FORMER republican president Rupiah Banda has asked the Lusaka High Court judge-in-charge Jane Kabuka to jail Immigration Director General Moola Milomo for contempt of court after he yesterday allegedly blocked his travel to South Africa to attend a conference.
Mr Banda said in his statement of facts filed by his lawyers late yesterday before Ms Justice Kabuka that Mr Milomo and immigration officer Peter Mwansa should be sent to prison for disrespecting the court ruling.
He said the conduct of the duo had been and is still contemptuous of court and he was praying to the court to commit Mr Milomo and Mr Mwansa to prison for the said contempt.
Mr Banda said the failure by the two to obey a court order to allow him to travel was unjustified, illegal and contemptuous.
He said it was a clear disregard of the court’s ruling thus undermining the authority of the court.
Mr Banda said he had on June 4, 2013 after a hearing the previous day obtained an order dated June 6, 2013 releasing his passport and permitting him to travel to South Africa to attend the African Presidential Centre Roundtable conference 2013.
He said the court ordered that he was to be accompanied by his surety Mikatazo Wakumelo for the period of four days.
Mr Banda said that on June 7, 2013 he proceeded to the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport but before he cold process his exit out of the country, he was refused exit by Mr Mwansa an immigration officer purporting to be acting on the instruction of Mr Milomo despite being shown the ruling of the court. The matter comes up for hearing on Monday.
Useful….Trying to be big than the Court lets wait and see if Mr Milomo will rescue you I mean these are situation when you as an individual obliged to act with a sense of urgency at your discretion instead of you behaving like —-at the battle field waiting for a bullet to be put on his head without a fight just becoz the commander instructed him not to do anything untill his told to so. Mr man wake up from your catnap as thing are happening and you ought to be on go.
“He said the court ordered that he was to be accompanied by his surety Mikatazo Wakumelo for the period of four days.”
Something fishy here. How can you travel with your surety? Mambala wanted to exscape.
The guy manipulated the courts when he was president,dance to your music mambala.
Yes, they should jail Director General for contempt.
You people don’t see where this nation is heading to,when the executive wing of government stops having regard courts of law its anarchy where will u run to
These are illiterates who do not care about the country. They only care about their political clubs (political parties) and the criminal bosses who head these clubs like the Satas, Nevers, HHs, Milupis etc. It is never about the ideal and perfect Zambia others like us dream of!
The independence of the justice system has been put on the spotlight and tested for its impartiality.Lets wait and see.
Did the judgement say that he could travel or that he should be given back his passport?
what is a passport used for you fooly
That he could travel. The other guy was to accompany him as a guarantee of his return.
They should be put in jail together with their superiors who gave the orders. The executive branch is becoming too powerful undermining the judicial system of the country. The judiciary is the last refuge for the common man.
Nobody is going to jail just like someone is not attending the useless meeting in South Africa! The only winners here are the Lawyers who will get more of our stolen money channelled into their selfish pockets.
I hate to burst your bubble, pea-brained person, the lawyers win money, you and I lose something even more precious than money – justice and fair play.
I know your head hurts when you try to think.
The lawyers may win money, but you and I have lost something more precious than money – justice and fair play adjudicated by an impartial court system.
High Speed Black Mama heading in the wrong direction! I thought the court ruled in RB’s favour?
Someone please advise me where i can do fast track law…especially to defend or prosecute such cases, they are the ones that will never run dry in Zambia, and am guessing they pay really good.
Me too! I feel like I could prosecute this one without any Legal training!
Yes, send them to court including the home affairs minister, Lungu. Let them learn lessons that the courts are bigger than Sata.
RB also just likes his kamwendo munjila status. Did he not travel enough when he was president?. He knows he has a travel ban why doesn’t he simply cancel all engagements that require him to travel abroad. Well done immigrations officers at the airport.
He got a court order, capish?
L/T blogging has been overtaken by a very well organized PF Cyber miltias. No real intellectual debating anymore,just waffling in defense of their master. Warped thinkers. No wonder Mushota is hardly heard of on this on line publication.
I have also noticed that this site has been hijcked by the Militia. Even the readership has dropped drastically. L. T are also to blame for their choice of stories. There is a sudden shift towards football too – boring
BS from Lawyer icipuba. This RB can’t even use a Zambian for a lawyer. What does that say about him?
A Zambian may be corruptible through association. Also may be intimidated by cadres with nowhere to report assault/death.
You get it?
