President Rupiah Banda says he has not yet considered restoring the immunity of second republican president Dr. Frederick Chiluba.
Mr Banda was speaking to Journalists in Lusaka today shortly before departure for Kasama in Northern Province for a two-day working visit.
He said Dr. Chiluba is free to seek legal redress just like any other person.
The President said he respects the judiciary, parliament and the executive because the separation of powers makes government and Zambia, a peaceful nation.
“I very much respect the judiciary, parliament and the executive because the separation of powers makes government and Zambia a peaceful nation,” President Banda said.
Ndola High Court Registrar Jones Chinyama acquitted Dr. Chiluba on August 17, 2009 on all counts of embezzling public funds amounting to US$500,000.
And, Vice President, George Kunda said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will make a decision on whether or not to appeal against Dr. Chiluba’s immunity request.[quote]
Meanwhile President Banda has said he has no intentions of relieving Local Government and Housing Minister Benny Tetamashimba of his duties.
Mr Banda said he is receiving reports that Mr Tetamashimba, who is also MMD Spokesperson, should be maintained because the people of Zambia still need his services.
He urged Zambians to continue praying for the Minister’s quick recovery.
The President was seen off at the Airport by Vice President George Kunda, Cabinet Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Defense Chiefs, senior MMD party officials and patriotic Zambians.
The President is expected to return to Lusaka soon after completing his official programme in that province.
ZANIS
Number one. Give him back after all it doesnt matter what we want but what others want pa Zed
We are yet to see the need for the manda manda.
I think Sata is more handsome than this thing in the picture. Imona ubukulu, one nite Thandi will suffocate when that big nose gets all the oxygine in the bedroom. ICHIMONA UBUKULU.
Chachine yama dont rush matters you might end up regreting at the end of the day
Something wrong with your heading LT. Chiluba’s immunity was removed or as you prefer lifted eight years ago!!
Bwezani DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT IF YOU VALUE YOUR REPUTATION AND THE PRESIDENCY. DONT
whose prerogative is it anyway?
Elyo ba President you should have not made that comment that we 12m Zambians had welcomed the acquital of one Fredrick Chiluba. Please dont put words in our mouth.
Well down LT. Good that you have corrected your heading. Story makes sense now!!
banda natukusula kale
For him to say hasn’t considered restoring Chiluba’s immunity simply implies that he will. Both are dubious so he will do just that. No wonder he ended up marrying his own grand daughter.
This just shows how bwezani has been manipulared by Titus mpundu,but he will live to regret this.Mpundu is still facing criminal charges as Nkole has alluded
Since he has been aquited he needfs to be given back his immunity, why hold on
Just restore it please and stop wasting Zambian peoples time and money
This is just buying time, he knows that after Zambians cool off they will forget and he eventually will remove that immunity. No scope ba Presido! Elo Tetamashimba, it seems his sickness is quite serious, i thought he was discharged already?? They were even saying ati mudala aliche? BOZA! Ayenda munthu.
Its friday today and the G.Rider feels like he can devour a Rider Chick tonight.
If Mwanawasa is the one who moved the motion or asked parliament to lift the immunity, may be it goes without saying that the president can have a role. Otherwise why did FTJ copy RB the letter they have sent to the Speaker.
All in all, the right jurisdiction should be Parliament. If we want effective separation of power, then the Executive shouldn’t be involved in this.
But going by the beginnings, the Executive via LPM asked Parliament to lift the immunity, which they did. Then Parliament freed the Judiciary to try FTJ, which they have done.
V Mwanga says there’s currently no process in the constitution for restoring immunity.
Watch out for the grey areas. Dont be surprised if FTJ gets away with his immunity on grounds of legal technicalities. The Dribbler always wins.
The immunity was removed by Parliament and not a President. So how do you restore what you have no power to? It can only be restored by Parliament.
RB YOU HAVE TAKEN ZAMBIANS FOR GRANTED, BE OBJECTIVE NOT SUBJECTIVE. ANYWAY, SO FAR YOU RE THE WORST PRESIDENT THE COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD. THE ONLY CONSOLATION IS YOU RE SECONDED BY THE GUY YOU RE SO CONFUSEDLY IN SUPPORT OF FTJ.
