Supreme Court Rules, GBM Wins Back Parliamentary Seat

UPND Vice President Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba has won back his Kasama Central seat in the Supreme Court.
Last year, speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini expelled Mr. Mwamba popularly known as GBM from Parliament and subsequently declared his seat vacant for holding dual membership.
This followed Mr Mwamba’s appointment as UPND Vice President for Administration, a move which meant he had crossed the floor in contravention of article 71(2)C of the constitution.

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48 Responses to Supreme Court Rules, GBM Wins Back Parliamentary Seat

Lucy

March 22, 2016 at 2:56 pm

UPND 100: PF ECL 0. And now wait for 8/11 for clear all rubbish around.
- Lucy
  
  March 22, 2016 at 2:57 pm
  
  meant “to clear”
mj banda

March 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm

So GBM is a traitor.
counsel

March 22, 2016 at 3:09 pm

He is in dat seat for de last time,he won’t regain it trust me. His political career is nt as big as he looks.
Tombanoko

March 22, 2016 at 3:13 pm

Lucy Waba Amenshi Mundofu!
sir George

March 22, 2016 at 3:19 pm

It is always just to follow the law,isnt it a shame and disgrace for Matibini? pf speaker who cant interpret the law,limbi naena takwete GCE,he just sat for aptude test.
nshilandafye

March 22, 2016 at 3:31 pm

imwe ba tumfweko. which dual citizenship? You should have put it in inverted commas to sound figutative. Are there teachers of English lang on the copperbelt?
- Ken
  
  March 22, 2016 at 3:47 pm
  
  Imwe naimwe read again, it does not say dual citizenship but membership!!!!!
  My foot.
Hello Haters

March 22, 2016 at 3:38 pm

The speaker erred. Pwapwapwapwapwa!
TUMELO

March 22, 2016 at 3:46 pm

Thats y PF speaker ati (MATIBINI)
kuwayawaya fe.
Ken

March 22, 2016 at 3:53 pm

That is law in zed for you. They rule as they wish by reading any such similar case that happened in the 17th Century. I know what I am saying.
How can this be?
How could you have dual membership?
How do you remain in the party you are fighting day and night?

This Country is so pathetic to say the list. It is actually just shit amafi!

I am so so sorry this must be a very bad dream and I hope to wake fast.

Aaaaaaaggggggggjhhhhh!!!!!
- Isaac
  
  March 23, 2016 at 9:40 am
  
  @ master Ken am at pain. It does not need one to be lawyer to understand this. How can some one be loyal to two different organizations. As you have rightly said, how can some be a member of a party he/she is insulting day in day out? This is indeed an animal farm. I have never been puzzled like this and never seen a judgement of this nature almost my entire life.
  - Mike
    
    March 23, 2016 at 1:45 pm
    
    Isaac, do u realise that those MMD and UPND Deputy Ministers campaigned and supported PF in the 2015 elections and subsequent elections? How can a UPND or MMD member campaign for another party other than his? did they receive any sanctions? NO! But because GBM is supporting PF u want him punished? the court in my view was absolutely right in its judgement.
    - Mike
      
      March 23, 2016 at 1:47 pm
      
      Sorry ‘because GBM is supporting UPND’ u want him sanctioned?
masuzyo

March 22, 2016 at 4:02 pm

Together we win……congrats GBM
Forward chabe…..HH & UPND
Mano Chishinka

March 22, 2016 at 4:05 pm

Iwe Nshilandafye be sure your English is good before you laugh at other people’s English. Yours is in fact worse. What does “FIGUTATIVE” mean? There is no such word my friend. The word you are looking for is FIGURATIVE.
masuzyo

March 22, 2016 at 4:21 pm

GBM didn’t resign as member of parliament for kasama central constituency, but he resigned or religuished his ministerial position as Defense Minister . So he is still representing pipo of Kasama as kasama mp, period . Bravo my Judge…..
GBM knwz law hahahahahaha…..
ps

March 22, 2016 at 4:35 pm

courts hav seen that change is coming.
Richman

March 22, 2016 at 4:41 pm

Laws were made for poor people. That is why it is impossible for me to be poor.
Chovix

March 22, 2016 at 4:46 pm

There is nothing to be happy about naimwe ba UPND unless we read the whole judgement then we will be able to tell, not those few sentences in the article.
- Boyd
  
  March 22, 2016 at 5:41 pm
  
  Judgement had issue like similar proceedings in high court
- MMD Cadre
  
  March 23, 2016 at 10:30 am
  
  But the writing is there in BLACK & WHITE, MATIBINI was simply being biased. Remember the supersonic speed at which RB’s immunity was removed by the same Matibini, because RB was not a friend of PF, but now that RB shares the same bed with Lungu, if the same immunity were to be debated in Parliament, you would see how Matibini would side with RB. Bias at its best.
sir George

March 22, 2016 at 5:33 pm

@chovix,efye nkwebela ati taukwete amano,judgement has been made and in the highest court of the land,what will reading all the paragraphs do? It simply mean you cant apeal anywhere kxkxkx,bamatibini bu lawyer balilingana with a certain president i know.
Limpo

