Inspector General of Police Stella Libongani has said that the charges against the fugitive son of former President Rupiah Banda, Henry can only be revealed when he presents himself for question before law enforcement officers.
The Inspector General was reacting to South African High Commissioner to Zambia Moses Chikane who is quoted as saying that his country cannot extradite Henry to their Zambian counterparts in the absence of charges.
Ms Libongani said it is now the responsibility of Interpol to avail the details of Henry Banda’s case to South Africa since the Zambian government has handed over the details to French based police organisation.
Henry, the most prominent son of former president Rupiah Banda is wanted for questioning in connection with the engagement of RP Capital Group to evaluate Zamtel assets at the cost of $2 million and the subsequent sale of the company to LAP Green of Libya.
The Zambian government has since reversed the sale of Zamtel and returned 100 percent ownership of the telecommunications company.
And Ms. Libongani has observed that intellectual property rights violation poses serious threats to the country than just economic loss to the rights’ holder.
She says the failure to protect intellectual property rights undermines confidence in the economy, removes opportunities for growth, erodes the country’s technical advantages and disrupts fairness and competitiveness in the market place.
Ms. Libongani said this at Lilayi Police College in Lusaka this morning during the opening of a five day decentralization training seminar on intellectual property enforcement organized by the British American Tobacco.
She says the focus of the programme is to ensure that at the end of the course, the police service should be in a position to decentralize the functions performed by the IPU unit at the police headquarters to other provinces of the country.
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This is classic. Show me yours and i will show you mine.
So the top police official in Zambia expects H Banda to avail himself to be charged. This is nonsense.
this is a non starter because henry will never reveal himself to police in zambia thats for sure, this case is going nowhere,
” Henry’s charges can only be revealed if he presents himself-Inspector General ”
Why, are the charges ‘secret’?
Or did the writer of this article ‘misunderstand’, because apparently charges were made available to Interpol?
” Ms. Libongani has observed that intellectual property rights violation poses serious threats to the country than just economic loss to the rights’ holder. ”
Really? Is copyright protection the most pressing concern of the government?
Secret charges, suppressing the press – not a good way to start for the PF.
Tekanya m’dala
Charges are read to a person in their presence, and a statement recorded. You don’t convey charges through a third party. Where have you ever heard that a person has been charged before being arrested?
He shows up,you charge him,arrest him and deny him bail,no sane person can come,he is ok being home then.I think Stella should stay away from issues beyond her comprehesion.Thanks
Is HB innocent or does he know he has committed crimes, therefore he cannot come to Zambia to answer for himself?
Sorry, Madam – I don’t think this is how extradition treaties work.
Madam IG Sir, mwaitaya….the guy willnever show up! Ine namvera nsoni monga ndine kapokola.
Pipo cool down and spare madam Stella. Wheels of justice take long. Keep it up young lady.
legal matters you grade 7 zambian cop.
I think our cops should at least go to school mwe…This is becoming quite embarrassing and now the IG is now shifting responsibility to the French interpol to educate the south africans on the Henry Banda case.This is your mess you started and you finish it.Leave the French and South Africans out of it.
Kapena henry committed adulterly (chigololo)… mulandu wa chigololo ni wovuta! ngati bamba palibe.
Kekekekekekek……stop smoking that grass baba!
Its seems like there is a competition for the comedian of the year in Zambia. Unkwa and now this woman
Ngena mumotoka iwe. Uzakambila kusogolo. Sham police justice at its best. For Henry, it would be ‘ngena mujele iwe, uzakamba first unyobeko. Uganiza ati tate wako akali pulezidenti iwe. Iyayi. Bwana twacingenesa ichi chimwana chaba RB. Chenze chinasoba manje twachigwila’.
lol :(( well its true if they want him they have to tell him for what. What if he got back and they told him its wars crimes hahaha olo ati its a silly case like your where sleeping with your business associates wife atase.