Nubian Princess, you are not seriously asking why he would get a foreign lawyer?
C’mon you can’t be that naive.
And of course the lawyer is correct to push this further. You should be farmiliar with this, you are in the US. (Unless you are a new arrival)
Nubian princes listen to ya self.You can’t even use a zambian pseudo name,you live in a foreign land yet you want to lecture RB about using things foreign? What does that say about you other than you’re a “big hypocrite”
Crazy lawyers.
I am glad that someone is challenging the blatant disregard of a court ruling. You don’t respect the courts Saulosi?
LT what is wrong with you? I have posted a number of comments but you are not publishing them. Dont be silly.
Yes,jail these useless immigration pawns of the dictator to save zambia from their foolishness.Its very unfortunate that PF faithful pfools like maxwell and Nubia priceless are blind to the fact that you cannot build a successful country in a place a judicial system is weakened yet they support this utter lunacy.
rbanda go back to jail bed and shuddap, old fool!
as a nation, unless Zambia and Zambians want to learn peace in a different way. Zambia is a big nation much more than some of you respect it, and being a landlocked nation among warring nations. RB has only himself and children to look out for. that guy stole money from the poor Zambians within the smalll duration that he stayed as president of zambia. let him stay and prove himself clean before he begins to think of going outside to spread his messages against zambia as a nation. that guy, you try to be nice with him and invite him home, he will hit on your wife straight whether she 21 or 76 years old
Just becoz he may have done wrong doesn’t excuse us or justify us to disregard the law .We should be the ones aspiring to be on a moral high ground not the opposite as you’re tryin to wrongly justify.
Stole money? You got evidence or its just what u read in de post? Biased
LET’S ALSO REMIND THIS COMPLAINANT HOW HE ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS TO
PERSECUTE CHANSA KABWELA FOR INFORMING THE AUTHORITIES THAT THERE WAS
A DESPERATE SITUATION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR AND OUR WOMEN AWERE GIVING
BIRTH ON PAVEMENTS THIS COMPLAINANT ORDERED THAT CHAANSA BE JAILED ?
WHO IS A SADDIST ?
LET’S HAVE MORALS AND CONCENTRATE ON DEFENDING OUR SELVES THOSE INVITING US WE CAN TELL THEM THAT AT THE MOMENT WE ARE BUSY !
She was released by the courts – the same system you want to destroy! Shame you can’t see
Utter contempt of court,breakdown of rule of law and the planting of the seeds of a failed society.The reason why things work so well in the U.S,Australia and other developed nations is the fear of lawsuits which breeds respect for rule of law and complete independence of the judiciary.I can now see zambia still badly wants to be a failed state.
The Court should surely act, otherwise they will be a laughing stock!!! This Govt will keep on pushing them more & more into a corner as they seem to buckle at every turn!! THE JUDICIARY SHOULD HAVE THEIR STOMACHS CHURNING UNDER THE CURRENT CJ!! THEY SHOULD GIVE HER A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, By simply NOT COOPERATING WITH HER, THUS NULLIFYING HER AUTHORITY AS WELL AS THE AUTHORITY OF THE POWER THAT APPOINTED HER TO THIS “ACTING” & UN-SCRUTINISED POSITION OF CJ!!!!
Junior Officers in Govt should learn to REQUEST FOR WRITTEN & SIGNED ORDERS NOT VERBAL, before putting their necks on the block!! So MILOMO & MWANSA should taste the confines of Chimbokaila so that others will learn!!!
Absolutely correct & spot on! And why were the police not cited for contempt when they disobeyed a court order a few months ago?
mr milimo you must need to show respect to our former president mr RB as a true zambian we need to forget about what happened before and the lawyer of MR RB he must not imprison mr milimo becouse we are true christianity where we laern on how to forgive one another.
Law is funny. There must be some technicality which the A G and his counsels have observed. I see it this way: The court orders the release of Mr. Banda’s passport. the State obeys and issues the passport. But the mere fact that he is holding his passport does not give him the right to travel. There must be a technicality somewhere, else, the Attorney General wouldn’t behave that way. Let’s wait and see how this is going to turn out. Interesting indeed.
And if I were Mr. Banda, I would just forget about foreign travel until I got cleared. What is the point of fighting a battle which you well know you are not going to win? Mr. Banda is up against State machinery and things just will not be easy for him. I sympathise with him. It is better for him to rest at home than keep shuttling to the airport, only to be sent back home. His advisers will do well to ask him to decline all international invitations until further notice.