The Lusaka High Court has granted the Attorney General, Mulilo Kabesha leave to commence contempt proceedings against PF Member of the Central Committee in Charge of Information and Publicity, Raphael Nakachinda over his alleged contemptuous remarks against the judiciary.
The court has also allowed Mr. Nakachinda to make some necessary applications regarding the matter.
On Tuesday, the Attorney General filed an affidavit in support of summons for leave to commence contempt proceedings.
Mr. Nakachinda is alleged to have said that President Hakainde Hichilema has been summoning judges to his house to persuade them to bring a one-party state amidst the hearing of a judicial review application by Eight PF Members of Parliament who have challenged Speaker of the National Assembly, Nelly Mutti’s decision to chase them from parliament after the nullification of their seats.
The Attorney General says Mr. Nakachinda’s uttered words mean and were understood by the public to mean that there is interference in the deliberations of the judges.
He submitted that the words used by Mr. Nakachinda are an interference with the administration of justice by giving an impression to the public that any outcome of the judges’ decision that will go against the applicants would have been as a result of the alleged threats or manipulation by the Republican President.
Mr. Kabesha says Mr. Nakachinda’s allegations are malicious, contemptuous and made with the intention to bring the judiciary into disrepute.
He further submitted that Mr. Nakachinda has damaged the reputation of the judiciary and brought its independence into question and therefore he must show cause why he must not be sent to prison for contempt of court.
The problem with dullards like Nakachinda is they think its Lazy Lungu’s govt where there was lawlessness you can not issue such statements without evidence…PF all those years in govt you can not even nurture credible spokespersons instead you opt for a chancer!!
Its called the land of laws….
You are in deep S.HIT bro
Lack of respect, lack of education and lack of common sense. You fools will learn the hard way…this is not the PF administration how many times are we going to remind you. I may not be a big UPND supporter but I am just so happy to see normalcy again.
Nakachinda has strong lawyers, the case will not go anywhere. Even if he is sent to prison, the outcome of the case against PF mps will be biased. We all know what is on the ground.
Judges are just buying time thru Nakachinda.
There is freedom of speech and there is also libel and slander. Know the difference.
I had a little respect for hh but all that is now gone. He is the biggest arsehole in Africa.
God is fair , He has given UPND opportunity to prove their promise to lead. He will himself determine how long they lead.
We are just going through the motions. Even if Nakachinda is found guilty and sent to prison and the main case is determined against the PF MPs, inevitably the case will end up in the constitutional court as final arbiter. Assuming again that the constitutional court throws out the case, the speaker will declare the seats vacant and by elections will be held.
There is absolutely no guarantee that upnd will win all the nine by elections. In fact, if anything, we will more or less be back to square one.
Result? We are merely in a merry go round. Different players, same stuff and going nowhere.
Even commenting on the case on LT is contemptuous. We should now wait for the case to conclude then we can debate.