We all know they want him purely on speculation
This is the best she could come up with? She must have been caught unawares because if they have charges it wont be difficult to avail the details to the South African Government. Otherwise they can forget about henry.
Does this so called IG understand the basics of extradition treaties? And this is the so called IG of Zambia.
hmm zedians, muli nama nyozo kwambili. Manyozo Forwarding Party (MFP)
hahahahahahahaha. U made me laugh big time.
which law is the IG applying? i remember Julian Assange charged before being extradited. same with all those charged for wall crimes by ICJ. Please spare us and learn to apply international law when dealing with other countries.where is Malama kanshi? we need him for this position
Malama is the one who issued the red alert.Thats why RB referred to him as being silly.
i meant war crimes
Simbilingani wa Libongani lol every well meaning lozi knows about the fun in this book kekekekekek
HE IS WANTED FOR SALE OF ZAMTEL AND HIS RELATIONS TO THOSE THEIVES RP CAPITAL. WHY CAN’T HE PRESENT HIMSELF IF NOT GUILTY?? HENRY KNOWS WHAT HE HAS DONE THIS IS WHY HE IS ON THE RUN. SHAME ON ZAMBIANS WHO SUPPORT SUCH NONSENSE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD STEAL AND GET AWAY WITH IT.
Nothing personal but the Banda Boys really Took Zambians for a ride. THEY HAD ALL CONTRACTS INCLUDING ROAD MAINTENANCE AND JDID NOTHING BUT GOT PAID. DAY LIGHT ROBBERY TO POOR ZAMBIANS.
No 18 if what you say is true… what is preventing IG to lay charges? No law starts that to lay charges the guilty person must be present. I don’t know which law you reading….
Stella has just joined the bandwagon of *****s. If she didn’t know what to say, she could at least have asked for a written questionaire and then given it to some professionals to answer it for her. It’s like the Zambia Police are refusing to act professionally otherwise they’ll be transfered to,er like, Shangombo.
Uko, malawi, angola, kenya, botswana, south africa and now FRANCE: Bafikala mutisebanya imwe. Henry, and the entire state machinery kushula bwi, bwi, bwi.
On point 1 – HB is innocent til proven guilty and pretty sure the government will work towards charges if they have the evidence. Until then the rest is just politics and international politics. South Africans have taken quite a rough ride trying to get that Brit Asian chap to face trials do they had a little tussle with Brit versus Sa versus human rights themselves:)
On point 2 – I sincerely hope that IP in the constitution will be heavily revised and updated. I work in this arena and was once a victim of our own delay when my IP was being abused globally because it was still buried in a statute along with mining and pharmaceutical rights and working off 1911 British law where ‘natives’ were not covered… At any rate it forced me out of Zed after WIPO came the first time round.
Ever since this woman threated to investigate her Uncle the Prime Minister C. Sinyinda, what ever she says is unless. All what Mr. M. Chikane was clarifying is that Henry is a free person in South Africa. SA High Commissioner to Zambia Moses Chikane has said that Former President’s Son Henry Banda cannot be handed over to the Zambian authorities just because they are needed for questioning. The High Commissioner said that his government would need solid charges before extradition can take place. Its only in Zambia that where you arrest people without solid charges.
Henry’s return to Zambia may be complicated further by the fact that South Africa does not extradite people to countries that have a death penalty such as Zambia, no matter what nature of crime they have committed because of the Bill of Rights in their constitution.
“Our Bill of Rights, which we take very seriously, does not allow us to extradite people to countries that have a death penalty,” Mr Chikane said, and continued: “It doesn’t matter if somebody killed a hundred people, we can’t extradite them to a country with a death penalty,” he said. – WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO STELLA LIBONGANI? EVEN A LAY MAN KNOWS THIS THAT THE POLICE CANT ARREST A PERSON AT ANY EMBASSY IN ANY COUNTRY.
No wonder SA has refused to release him, Henry committed an unknown crime at an unknown time and date and whilst acting together with unknown people. As far as we are concerned he has no case to answer.
