SUSPENDED High Court judges Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga have applied for an order to commence contempt proceedings against Malawian Judge Lovemore Chikopa for allegedly disobeying the court order that stayed the tribunal proceedings.
The duo stated that the stay was ordered on June 5, this year but notwithstanding the order of the court, Mr Chikopa had continued to engage in acts contrary to the Court’s order by issuing letters requesting witnesses to appear before the tribunal.
“With full knowledge of the Order of Stay of the proceedings of the said tribunal duly issued by the Higher Court, justice Chikopa continued to sit and chair the tribunal and conducted hearings in the month of July whereat evidence relating to the applicants was received from witnesses,” they said.
In their statement verifying ex-parte summons for an order for leave to commence committal proceedings against Mr Chikopa as chairperson of the tribunal and his secretary Chipili Magayane, the duo indicated that the alleged contemnors’ conduct of proceeding with the hearings notwithstanding the order for a stay was disobedience of court proceedings.
its a circus, you cannot trust anyone!
Yes let Chikopa start paying back the free money he is earning off Zambians backs.Why people ruin their reputations at the pleasure of Michael Sata puzzles me.
Long over due- Chikopa must go!! If his moral conscious can’t do it let the law visit him. Save tax payers’ money please.
The budget already depleted-Thief protecting thieves(Post newspaper FRED MMEMBE; DPP MUTEMBO NCHITO-14BILLION DBZ CASH, Forgery of Justice Gregory Phiri’s Judgement) !! Thieves, thieves yes thieves!!
SATA IS BEING DECIVED BY THESE THUGS……WAKE UP MR PRESIDENT.THESE THUGS WILL DESTROYE WHAT YOU BUILT IN 10 YRS OF OPPOSITION.YOU KNOW THE TORCH YOU HAVE WITH PIPO.YOU DON T NEED THEM.REMEMBER WHAT MWANAWASA DID WHEN CHILIBA TRIED TO CONTROL HIM?POWER IS WITH YOU .ANYTHING THEY HAVE AGANIST YOU,KICK THEM IN PRISON FOR THE 14 BILLION THEY ARE OWING ZAMBIA.THE OPPOSITIONS ARE NOT YOUR ENEMIES.IT IS THESE THUGS WHO CAN ONLY MAKE IT ON WHAT YOU SUFFERED FOR………
It is a comedy of errors. a case study for students of law.
Judges firing shots in the air to scare away a fellow judge. This is aimed at sending him back to Malawi because he seems not wanting to go back, so legal battles may send him by force. Watching closely while events unfold. Judges against judges, and lawyers against lawyers.
Nchelelebula
we’ve had too many applications to do that from them so what are they scared of if they are innocent??????????
Perhaps they are scared of a kangaroo court beholden to the executive that has already made its mind up without regard for due process or the law itself?
this chikopo has wasted our money. now let him lose some and pack his bags for Nyasaland. he should not play with Northern Rhodesia.
And someone should sue him for overstaying in the country – more than one year, without a substantive job and proper permits is not allowed, even if the labour was imported by the President, because he is not law unto himself. And what of the cost to the nation for his upkeep and luxury. And his career – unless he is working behind doors as conultant to the old woman – the rejected and expired CJ!
Sue the baga. Let him not run away. Were is FAT albert to coment.
All this just to prevent Membe and his grossly obese friend from paying back the monies they owe to the Zambian public, the majority of whom live on less than a dollar a day!
mr chikopa was working under the influence of mr sata&kabimba so i dont think that application for suspended judgers is going anywhere !
sometimes it’s nice to pretend you are educated. In your case that would have meant keeping quiet or saying something like ‘Ndelolesha fyye, something in those lines.
Sue the bagar. Let him not run away. Give him a contempt of court charge for a start so that he spends a night at woodland police station. Chikopa and Amsterstand must realise that as much as we have fulls running the govt, ZAMBIA IS BIGGER than these fulls. Where is FAT albert to comment.?
Check his residence PERMIT. it it expired lock up the FULL.
Good one Judges but sue Sata as a second defendant and the govt as third defendant…
i lik yo thinking! cheers!
TEAM UP WITH FIRED POLICE BY SATA.
