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Govt For the Third Time Refuses to Release RB’s Passport Despite Court Order
FORMER President Rupiah Banda has for the third time failed to travel out of Zambia, this time to Tanzania for the Global 2013 Smart Partnership dialogue after State agencies could not release his passport on Friday.
The former head of state was to join other former Heads of States at the Dialogue, and these include Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, Joachim Chissano of Mozambique, and Jerry Rawlings of Ghana who are bestowed with the status of Fellow Emeritus due to their involvement with the Smart Partnership Dialogue.
This followed a latest court order allowing him to be out of the country for four days.
On Thursday Lusaka High Court judge Anesi Banda-Bobo ordered the State to release Mr Banda’s passport after the former president filed inter parte summons to vary bond conditions, and for an order for release of the passport pursuant to Section 126(3) of the Criminal Procedure Court.
Justice Banda-Bobo’s ruling read: “The application to vary bail conditions is hereby granted, and the State is directed to release the passport to enable the applicant (Banda) to travel to Tanzania from 28th June to 2nd July, 2013. The passport is to be released into the custody of Mikatazo Wakumelo, one of the sureties who shall accompany him so that he surrenders the passport immediately upon return to the State.
“The government joint investigative team (GJIT) is ordered to release the passport for a period of four days only, from 28th June to 2nd July, 2013.”
But yesterday, Mr Wakumelo, who is also administrative secretary in the Office of the Fourth President, told the media that the passport has not been released.
“We are not travelling because the passport has not been released. He was supposed to travel yesterday [Friday] but when I went to the government joint investigative team, they told me to go to the Registrar General where I was told to go to the Chief Passports Officer. There I was told to go to the Ministry of Home Affairs but the permanent secretary [Willies Manjimela] was not there in the afternoon.
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wayne
July 1, 2013 at 6:44 am
If the government can ignore this law(ruling), it can ignore all laws(rulings). So whos to say that even if they lose 2016, they will follow the rule of law then? In the meantime, Foreign investors & Zambians risk has now gone up because legal outcomes cannot be determined by the rule of law but instead by the direction of government. Welcome to your Zimbabwe, where the law will only apply when the government decides its in its favor to do so. If you the people who break the law are called criminals, what does that make them. It could be said that the people of Zambia are now living in a lawless society/dictatorship. Time for democracy, rule of law, and good governance to come to Zambia. 2 Question: 1st, Why cant Zambia have good governments like in Botswana? 2nd. In Zambia, should people over the age of 55, be barred from politics?
CALLED WISE
July 1, 2013 at 6:44 am
MY QUOTE:
‘TRUE FREEDOM IS WHEN YOU FREE YOURSELF’
BUT WHEN YOU ARE FREED, IT’S JUST ANOTHER FORM OF SLAVARY.
THE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT HAS IS THAT THEY THINK ONCE RB IS OUT, HE MIGHT NOT COME BACK.
AN INTENTION RB HIMSELF MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE.
THIS IS WHAT THE BATTLE AMONG THE JUDICIARY, THE LEGISLATIVE AND THE EXECUTIVE ALL ABOUT.
THE QUESTION IS: WHO IS GOING TO GET THE GRAND PRIZE?
Popopo
July 1, 2013 at 6:52 am
RB your excitment when you became has costed you, giving increment to parliamenterians and ministers when LPM died, the Chiluba case saga so many issues are on you. Clear the air mune even MCS we shall persecute him after 2016
CALLED WISE
July 1, 2013 at 6:58 am
MY QUOTE:
‘THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY NEVER ENDS,
IT NEEDS TO BE FOUGHT AGAIN AND AGAIN.’
sata m
July 1, 2013 at 8:34 am
Presidential Directives vs Court Order. Mwachepa baiche
chiingu
July 1, 2013 at 9:22 am
Now this continued disregard of court orders by govt agencies is becoming too much.Why should they be seletive because it involves RB.If this is the new culture then ZAMBEEF should be allowed to embalm us and the Mailoni brothers should be brought back.
I rest my case.
wazanga
July 1, 2013 at 9:38 am
rb wanya
Mpangula Mputyu
July 1, 2013 at 10:26 am
The PF want to punish RB for their imaginary illusion that RB did not want to hand over POWER after 2011 and for freeing Chiluba.
Sata and his minions want to nail RB into Jail for even attempting to make Mmembe and Nchito to pay back!!!
Nakonde
July 1, 2013 at 10:44 am
ilikobad PF administration vs court orders, you are in trouble RB.
kiduli
July 1, 2013 at 1:33 pm
RB Tekako amolu panshi. I thought you had problems with your leg. The government is in order to help you rest yo leg.
bimbo
July 1, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Enzeonama ati kwendo kumuvuta.Afunodyako nyama yaku Tanzania nomwako simba. Wina azalila.