She has a point in the sense that they have cleverly handed over the matter to a french group which will be able to hand charges to SA.
Henry will then apply for assylum on grounds that he may be victimised in zambia. The libyan group will suffer loss and will start pushing pressure on SA to release him so that their case can have basis for compesation. Zambia has very little to lose if henry is not released but the libyan will go for his blood in SA.
SA knows that Zambia is a police state….u accussed Nevers mumba …mugwileni kaili…who is the accussing finger…is it thye appointing finger.
WHY CANT HENRY SHOW HIMSELF UP IF HE HAS NO CASE TO ANSWER?? ZAMTEL WAS REVERSED AND HE WAS PART OF THE DEAL SO FOR HIM NOT TO COME AND CLEAR HIS NAME PIPO WILL ALWAYS SPECULATE… BA HENRY JUST COME AND CLEAR YOUR NAME FULL STOP..
Its called “The Bill of Rights” its only in a backward country like Zambia were you arrest people without charges and taken to a kangaroo court or a COE
The SA ambassador is spot on.
Even his father wont come back from the USA. Zambia tolerate criminality thats why everyone goes scott free. Enjoy South Africa Henry.
It is simple, Henry is in Libya being hosted by Lap Green..Give them back Zamtel and they will give you Henry
Interpol being conversant with international law are just laughing at ZP….tinajaila kugwila ba kabwalala ba mu komboni not ba mafia like RB and sons!
Henry was not a government employee. So what if he introduced or even got a cut from RP capital. It was a business transaction. The only problem here is that the government wants to punish him for that role. They can’t separate business no matter how bad the deal was from criminal acts. We got Zamtel let us move on with our lives. Henry will now become even more powerful like this. The more you fight the mafia the more powerful they become.
The SA High Commissioner was very clear and was even polite to spell the conditions out because as professionals you madam should have known the international conditions for extraditing someone. But you seem to be arguing with set conditions so what happens? You wont get what you want. The international community are just thinking you are dull, now.
extradition treaties require that a person is charged and you present the CHARGES, not just that he is required for questioning
mweo bantu ni zanu ndalama za mukuti neiba neo…bulali fulu godemeti bati…kapena ni zauso? hahaha kekeke keekeke!! Nway this drama is entertaining!
well spoken # 18.
f SA has similar laws to Namibia, then what happens is that after a request, the person is arrested and brought before a magistrate and it’s up to the country that wants the person to prove before a judge why the person must be extradited. It’s up to the Zambian government to prove to the SA judge that Henry has committed crime and there is ground for him to arrested. The PF does not understand international law.
People have been charged and tried in absentia…..charge hery and try him in absentia. Convict him in absentia…then if its Genuine SA will hand him over…No No abolish death penalty first…oweeee mayo! 4get it !
that would be very unfair as its things stands the zambian government has not given the international community to prove this guy is a criminal as opposed to hearsay which they have been doing all along. remember henry has no criminal record here in south africa and that will prove difficult to extradite him to zambia..
I agree with you Lundazi Dweller, I mean what crime has he committed? I have never really understood the crime that Lap Green committed. EG-I am a prospective buyer and I sell myself well to a middle man who introduces me to you, the seller and your entire family, I pitch myself so well that you lower your price, I mean the gem is in your house. I do this not at gun point, no duress or any other promise except looking after it well, you fall for it, why should I be liable? Henry has no OBLIGATION to hand himself to the police at all; make their work easier, let them sweat it out. Look at how the FBI looks for people, maybe copy some ideas. So madam Stella please run to the AG for further advice on the extradition issue. Muno mu Zambia circus tayakapwe kanshi? SWITCH ON!!!
Hire George Kunda to be legal adviser to PF…..manje naye apolomya!
This is fishing a expedition and a total violation of international law. Mr Banda should not avail himself to a justice system operated by political cadres and no matter what he does or who he hires to represent him, the probability that he win the case is 0.00000000000000001. Libongani should respect international law and there is no government on earth that handover a suspect to be tortured.
