President Rupiah Banda has pardoned Lusaka Lawyer Nsunka Sambo and his client Victor Chilekwa, who were jailed for three years for contempt of court by the Supreme Court.
Sambo and Chilekwa were jailed for three years by the Supreme Court on March 30, this year, for writing insulting letters to the bench.
This was after they lost a Court appeal in a matter between Masiye Motel Limited and Rescue Shoulders and Estate Agency Limited.
The President has remitted the three year sentences of the two, following a request they made to him.
This is in exercise of the powers vested in him as Head of State, under Article 59 (d) of the Constitution of Zambia.
The two had requested the President to exercise his constitutional powers of prerogative of mercy, to remit their sentences.
The President has said in the order to the Commissioner of Prisons that the two be released from custody immediately, on condition that they do not commit offences similar to those for which they are convicted and sentenced, during the period up to the
respective date when they would have completed serving their sentences.
This is contained in a statement issued to ZNBC News in Lusaka today by Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations DICKSON JERE.
ZNBC
Contempt of court laws in Zambia need to be clarified in the first place. Right now there is a very thin line between contempt of court and freedom of speech.
This is what Banda needed to do to FTJ and his stolen wife rather than make them feel like they are innocent. Everything about FTJ is stolen, uh. What a life?
@Kalos2121 hahaha stolen every thing
So he decides what to do. Bakaboke mulelapila na ala b
Yaba. Napoli uyu.
#1..You are so right some laws are just there to cause crimes as I have read somewhere…
Good move that will deconjest the prison. Prison should be for real criminals that are a danger to society like Kafupi and not someone who critises judges for their incomptence.
This move simply indicates that it is open season for anyone to condemn the judiciary!! RB is actually supporting those who have openly challenged the authority of the court!! this is where the judiciary should open their eyes!! At one end there is pressure to acquit certain individuals, at the other, if indeed they do go in, as long as they have contacts, RB will release them. So if anyone doubted why the MOH scandals, & it’s all gone quiet on the former PS at MOH, one who openly wrote a letter to RB LONG BEFORE HE IS FOUND GUILTY, do we ever think that guy will see the four walls of a cell should he be found guilty?? Justice in Zed is none existent!!
Sembe kamichitani kawilo bangwele…. especially the client,he has a ka nice wife…hope she is still sinlge..coz ma prayer was that,he clogs about 3 years or so..so that i try ma luck…..kukambakamba… too much!!!!!!!so muzazizila ka?