March 22, 2016 at 5:48 pm

So we still have justice in our courts, I hope this judge wont be intimidated by one lazy bum who is used to see blood shed from innocent Zambians. He cant even control his cadres and has forgotten that politics come and go so is leadership. However, spilled blood will forever be in your records as a leader.
kanayo

March 22, 2016 at 6:04 pm

like someone said that the law pa zed applies differently from one person to the other. bane ziko niyatu tonse.
DABWITSO MWAMBA

March 22, 2016 at 6:05 pm

Honestly , how could the speaker have made such a selective decision? Most MMD and UPND MPs are working as Ministers in PF but the speaker could not declare their seats vacant. If GBM had stopped receiving his salary. Let him claim for a back date in his salary so that he can use that money to give out to the poor voters. I mean the man is already rich. He , unlike other politicians , is not into politics in order to enrich himself. Those that are after enriching themselves are busy increasing their salaries while civil servant’s and students’ allowances are being scraped off. JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING.11 th AUGUST.
Cluds

March 22, 2016 at 6:17 pm

#PFout
MyZambia

March 22, 2016 at 7:22 pm

Tumfweko, you need to correct your story, its not the Supreme Court but the High Court.
kajob

March 22, 2016 at 7:29 pm

fools are happy for gbm without knowing that abavala pamenso no bachaya colopa.com next month parliament is dissolved and he will be un mp for not more than 3 weeks.kikikiki
- jakob
  
  March 24, 2016 at 8:57 am
  
  Well at least he fought for his rights in the courts of law and will be remunerated for the months he should have been in Parliament whilst you fools “blog” useless thisgs about him. Its time to rise above stupidity and pettiness. Find better thisng to do.
ps

March 22, 2016 at 8:04 pm

ladies and gentle men u are free to kill sum1 as long as u ar wearing pf ligalia even in the presence of police. kikikiki ati 18 october yaaba.
ASSAGE

March 22, 2016 at 9:28 pm

These are the same judges who resist the same courts becoz they know what they do. Look at Mutembo Nchito who doesnt want to sit on the same chair he liked to put his friends on. The judge would have compeled GBM to suport PF or choose between the two parties not belonging to two parties.
New Educated Zambia©√

March 22, 2016 at 9:33 pm

What a waste of tax payers money trying to fight gbm in the hope that he would lose his seat. The pf do not think about the poor people who are suffering. Can we be told how much govt spent om lawyers.? Anyway august nipafupi. Viva zambia viva upnd
Nikambeko

March 22, 2016 at 10:21 pm

Let GBM now be taught a lesson through the ballot. It seems law has failed in Zambia!!
Humphrey

March 22, 2016 at 10:49 pm

NDELOLESHAFYEEEEEEEE!
Talkan

March 22, 2016 at 11:32 pm

Add your comment matibini must resign on moral grounds. and th big fools were already campainig 4 th seat vanyaala wooo filetumbula namenso kwti ci generator ca ba zesco.
NONPATZAN

March 23, 2016 at 6:09 am

MJBANDA IN CASE U WERE BORN YERSTERDAY THAT IS HOW THE WIND OF CHANGE STARTED, EVEN WHEN WE KICKED KK OUT,THE OTHER DAY IT WAS KALUSHA THE FOLLOW DAY MATIBINI NEXT DIWAMENE IWE,LET GO TO NDOLA IN NUMBERS AND SUPPORT OUR NEW FAZ PRESIDO,TESTING,TESTING!
mj banda

March 23, 2016 at 7:55 am

@nonpartisan, am as old as your father
k

March 23, 2016 at 11:06 am

fat Albert becomes puff daddy after reaching orgasm
pupu pufi katufi

March 23, 2016 at 11:23 am

Look at this senario. Our very own Siamenen Hon is UPND but is handling a senior position in Government. Was he told to reinquish his parliamentary seat. Hell no. So all we are seeing is the beggining of better days to come of course under the vibrant commune of technocrats known as UPND.
- kakolwe
  
  March 25, 2016 at 4:25 am
  
  You are the ‘ifikopo’ who cannot distinguish between a political party and government. PF is not government and government is not PF. An elected MP is a representative of the people and that is why the law is explicitly clear that Ministerial positions (or govt) shall be appointed from Members of Parliament! Not ruling party.
  Sata, Mazoka and hakainde never understood this. And all opposition parties regard their member who serves in govt as a traitor? Ebukopo ubu.
upendi

March 23, 2016 at 11:58 am

Koma alibe gledi tweluvu
MANDANDA

March 23, 2016 at 12:42 pm

GBM NOT FACTOR, UPND WILL NEVER RULE THIS COUNTRY. TRIBE PARTY, BEATING UP OPPONENTS, WHAT IF TONGAS WERE IN POWER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, THERE WOULD BE LAWLESSNESS!
IF NOT

March 23, 2016 at 4:21 pm

Parliament will be dissolved in a few weeks time so………………………………….what benefit has GBM got esp that he will not retain that position after 11th August.
KATOMBA WAFINYO

March 23, 2016 at 8:57 pm

Hmmm i can see someone crying on 11th august
mj banda

March 23, 2016 at 9:06 pm

If GBM had lost then we would have heard that the courts are partisan. Come Aug they will cry in Tonga bane!
Brian

March 25, 2016 at 7:44 pm

Pf 100%