ACTING Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda is today expected to swear in three members of the tribunal to probe Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba over alleged breach of the oath of secrecy. The tribunal was supposed to have been sworn in by President Michael Sata last week.
Last week, the president took Government officials to task over their failure to present members of the Tribunal set up to probe Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba for the alleged breach of secrecy.
The members comprising Justice Evans Hamaundu, Justice Gertrude Chawatama and Justice Justine Chashi were to be sworn in by President Sata but were not present.
As soon as Mr Sata entered the room, he demanded to know the whereabouts of the members of the Tribunal from the senior Government officials who included Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Gabriel Namulambe.
“Where is the Secretary to the Cabinet and where are the members of the Tribunal? I said I wanted to swear them in today, so if they do not come today then that’s the end, l will not swear them in,” Mr Sata said.
He then directed officials to avail him the members of the Tribunal for swearing in but later a State House official announced to journalists that the swearing-in ceremony for the Tribunal had been postponed to a later date.
Ms Justice Chibesakunda last week appointed a tribunal to probe Mr Kabimba over allegations that he abused his office and breached the oath of secrecy.
She said in her letter to the chief administrator of the Judiciary that she had no objection to the setting-up the tribunal to probe Mr Kabimba.
Ms Justice Chibesakunda will swear in the chairperson of the tribunal, Supreme Court Judge Evans Hamaundu and two High Court judges Gertrude Chawatama and Justine Chashi.
The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Supreme Court and will give indication on when the tribunal will commence proceedings.
Ms Justice Chibesakunda is also expected to give the terms of reference of the tribunal.
Former Solwezi Central member of Parliament (MP) Lucky Mulusa and civil eights activist Brebner Changala petitioned Ms Justice Chibesakunda to establish a tribunal against the justice minister.
They wanted the tribunal to state whether or not Mr Kabimba abused his office by using Government information rendered by Solicitor General Musa Mwenye to allegedly back up PF cases attempting to block parliamentarians whose seats had been nullified by the Supreme Court for engaging in corrupt practices.
The duo has indicated that it will call 11 witnesses to testify in the matter.
Change of venue and approach. If the President can not it, then others can.
Is that tribunal another thing set just for face value? Because its impossible for Hamaundu and friends to accuse Injustice Minister Kabimba.
After-all thats why they didn’t want to be fooled by Sata, they would rather fool Chibesakunda, by saying “ok.. mwefipuba fimunshololwa, what do you want us to tell Kabimba”?
Education and indoctrination. where do our so called learned people belong? Gradual + indoctrination = Graduation.
Everyday frying your hair so that it looks like a white womans hair, ninshi finshi ifi sure ba educated woman and at your age. i cant take what you say, because you dont even know or appreciate your natural true self.
Is it true that PF cadres are now wearing camouflage combat uniforms with red berets?
Nick was a cadet before he got his infection.
Thanks.
Give it up moron
Nice try. dont use my name get a life, your vomit
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@ Kolwe,
You might as well take off your clothes, shoes and put on leaves, do away with your luxuries that came with civilization, go back to eating roots and hunt with arrows for your meat, stop using the computers or your fone, dont even write in English or speak it, use your native language, above all why do we all just go back to the 1800 so that we can hear each other perfectly!
My opnion above is, however, not to say am in support with Mrs Chibesakunda, thank you!
@Kolwe
I am I agree with you 100%
If the Lord blesses me with long life, I will proudly have my hair in its natural grey colour, like Uncle K (Mumba Kapumpa)
@cindy-do you insinuate that the so called african was not civilized before the white invaders came?what is civilization?the root word of civilization is civil.which may mean something of citizens or UNRUDE,PEACEFUL.Would you then call western civilization peaceful?when it forces you to hate your own sprituality,religions and way of life.Robs you of your own identity,language etc?You start to think that a lighter complexion is a much better appearance than a dark one.Sure am ngoni,i can learn bemba, nyanja, german, spanish and its ok for communications sake,but if i were to abandon my own language in preference to these languages then am lost.How many so called educated parents in zambia today only speak in english to their kids and not an ounce of bemba, tonga etc.have you thought why?
what have clothes got to do with civilization? I can wear leaves but be civilized at the same time while the one who has clothes on can come rape our women,take them into slavery, force his religion on us and steal our resources.
Think about it this way, our ancestors started of first by being fruit gatherers and hunters and lived in caves. then they started wearing animal clothes, lived in thatched huts and started animal husbandry and farming. so cindy what makes you so sure that if the bakuwas (whites) never came, we would have been stuck at the same level of wearing animal skins. i mean 400 years from the time the whites came and we would still be gathering fruit? no change sure mwe bantu? ninshi tenze tinafika at the zenith of our growth as a people? Nakana sana
@ Kolwe and Doggie,
Lets pick up this fight another time….. though you have made me laugh, anyways fellows, you know what I meant!
Cindy – nkalalolela kanshi.
How do you probe a man without him stepping to reduce undue influence? This lady is just a chief injustice preciding over kangaroo courts
I was wondering the same. Why is Wynter not resigning so that he can be probed properly? This only means one thing, the tribunal is a cleansing process…the judges will find him not guilty and the PF will say, you see we respect the courts process – we are the best!
Justice must be seen to be done – the tribunal process will just breed further hatred for the PF
Too soon, why in a hurry, Hon.kabimba is still busy with the constitution, probing him now will divert his attention from the big task
This Sata i dot has really lost his mind. He has lost completely lost his bearing. The Zambian president is insane!