Njipusheko, bushe what smells in RB? look at ka kunda in the background and Thandi as well likes doing that to her mouth. Somebody around bwazani must be doing some serous farting
Mr. president you should steep back from this, take a very deep breath, and make sure you carefully weigh things b4 rushing in to shield FTJ thru immunity with all the ?marks still surrounding this man. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Zambian people for accepting Mr. Chiluba’s acquittal” maybe an illusion on your part. As president you shouldn’t be seen to all the time be in a hurry to come to the aid of those that in our society (Zambia) are considered privileged—-the likes of Hon Siliya, FTJ, etc. True, these people have had their day in court and were exonerated, but that does not mean it is your job as President to use your office to rehabilitate these people’s images, lest ordinary Zambians conclude that justice is only for the PRIVILAGED in this country!!!
Njipusheko, bushe what smells around RB? look at ka kunda in the background and Thandi as well likes doing that to her mouth. Somebody around bwazani must be doing some serous F.a.r.t.i.n.g
# 9 Rodney King. Fail! It is NOT well down. Lol
Is it RB who has to make up his mind to restore the immunity of FTJ or the courts of law? Does his statement mean that he has a say in what the court would decide at the end of the day.AHHH AHHH Please.
There is no doubt FTJ will get back his immunity will be restored. What the pipo are doing is fly a kite up there and assess our reaction. RB is very diplomatic, its not him to restore the immunity but parliament. He has talked of separation of power, Exective, Parliament and Judicial,read between the lines. In case the situation regarding removal of FTJ’s immunity was susupect. the man was never given any chance to tell part of his story in parliament. The whole issue then was full of emotions. The only sensible voice came from George Kunda and a few other who said let us give this man a chance. So the courts decision to aquit FTJ was based on submission from defence & prosecution teams. The judge makes his own independent decision on arriving at the verdict. Its all politiking.
#23, it is parliament.
Ba RB with your cheap politics. We know your scam with FTJ. You want him acquited so that he sues the state for damages. We know you like chekeleko, he will soon dribble you too after dribbling the state……… Zambians will have the last laugh
RB, you are a damn good President
PS, RB is short for Rubbish…., kanitundila kudala kasiyeni…..
ama jokes yekayeka muchalo chesu. nothing serious happens there. the president is a joke the former president is a joke , the opposition is a joke. the voters are all jokers. no wonder the constittuition is a joke also
#26 Tonga Bull you are so right. People dont know Kafupi the way Mwanawasa knew him. That short man is shrud and a very dirty player
Zambia is cursed.
All Zambians are hereby invited to join the Diaspora Movement!
The political system in Zambia is corrupt and damaged. The President should not be allowed to win in 2011. The electoral commission needs reform, and so does the judiciary. The Chiluba case and Ministry of Health scandal are classic examples of what the current government is all about, and ultimately why Zambia is still in poverty.
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The removal of FTJ’z immunity in the first place waz hushed and made the country a laughing stock. Now it’s even more wiered that we may have to go back to restoring the immunity. Like a fantasy movie…
#33 I totaly agree with you coz this country is full jokers. We never get serious no matter how simple things look like. What is the next step. FTJ gave houses in the name on empowering the citizens for mahala. But how many pipo benefited? Those houses should have bin included in the court indicament/court case and asked all those who received them return them to GRZ and local authorities. As usaual all were quiet. I dont think FTJ benefited alone Churchses, NGOs, MPs cadres mention them the list is endless.We never learn we never get proactive when dealing with public affairs. We are only seen to react when the damage has bin done and enemy has disappeared. What is way forward. Let the man have his immunity restored. Chance to imprison FTJ was squandared during Levy’s time this time…
With RB at the helm, it matters less whether chiluba gets back his immunity or not.
That’s pretty much how I feel at this point; keep bending it until it breaks.
how dirty can politics be.but banda should not underestimate the power of the people .
Please close this case and let us move on. The so called Task fools should be closed. We have wastered so much without recovering anything!!
Zambians like dwelling on petty issues and you call it politics!! Stop this rhetoric and move on! Chiluba or no Chiluba, Sata or none, RB or not, we need policy to drive us to a better future not cheap talk. The world is fed up and laughing. Put up or shut up!
Zambians like dwelling on petty issues and you call it politics!! Stop this rhetoric and move on! Chiluba or no Chiluba, Sata or none, RB or not, we need policy to drive us to a better future not cheap talk. The world is fed up and laughing. Put up or shut up! Neither RB nor any one of you is talking on behalf of ‘pipo’, talk for yourself!! Unlimited freedom of speech is abused by lazy bones. Give us a break.
