was a beneficiary of past lawlessness in State House’s attempts to dismantle the Patriotic Front. However, Sampa obtained a valid court order, signed by Lusaka High Court Judge, Hon. Mrs. Justice Conceptor Chinyanwa Zulu, to restrain Mafinga Member of Parliament Robert Chabinga from purporting or acting as Patriotic Front President.
But with utter impunity and backed by heavily armed police officers, Chabinga defied the court order, proceeded to act as PF President, and made various illegal pronouncements.
In tow were state agents, police, and the media, like a team invited to a crime scene, abetting this breach of law and capturing every detail to ensure that the sordid act was on full display for the country.
At the height of his waning power, Zambia’s founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, refused to interfere with justice even when his own son was arrested for murder. The Lusaka High Court proceeded to find Kambarange Mpundu Kaunda guilty and sentenced him to death.
The day we abandon respect for the judiciary is the day our democracy dies.That day is today.
In our case, we have a President, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema, who does not defend the rule of law but allows the Zambia Police to promote and perpetrate lawlessness.
The police detain suspects for days and months, prolonging detentions, torturing, and sometimes killing suspects in extra-judicial incidents. They protect lawbreakers, as they did for Robert Chabinga and his charade.
Chabinga will be celebrated on ZNBC today, and the Zambia Police have granted him additional protection for his lawlessness, potentially even escorting him to the Patriotic Front Secretariat.
Chabinga also informed us of further illegalities perpetrated by certain officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs, where recorded office bearers at the Registrar of Societies for the Patriotic Front have been illegally changed yet again.
Thus, Chabinga’s illegal pronouncements, such as the expulsion of MPs, may be enacted by yet another set of lawbreakers, including the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia.
Where is the Law Association of Zambia? Where is the Chief Justice, to ensure that the court orders mandated by the Constitution are respected?
In September 2024, Kenya’s acting Inspector General of Police was sentenced to six months in prison after repeatedly defying orders to testify on the whereabouts of three men detained by the police who could not be presented in court for a Habeas Corpus hearing.
Chief Justice Martha Koome supported Justice Lawrence Mugambi’s orders and reprimanded the police when they attempted to withdraw security from the judge.
In our country, from State House to the UPND Secretariat, they are gleefully celebrating the destruction of the largest opposition party in the country.
Ba Mwamba, koseni. That’s how MMD felt when you (PF) set out to destroy it. It’s now a shadow of its former self. May this greatest ‘honor’ beckon you now!
No sympathy for a snake charmer who gets bitten!
Your statement is an admission of guilt. A confession, maybe. Unlike Hon. Jack Mwiimbu who denies everything about this open secret on such a plot. Congratulations to UPND for charming the snake as we also await that biting.
The retrospective approach articulated by Mayo is a contributing factor to our continued entrapment in a cycle of retribution and political misconduct. President Hichilema and the UPND was elected on a platform promoting the rule of law, with a commitment to move away from the judicial and police abuses that characterized the previous administration. The deliberate undermining of opposition parties is not aligned with our national interest.
Stop pinning the mess on Hakainde, its Lungu`s and Miles Sampa`s mess. THEY STARTED IT.
You people are forgetting the root cause and focusing on the effects thereafter. Had PF acted to their constitution and went ahead to select their leader, and had ECL, let go the PF leadership, I am certain we would be talking about something else.
Its LUNGU who is desperate to get back power, no wonder he is making political speeches in churches.
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Disorganisation within the party (PF) is the root causer of all those confusion.
Sampa
Lungu
Chabinga
Jostling for PF presidency
We have thieves terrorizing our parkings at shopping malls, thieves breaking into our properties and here police are assigned to protect Chabinga…. I don’t care about PF leadership but to assign state resources to protect a rebel of a political party…. and for Mweetwa to keep on denying that government has no hand in the chaos happening in the opposition party is the lowest form of absurdity.
Its true money corrupts
everyone trying to be saintly now
You have to experience poverty to reach that state
If you have any political clout dissolve the PF and have the 59 seats in Parliament declared vacant. Found another political vehicle and win back all the seats then everyone will respect you. HH determined to bury the PF and it seems nothing will stop him. Your lamentations won’t produce any positive result.
Last kicks of a dying horse
Dancing to your own tunes, another round please….
I honestly believe someone miscalculated or much more likely most of PF was played and duped. Made to pay presidential nomination fees, but no convention??
If a convention had been held, we would not be in this circus and if we allowed UPND to play us, then we have not been smart. Reason? Personal ego and greed.
Emmanuel take my advice seriously. What is PF doing in Parliament today? Nothing! They can’t even speak freely on any motion. Either Nellie Mutti or Moyo will ask them to sit down like children or to leave the house. Is this what you call opposition or checks and balances?
And we are asked not to blame anyone but Lungu for clinging to power. That’s a great advice. Wow! Who’s fooling who?
Our heads are not in the sand. Time is ticking, and UPND end time is fast approaching. Another chapter will surely open soon. But before that happens, Chabinga would be abandoned same Sampa is liquidated.
And we are asked not to blame anyone but Lungu for clinging to power. That’s a great advice. Wow! Who’s FULLING who?
Our heads are not in the sand. Time is ticking, and UPND end time is fast approaching. Another chapter will surely open soon. But before that happens, Chabinga would be abandoned same way Sampa is liquidated.
It’s bizarre for mwamba to be holding the moral highground now ………
After he was part and parcel, and even participated and said nothing about some of the worst abuses, ever…….
Carried out by a GRZ, the PF GRZ , which he was a senior member
Forwadee 2031…..
Africa, many years of colonisation has made things worse. We still have the Chabingas the Kaindes, the Kachasu man and This boy who admits to working with opposition to destroy political parties. He often referes to politics as a game. A game when people’s lives are involved? what a shame. Politics is not a game it requires people of integrity not these thugs that we have who are busy abducting their fellow politicians, and busy causing up to colonisers. They have even forgotten the people that put them in power.
Blame game will not sort out pf problems. This is 2024 ,over three years since pf lost power and to date PF has not held a general conference to asses their performance , choose new leadership and map a way forward.
Zambians were traumatised ,brutalised and neglected. All we hear is alebwelepo naifwe tulefwya ukwikuta.
Where are the specific programs to attract investment, improve the economy and improve people’s lives?
Time is ticking and tomorrow when they lose miserably ati they have rigged the elections.
Bo Ambassador let’s avoid emotional debates and apply reason to judge our institutions
This country has gone to the dogs