At least we know were he is…
Project Management and running a country are two very different issues. Will see how this case ends. We have to be serious before embarking on these embarrassing “requests” or ventures across the Zambezi River without doing our assignments or home-work.
Stella, could you take time to read through the extradition laws and conditions before you say anything more?
the circus continues,its nt jst the politicians or kalusha’s faz but professionals,career police officer,top cop for that matter.these institutions need complete overhaul in terms of training,equipment & management.we are probably expecting too much frm stela,the mmd destroyed everything only to leave us wth low inflation as their best archievement.we need radical & sweeping decisions to move this country forward.for now comedy wil continue.take heed!
@19 The Engineer???If Henry is not guilty why should he be on the run?? You think his acts will solve this problem?? He is just making people speculate. LET HIM CLEAR HIS NAME???
LET this be a Lesion to ALL POLITICIAN Children in ZAMBIA. Don’t take advantage of your Fathers positions and steal from ZAMBIANS. HE SHOULD GO BACK TO ZAMBIA; WE ARE A FREE COUNTRY WITH JUSTICE SYSTEM. NGA BAKABOLALA LIKE DORA?? ARE THEY IN JAIL? But they were questioned right?? This is fear of unknown. HE SHOULD BE A MAN WITH BIG BALLS. FISANGA ABANTU SO GO BACK HOME IWE HENRY.
She is inside
This is classic. Avail yourself and you are a thief and if you do not avail yourself then you are innocent. This is in the movies. This is El Pacino in the movies. I like Zambia with ignorant achaic way of thinking. Forward with ignorance. I end here!
@sheikh you obviously dont live here. This man has been tried in the media based on pure speculation and tavern gossip peddled by postmortem newspaper and daily pf mail. Dora is inside without bail and before a trial for a bailable charge. Haters like you is precisely whay South Africa has seen fit to pull out the bill of rights on the issue of extradition. ‘clear his name’ with you and your lot? If you believe anyone would be insane enough to risk that there can be fair due process for that to happen in the prevailing situation, you must be smoking something…. with Ukwa!
Comedy continues! I think the RSA High Commisioner summed it up well; this is a non-starter until specific charges are laid on the table. I bet you, we’ll be talking about this till 2016 (assuming we even reach that far!). PF should focus on governing while the police should silently investigate and only publicize when they make an arrest and charge the accused. Thereafter, the due process of the law should take it’s course. What we’re witnessing now is a circus full of clowns and entertainers.
Ok, what the hell is going on here? First, ZP says Henry is a fugitive and seeks Interpol help to locate him. Then we hear, he is in Kenya, then we told by his father last week, that Henry has permanent residence in SA, where he is happily living with his faimly. This does NOT sound like a fugitive to me. Something is not adding up here. If the police are aware of his whereabouts, why not involve that country’s police wings to arrest him? I took the liberty to got to the interpol website: http://www(dot)interpol(dot)int/Wanted-Persons and there search fro Henry Banda. He is there, though there’s no picture of him. Bu the charge is definitely, FRAUD. So, what is the deal between, ZP and the SA official? Arrest Henry already, damn!!!!!
Inspector General it appears you as much as the President have no knowledge of the law my husband Mr Rajani Mathani says under South African law the Zambia Police Service is required to apply to the South African Courts for extradition of Henry Banda giving valid grounds then if the courts find the grounds deserving Henry will be extradited. Otherwise IG go suck eggs you are barking up a wrong tree
Ndipo walasa Big Pipe. We are really being entertained by these PF clowns. I am not even sure when this entertainment will come to an end. Maybe by 2016. I feel we were cursed on that day as a nation to have such governance full of stupid errors. We really have to pray hard I tell you. We are in for more waves of shock. Ni Big Pipe yabwaji iyo baBigPipe. You are leaving too much to imagination. I end here!