Just give it back to him and forget; now let us concentrate on how to get back the 27billion kwacha in the ministry of health
On Mr President RB Banda (Masters?/Diploma? in Economic Hosdtory) — who should have written similar books in terms of contents like Dambisa Moyo (PhD, UK) comment “President Rupiah Banda says he has not yet considered restoring the immunity of second republican president Dr. Frederick Chiluba“, does Mr President RB Banda know that it is only Parliament that can restore Mr Chiluba’s immunity? As for “And, Vice President, George Kunda said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will make a decision on whether or not to appeal against Dr. Chiluba’s immunity request“, is the DPP Muchenga? the one who was just given the State Counsel status? Yaba!
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Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all shall be added unto you.
we need a leader of the chavez, castro, morales type to clean up the mess in this country. RB cant handle the issues at hand he is a weak president that is why even his ministers do not fear him. they can fight in public, they can insult the catholic, they can get imprest and never retire and they dont see any repurcussions from the old man. RB please start cracking the whip. first t should start within MMD then extend t to outsuders. FTJ is making all this noise coz alisula RB he knows he wont say anything. we need a strong president who can act and do things to protect the majority of zambians from powerful crooks like FTJ
On “Mr Banda said he is receiving reports that Mr Tetamashimba, who is also MMD Spokesperson, should be maintained because the people of Zambia still need his services“, I empathise with Minister MP Tetamashimba and I hope he will be well. The brothers needs to participate in the 2011 elections so that he can understand how the voting dynamics will be then. I hope the PACT will win the 2011 elections with someone other than Mr MC Sata (Grade 2/6, unknown) as the PACT’s presidential candidate.
As for the request to pray for honourable Mr Tetamashimba, what is he suffering from so I can know exactly how to make a petition to God properly for desired healing.
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Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all shall be added unto you.
Junk politics indeed.
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Restoration of immunity for what? The man was cleared of all the charges as an innocent man? What is he afraid of? Is there something he knows which the people of Zambia dont know which he wants to hide again. He does not need any immunity he he is an innocent man. You may escape in the corrupt court system. But you wont escape the court of God. Unless you come in the open and repent. RB I’VE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU FOR NOW. Zambia needs liberation!
Good to be Zambian. REVOLUTION 2011
#31 walvis bay
In the name of Jesus I return that curse to you. God bless our greta nation, Zambia!
Let Chiluba get back his immunity. After all, I can assure you all those cases Max is ranting about won’t amount to anything. Its over. Let Chiluba get on with his life. The Task Force was just a Levy strategy to persecute Chiluba. Otherwise why did he fail in all those years to prosecute Chiluba. The man (levy) was so full hate and vengency it contributed to his BP and death. It was not a serious fight against corruption and theft of public funds. Good example was the MOH theft where when the Auditor General tried to probe some PS, he would interven protecting them. What a joke of the fight against corruption. Shame!
Why wait for until Mundia Sikatana goes to the Bahamas to retrieve the $2 billion he said would in 2002? Why wait another 8 years so that Nkole and his handlers can have a another 8 years to pay themselves huge amounts of money? Bringing Chiluba to courts over the US$20 million deal is stupid especially that Nkole and his handlers had 8 years to do that? Should we wait another 8 years for the carrington case to come up for mention? who are the witnesses? Nkole and the his handlers come on don’t insult us, we are not stupid. The task force has misused more money than Kapoko. Wake up and smell the coffee.
If I may ask a simple question, why has the Task force on corrution never been audited? Nkole and his handlers can not create rules and be referees at the same time. Rupiah must not forget the prophetic meaning of his middle name:Bwezani – to restore. This man has come to restore true government(BOMA). Rupiah must regulate NGOs, and newspapers. NGOs as a whole are receiving more money than central government, and this is why they fear regulation. Show me one NGO leader who is thin, they are all fat , come on show us the trick.
Ba VP bene what type of lip stick does he use and for what?
Banda has no single drop of decency in his body. Every time you hear him saying he has not yet considered something or he is still studying the report, you know already he has made a decision contrary to what any man with any decent degree of integrity will do. On FTJ, watch him doom himself just for a few Katangese votes. On Teta, for heaven’s sake, what reports is he reading? The snob has one foot in the grave and we are still paying his medical fees, and salary. Chaipila Zambia sure!