XXX
July 1, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Naimwe Ba PF please leave the OLD FOOL Alone!! naiwe chi RB wamona ukutupa walichita ati it has not taken you anywhere at all??? Naiwe Chi Sata the same will happen to you if you commit crimes so beware and be clean.
ba medza
July 1, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Our fear is that RB might dissapear just like his son,if he wants us to trust him let him tell us where his son is to come & answer his corruption charges.
by Tondo wabula nsafu but ukupulukuta cimonaba nsafu
July 1, 2013 at 9:30 pm
Let the president teach him a lesson alisaminwe ukutwibila amavotes Viva PVT!!!!
pemps
July 2, 2013 at 1:39 am
good to be a zambia, im enjoying my cup of tea- FREE!
bigbuttman
July 2, 2013 at 10:43 am
RB should face trial for human rights abuses.
by Tondo wabula Nsafu but ukupulukuta cimo NabaNsafu
July 2, 2013 at 2:38 am
Let the president teach him a lesson alisaminwe ukutwibila amaVotes.PVT yalibomba sana.PF till 2030
Tondo wabula Nsafu but ukupulukuta cImo naba Nsafu
July 2, 2013 at 2:56 am
Ba Wainey I can’t get yo point,who yo complaint is in favour of?if u ‘re not happy with the new Gorvt God has given us,try UNIP or take over the party of the late Ngondo and challange us.
A PIECE OF ADVICE
July 2, 2013 at 9:15 am
Tondo – being in power is a privilege. Yes, MMD messed up especially in the last 2 years – they mocked the opposition so much that even for the un-partisan ZNBC became obnoxious. MMD denied coverage to PF and UPND leadership but small guys in compounds enjoyed massive media coverage as long as their message was to denounce the opposition.
Tondo, do you want PF to follow the same path? People voted PF so that such things stop.
A PIECE OF ADVICE
July 2, 2013 at 9:01 am
RULE OF LAW!!!! UMmmmm. Going by this there ain’t no rule of law in Zambia. Now if there ain’t, what happens to the poor and unconnected? Ni njema chabe until you catch HIV and TB – even before you are proven guilty. Scary, ehh, are we thinking about what will happen to us when we are out of power? Crossing the bridge when we get there? There may be no bridge to cross esp if the new rulers continue from where the current ones will leave things? Suppose the so-called bitterness continues even when they get into power? It may not matter whether it is the calculator boy, the pastor, the priest or young Chipimo – they all sound bitter now. Yaaba, that will be tricky. We won’t be there forever, for sure. Maybe let us refurbish the prisons now that we are still in power – because one may go there one day -especially with the precedent we have set for ourselves in this country. Hear, those who have ears.
sos
July 2, 2013 at 10:29 am
IS RB A CONVICT?
THE MAN MISSES FLYING ,NOWONDER HE CRIED IN PUBLIC.
OTHERS JUST SURRENDER POWER ,WITHOUT SHEDDING TEARS .
THE MAN IS GUILTY , THE BILL BOARDS, LOLI POPS,BRANDED CONDOMS ETC
WHATEVER A MAN DOES ,FOLLOWS HIM FOR THE REST OF LIFE
zambian
July 2, 2013 at 12:24 pm
RB will die of BP he likes flying about too bad for him.
monko
July 2, 2013 at 4:01 pm
It seems like the exesutive has more power than the judiciary. LoL
isaac
July 3, 2013 at 10:28 am
The gentleman has issues with the govt why allowing him out of the country when his own son is still at large over charges of corruption,to allow him to meet his corrupt lawyer Amsterdam? No we can’t allow this. Even if he can be allowed to go out of the country, what will he contribute to mother Zambia which he failed to do when he was in power? I remember towards the ened of 2011, he boasted that he loved flying around and being called Mr President now he has to wait the court vedict.
Zambian woman
July 3, 2013 at 11:14 am
Imwe bantu, does it mean that if RB is gven a a passport he has to travel? No, it is up to immigration. When for example you acquire a visa at any local embassy, that does not guarantee you to enter that country. it will be up to the immigration officers satisfying themselves that you have met all the requirements they have set before you.
ndanje kaks
July 3, 2013 at 7:30 pm
He has lost the Diplomatic Passport not the common one which requires a visa.
mwai
July 3, 2013 at 1:37 pm
This continued disregard for the rule of Law will take Zambia no where….it doesnt help us. Those supporting this, one day you will need the law to protect you, and you will be treated in the same manner. Be carefull what you support. This is not about RB, its about the Governance of this Country.
eyes
July 3, 2013 at 1:40 pm
Fellow zambians let us not be shortsighted over RBs passport withdrawal.who says RB will come back if allowed to go out where is the wife?
Rupiah Banda
July 3, 2013 at 4:09 pm
Shut up……..amambala imwe………..nifuna kuyenda pa holiday ku mfuwe ya ku tanzania….
ndanje kaks
July 3, 2013 at 7:28 pm
Latest. MMD candiate for the Kafulafuta by election Ms Mwanawasa has withdrawn from the race. Where does that leave Nevers?
bb
July 4, 2013 at 7:08 am
tondo is jxt an ***** who cn not diferentiat betwin dictatorship & democracy. Tondo wabe umusula kumona. Chinyo pamusana
Tondo wabula nsafu but ukupulukuta cimo naba nsafu
July 4, 2013 at 8:41 pm
Bb walichula