WHERE IS SATA TO AS USUAL DO THE ONLY JOB HE KNOWS.
She does look like a wicked woman. Has she got the spine to stand on moral ground?
The tribunal members should demand kabimba to step aside before taking the probe,otherwise the justices will lose their integrate on this matter.why is the president so scared on winter?many people will now conclude that winter and mumembe are the ones ruling the country.what s so had for the president to draft a letter dropping winter and give it to his driver,drop it a winter’s office.sata is really scared of kabimba,this reminds me of jomo kenyanta when he was sick,Kenya was runned by his close friend and close relatives .u can’t hide things when u are in leadership.
In order to have a fair investigation, shouldn’t kabimba be suspended first?
Being part of the A Team, I doubt that they will find anything against him. This is just like probing HEMCS or Scott.
Another waste of time, money and energy.
#OneZambia
#CumbuNoPlan
Just a waste of time and resources we all know the outcome of this smoke screen of a tribunal
Surely as soon as the Tribunal Members are sworn in we expect Wynter to step down. In case he doesn’t, then I would urge the Petitioners Mr Mulusa and Changala to write to the Acting Chief Justice stating that for the inquiry to be seen to be fair and unfettered, Wynter needs to step down. Of course various precedents including the Dora Siliya can be cited in support of this position.
lets analyse this triburnal closely,something is about to come out here.why is chibesa and sata so eager to set up a triburnal against wynter?there is a game of chess here guys!
game of chess without chess-board?
The Justices on this tribunal are credible and competent. Rest assured that they will give Wynter a very tough time. If he doesnt step down on his own, I see the Justices raising that issue with the appointing authority – which will give Sata a credible excuse to have Wynter step down ( as Sata seems powerless when it comes to Wynter) .
I see the Tribunal making key recommendations with far reaching ramifications ( the Executive will sit on the Report of course . Sata never releases Inquiry Reports to the Public . Just remember how many Commissions of Inquiry he set up upon taking office – ZRA Commissions of Inquiry, ZNBS CoI, ZANACO CoI, Barotseland CoI, ERB CoI – none of these have been made public . Now he wants to treat the Constitution in the same manner .
And when Wynter steps down , that will be poetic justice for GBM. GBM resigned on principle while Wynter will have been booted out in ignominy. How interesting , not even Hollwood could have written such a script. Without lifting a finger, Sata would have had both Wynter and GBM out of their cabinet positions, albeit in very contrasting circumstances. Now the down side -with too much time on their hands, the duo will go flat out to mobilise their opposing camps. They will both have taken off their kid gloves- be prepared for bare knuckles fight to the death as the two camps fight their decisive and last battle. After that, there will be no PF left.
Stop deceiving the Zambian people , this is meant to blind fold the electorates. PF your days are numbered. 2016 is coming
A waste of time and resources again by able or may thought to be able thinking leaders. Look within reality….our own UTH and the nurses are inna mess and all they think of is still playing their popular game, politricks.
“… Kenya was runned…” wrong English grammar improve yo grammar.
The best Kamimbya can do is to resign on his own so that he leaves chances of reappointment in future. If he gets fired it will be difficult to get back to government again. He must think quickly.
First what makes me wonder is the fact that the whole head of state not knowing the whereabouts of the people that he was to swore in. No body gave the president the answer, is it possible for the president really never to know about what was happening?
Who is responsible of bringing those people in? Who goes to call the president for any ceremony? Did he not know that the people were not around for that particular ceremony? Life here on earth.
Another wasting tax payers money to start paying these people while people are sleeping hungry out there and in rural areas the hospitals have no drugs.
It is already wrong and enough to do wrong, but it is worse to feel proud of it.
SATA is so proud of wrong doing; the man enjoys wrongs and clearly celebrates when others suffer or are in trouble.
What spirit is at work if SATA enjoys and celebrates evil, wrongs he does and suffering of other people.
Prayer for the Nation is vital and a must for our future.
Zambia has been temporarily besieged and captured by a strange being (spirit) which must be rooted out.
Yes, this is temporary.
The mistake made was that the same was endorsed by some people from the pulpit. Thus the church authority and power was compromised, and so prayer offered could only hit the roof.
Thank God, the church has began to repent – those who endorsed him have seen their errors are regretful.
Therefore prayer…
@Kolwe you are a nincompoop! You wife or sisters if you have are katwishi fimbuma
so imwe nga mwaocha imishishi ninshi mwaumfwa bwino? ati tuli kubulaya, imishishi kwati musungu. ati nachinyanja sakamba, aziba chabe chizungu. imwe ninshi mwaumfwa bwino. namusuba nokusuba ama perfume, anti perspirants when the body is actually supposed to perspire. and you call it civilization. If you dont know yourself first, all your education you might get will only foster the development of the one who gave you that education. isnt it the reason why we have educated people in zambia and fail to adapt what they learn to suit the environment, country. but go to europe with your education, you will find yourself doing well ka? do you know why this is the case? All i ask you is to think a little more before you call me a nincompoop. i know you have it in you brother/sister.
@ Imwa,
Hihihihi, you smoke the fresh wet one!
Winter must go.We dont want him to continue working.He should resign as Minister and sec general.Viva PF and SATA.
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