#32. If you join the movement then what? You can petition or complain to whoever but as long as RB is not able to listen to you the way he is then you are just wasting your time.
Is there any evidence beyond the usual hearsay that says that Banda made Chiluba a free man? Is this the same president who is supposed to be on auto-pilot and yet is so powerful and dictatorial that he orders the judiciary to do all his bidding? Bane, you have to make up your minds otherwise just put up and shut up. These politics of finger pointing dont get us anywhere. Where were most of you when your man Sata said he would free Chiluba? Some bloggers are just as hypocritical and inconsistent as the same politicians they spend their lives criticising.
Amen to that #49 – The Saint. I second you. In as much as things may not be going as well as we want in Zambia, its highly irresponsible to utter the statements that #31 Walvis Bay has uttered. Let’s wish our motherland well. I don’t know about you but I have only one country and irregardless of how many citizenships I may attain, Zambia will always be my country and God Bless Zambia! I do not see how you can be saying such things when your whole clan still lives there. Even if you are not in Zambia now, you wish it well….Ifya kulanda landa without ukutontokanya muleke!
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In the light of Chiluba’s acquittal I have a problem that the Nkole and its handlers continue to support the ineptitude and lack of foresight of the Task Force on corruption. That outfit needs to be disbanded all altogether, they have abused the collective loyalty of Zambia. Twachula pafula.
In Great Britain, a Scottish judge has released a Aldelbaset Al Megrahi, the only man convicted of the heinous crime in Lockerbie. Nobody is threatening to withdraw aid from Great Britain or indeed lampooning the Judge. Viva Judge Jones Chinyama for your courage to free Chiluba. Yes Zambia needs courageous judges like annel silungwe who freed Kabarage, Kaunda’s son.
The MMD is playing tricks…Now we can see that they started something they could not finish…You got the immunity away from him, and now have failed to catch Sakala…
They are better things to do.. But the Political engineer is free…
The Post newspaper are inciting Zambians against Chiluba’s judgement, I’m fully zambia and I accept the judgment. Lets move on people.
#61 This is a real bitter pill for the Post to swallow, after all that largely factless but emotional campaign against Chiluba. And as usual they are looking for public sympathy. But we now know them very well, egoistic zealots! I actually doubt Chiluba’s innocence but what can we do when the Post tainted its campaign with half truths and downright lies? The Post has reinvented Chiluba in the likeness of an angel, and they want to pass the buck to President Banda. Guys let’s move on, we have better things to attend to. After all, 7 years of embarrassment for any former Head of State is enough punishment.
Dear # 62, You are right, we can never move on when wrong has not corrected, how is that possible? The truth is that the system in Zambia is so bad that it may lead that country into chaos like it did in Kenya and Zimbabwe, don’t think these other countries are stupid no, when you pushed civilian to the edge they can do unmagineable in case you dont know and you are not in Zambia. How can a poor person in shangombo able to prove that evil Chiluba and his fellow cronies are not corrupt? Tell me? When such persons they only power they had wastheir vote ….to put in leaders that are responsible for the nation.
Wait and see where Zambia is going, if we dont’ accept that Zambian leaders have taken everyone for granded.
Isn’t restoring immunity on FTJ the purview of the august house? I think RB is in over his head!
Kasama boy & ward 21 listen to me that parliament u see boys is a rubber stamp. It’s owned by the president even the speaker has no cotrol over it, he will be fired if he dares the appointing authority. How I wish I was RB. You should understand the importance of good electrol laws and a good costitution. Give Chiluba what belongs to him RB. Mwayapyelefye umulilo pamakasa. Castro nkabapo nkamwatukwa. Wechalo ububi weushikuta wasenda na Castro
It’s dramer at luangwa national park, keep your eyes open and ears alart.Something is moving your direction. #63 stop day dreaming. Understand how politics are crafted everywhere in Africa. RB didnt even understand the deep corners of the current constitution crafted by chiluba. He didnt even understand how much power was vested in him. That’s why G. Kunda is just there to guide him over the powers he has in that horrible constitution. Chiluba is gone just give him his WWE belt and expedite the review of his wife’s case he can’t do without her and u know that.Lets fight for a good constitution and a clean ECZ period. For king cobra u will be the next victim of the next constitution if u are not carefull. To me bravo I have at least a degree from UNZA. Stop the nonsense of…