The Inspector General of Police Libongani should be advised to work professionally, and NEVER act as a PF cadre. The life-span of her bread winner is about to eclipse in a few days time. She is openly participating in the persecution of RB’s Family.You better start reading science to get an alternate job for which she was properly trained for her BSc degree at UNZA. It will not be long when we shall be expressing alarm and disgust when we meet her on the streets. South Africa respects the Rule of Law and therefore will not cooperate to foster Kangarroo Courts in Zambia. We are cofident that God will answer the National Prayer to restore this country to normality. Let Libongani appreciate the meaning of parables!
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#50,which stela bread winer wil eclipse,4get coz u wl hit dust much earlier u prophet of doom.stela ayitaya yes bt ar u sure the cobra tels her wat to say?get real moron!
Hiding behind Interpol. Interpol is used when a fugitive’s whereabouts are unknown. When you know where the alleged criminal is staying, you simply apply to that country’s justice ministry for extradiction if you have an extradiction treaty with them. I am just wondering whether we have learned Police officers in Zambia. This is not even a case of the Police but the Justice Ministry and Attorney General in Zambia. What we are seeing here is pure political posturing to tarnish a person’s image. If Henry Banda turned up, they will lock him up, water board him until he turns witness against his father. This is all leading to getting at RB.
# 47 Sheikh. Tell your PF govt to spell out charges and offences Henry committed and hand them over to South Africa and if proven correct, South Africa is under obligation to hand over Henry to Zambian authority. If you care to read well go over what IG Libongani states in her article. Its totally immature and senseless. She doesn’t even know what to tell the public. In short she expects Henry to come to Zambia and will not do so as long as she is not ready to say the offence committed. Whose ball is this?
It’s shameful and backward mentality for people to continue thinking that Zambian cops are grade 7s. That madam, is a graduate and highly professional than some of you who have no tertiary qualification. shame on you No.8. Iam a Zambian cop working overseas and making my life better. Don’t remain in the past. Go to UNZA and get statistic of Police officers studing there now.
O.K let them act like professionals, otherwise their education, that you are claiming they have, is meaningless.Right now the IG is acting like a G7
let Henry Banda avail himself to the police, why is he hiding? He knows the crime he has done period.
He is under no such obligation. The police should get him; do you know that even that call out is not an obligation on the suspect to avail themselves to the police. The police issue call out because they do not have logistics to get to the alleged suspect. So they (police) can sing all they want as an an alleged suspect you have a right to stay put.
So, how are the BRE talks going? There are real issues out there. This is not one of them. this can wait. let pf get busy and with time and facts, they can continue with the witch hunt and comedy.
ur looking for Rupiah Banda son but u le father go to USA
On interpol website:
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Your national or local police
Looks like an AD in sangwapo
Ba LT, it’s retained ownership not returned…geez
What goes around comes around. he will be connered one day………? you can run but you cant hide………..you can fool some people sometimes but you can not fool them all the time. every thing has its time eclesiates says, time to run and time to rest and time to gather and time to scatter, time to be born and time to die……time to be own up as well………
…thank the ever hard working IT engineers for making it possible for you to insult people, classify everything as comedy or idiocy…for you have no balls to make such utterances in the real world or even here but using your real names. Foul mouthed armchair analysts or should I say ‘Cowards’!
This IG is crazy!!!! I wonder why we have some Grade 7 girls in such positions – maybe Bottom Power or Relative of Ukwa.
Henry is under no such obligation. The police should get him; do you know that even that call out is not an obligation on the suspect to avail themselves to the police. The police issue call out because they do not have logistics to get to the alleged suspect. So they (police) can sing all they want as an an alleged suspect you have a right to stay put.
No.67 and you have the…. to say what you have to say to us who are criticizing. Come out with your full personal details.
@69 Dull as usual, I have the … to say what I have to say to you but to your face. However, I don’t have the … to insult you not even whilst hiding behind a keyboard.
Look at your post in 69. It is clean and informative. That’s how civilized people criticize. The whole point of constructive criticism gets missed when you punctuate your utterances with foul language…that’s just plain insulting!