When we heard that former president, the “almighty” Edgar Chagwa Lungu would be addressing the nation the other day; most of us were obviously taken aback! Isn’t a sitting head of state the only one entitled to address the nation at any given time? Isn’t this more the reason why ZNBC, our national broadcaster, has to disrupt its programming to cover such an important event?
It seems ba Lungu is yet to recover from the shock of being ejected from plot 1, unceremoniously; he may be entertaining imaginations that he’s still wielding powers to draw the nation’s attention at any given time.
To cut the long story short, when ba Lungu finally made it on our small screens or indeed featured on several social media outlets; he appeared inebriated as usual……he was sweating profusely while his speech sounded slurred and uncoordinated, at times. This not withstanding though, we still managed to grasp a few highlights hither and thiter which have prompted this write-up.
The first issue ba Lungu tackled were the legal petitions regarding his eligibility to stand as a Presidential candidate in both 2021 and beyond!
As we are all possibly aware, the former president has since rushed to court to seek legal redress.
He prayed as thus last night, “You are aware that recently, there have been legal petitions against my eligibility to stand as a presidential candidate in both 2021 and the future.
My hopes and prayers are that there will be respect accorded to my application currently before court, to help restore confidence in the courts and the Judiciary.”
As a top-notch lawyer, we obviously expect ba Lungu to be familiar with a legal term known as “less adjudicator.” This simply entails that a matter can easily be restored in our courts of law if fresh grounds have been established. Guided by this principle, the petitioner was left with little or no option, but to head back to court and resurrect this matter. Among the many grounds cited in the petition, is obviously the issue of specialized qualifications of the affected judges; a similar concern which was equally raised by various experts following the appointment of the said judges.
If ba Lungu is indeed a top-notch lawyer as he wants us to believe, how come he has challenges understanding this provision?
If we may interrogate his so-called address to the nation further, it’s quite cunning and hypocritical for ba Lungu to wake-up today and pretend he respects our courts of law.
When the matter of his eligibility came up in court during his tenure for instance, he threatened to go the “Kenya way” by dissolving the entire judiciary, indiscriminately! Worse still, he went ahead and unleashed his uncouth and brutal PF cadres to go and intimidate the judges by setting-up base on the court premises. They put up braii stands and spent some time devouring enormous kilos of beef and gulping countless amounts of alcoholic beverages as they chanted slogans and sung songs of praise and solidarity with their great humble leader!
Given the above, can one still insist the top-notch lawyer is a lawful citizen who religiously subscribes to the rule of law as opposed to man? Ubufi! Wenye! Boza! Makudi! Bubela! Lies!
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Prince Bill M Kaping’a
Political/Social Analyst
Can you be quiet for some time and reflect? Life isn’t just about talking. HH will leave office one day and you’ll face the people alone. What’s your conscience? How many youths have lost their lives at that slime dump due to illegal mining activities? By the way you aren’t helping HH at all. Instead, you have made many youths and their parents be annoyed against authorities that include the Head of Government. People are still mourning
Lungu is going nowhere, so the sooner we stop giving him more unnecessary coverage the better. Zambia has no shortage of potential presidents.
These chaps are so preoccupied with Lungu at the expense of fixing what they said they would fix. Time is going, we already removed Lungu, that is in the past. Stop wasting time by talking and talking. We know jobs are hard and one has to be recognised but not by using Lungus name please. Start working, so far nothing is happening, we have a shortage of mealie meal for the first time since 1991 and not because of drought. The exchange rate was already exposing your failures even before the drought – fact
Can the government in power start working please. I voted for you.You have very little time. Bring mechanised farming to peasants, see how you can control externalisation of proceeds from the mines which leaves our country with just a few crumbs, ensure the Police stop detentions of the Politicians longer than what the law prescribes, buy vitz for ministerial cars and explain why the exchange rate did not improve between inauguration time and 10hrs on the day of swearing in, was there a drought in between that period as well. Answers please
Lusaka time your coverage and reporting of Mr Lungu is very biased and one sided . You use to be a go to news and now you have become president HH voice or mouth. The former President or Dr Lungu or any other citizen are free to speak or hold a press conference.
This article is clearly written by a government sympathizer or who knows . Please go back to roots LT and report and readers will decide . Where on earth did you get the idea that only the President can address the nation?
let Ba lugu stand kwasila what are you scared of