Why has he clung to our great nation? Is life so hard in Malawi that he would rather sacrifice his principles and suffer all sorts of ridicules provided he can fill his tummy ni don’t mind? Njala Ku Malawi sikoyenda.
can a father in the house fight/judge the visitor he has invited to help him on something.mind u chikopa did not drive himself to zambia.muleiposelafye inshita bane
ALL THIS IS BECAUSE OF FRED MEMBE;
I believe we have a problem in Zambia where the Judiciary sounds divided. What is so special about Mmembe that made the president to call Chikopa when we have our own people who can solve the problems. Is the government solving the Issue of Mmembe 14 billion kwacha scandal or the misbehaviour of the Judges. Personally I want to know the fracas which led to all this wastage of Zambian resources and to make matters worse it is like Chikopa is acting as Chief justice of Zambia
@Idah
You have hammered one thing on the head..”all this is because of Fred M’membe”. It is indeed and then to that we can add his cohorts like Nchito and Kabimba. But the question, as you rightly put it, is what is so special about M’membe? Well the answer lies in the power of the media and his flagrant betrayal of the trust that the Zambian people had bestowed upon M’membe’s post newspaper. He knew his influence on the people of Zambia and he took us all for granted, including Sata, in order to advance his personal interests. We all know (and those that didnt, should now know) that Sata could not have won the Sept 2011 without the support of the post. The Post n PF entered into an agreement (signed or not) and it is for the protection of this agreement that the nation is…
Has he got a work permit? If he fails to produce it we shall hunt him and charge him as an illegal migrant. He is no special than others.
Power struggle vs class struggle. That is my perspective. Lawyers can go on doing this forever.
With blind sata leading, zambia has gone to the dogs. This mwachusa was not supposed to be allowed to b where he is now.
The very next thing we shall hear from these judges is that they are suing the authors of the HOLY BIBLE!
wow man, 17 comments later and you come up with that little masterpiece… totally hurts being PF methinks, simple minded folk with only the basics in the art of humor. In short my friend, your comment was TOTALLY not funny.
interesting..let the judge chikopo be sued..he’s abrogating the law..
Time will come when Sata will be held to account over his unilateral and illegal decision to bring Chikopo to Zambia to drain Zambia’s meager financial resources. Why for example are we not told how much was ‘budgeted’ for Chikopo’s holiday in Zambia? Chikopo himself has no morals at all. When this whole thing is brought to the surface it will be far worse than the trumped up charges against RB.
Law never ceases to amaze me. Am enjoying this anyway true comedy nao bamufwaila umulandu.
Chikopo must go back to Niassaland. We have enough Fikopo of our own including the two dragging him to another court.
Nchelelebula is a rich lenje word which refers to a bird that preys on maggots. It is usually found hovering around a rotten carcus of an animal or feasting on the maggots themselves. How do you bring it in this debate? Are you likening Chikopa to Nchelelebula???? Lol!!!!!
My comment is for # 3 @ Lion & Eagle.
Interesting! isn’t it? Only a thief can catch another thief. So now the thieves are fighting.
Elyo lwanya.
Mmembe borrowed money from DBZ to fund PF campaigns. Zambians wake up.
One question I always ask myself is, “what is it with us Zambian?” Can’t we see that this Chipako guy is getting paid for doing nothing. Why not deport him? Let’s wake up guys! MP’s please find out how much this guy is getting monthly and bill Sata after he exits plot one.
Judge Chikopo might be sharing the allowances with State House. Ask Chelsea
Judge Chikopa or Chikopo’s stay and hanging to the whole matter is meant to feed himself and his family, not necessarily for justice’s sake. The longer he stays the more money he makes to himself.
He ‘in short’ can be described ‘best’ as such (Nchelelebula). Sue him so he can spend some of our monies in courts to hire lawyers.
Nchelelebula.
@Kanyengambeta (whats the meaning of your Name or title?)Judge Chikopa or Chikopo’s stay and hanging to the whole matter is meant to feed himself and his family, not necessarily for justice’s sake. The longer he stays the more money he makes to himself.
He ‘in short’ can be described ‘best’ as such (Nchelelebula). Sue him so he can spend some of our monies in courts to hire lawyers.
Nchelelebula.
This is an occasion for Judge Chikopa to face the true mechanisms relating to the processes in the administration of the Rule of Law which is well rooted in Zambia’s legal system. The outcome will expose the grave limitations of Malawi’s legal brains relative to other states in the SADC and AU.
Had the Malawian Law Society been endowed with genes to interpret the due processes of Law, Malawi should have long counselled Chikopa to return to Malawi. In future we shall assess Malawins’ law training and comprehension of judicial systems with a pinch of salt.
This case is going no where . Its a stater in futility…..they are useless rantings of the year…
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.