JUDGES HANDLING THE ELEGIBILITY CASE
DEMAND MORE PERSONAL SECURITY
Lusaka- 6th December 2024
Constitutional Court judges handling the matter regarding the eligibility case of Edgar Chagwa Lungu have demanded for more immediate personal security.
The judges have also demanded that highly qualified trained aide-de-damps to be their bodyguards and not the court messengers that usually guard them.
The judges have also requested for deployment of more security personnel to their homes for the next 3 months.
The Constitutional Court is expected to deliver its judgment over a settled case of the eligibility of Edgar Lungu to participate in the 2021 and 2026 general and presidential elections on Tuesday,10th December 2024.
State House used a UPND youth, Michelo Chizombe, to petiton and re-open the case of former President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility to stand as a presidential candidate in the 2021 and 2026 elections.
The Constitutional Court has previously heard, ruled, and settled this matter that Lungu was eligible in the four separate stated cases of; Danny Pule, Aubrey Banji Kapalasa, Sishuwa Sishuwa and Legal Resources Foundation.
However, State House want Lungu eliminated from the electoral contest.
To this effect President Hakainde Hichilema proceeded to fabricate cases and removed Constitutional Court judges Anne Sitali, Mungeni Mulenga and Palan Mulonda from the bench.
The 3 judges ruled against his 2016 electoral petition against Hichilema and also ruled in favour of the eligibility cases of Lungu.
Many legal experts have stated that if the Constitutional Court ruled that Lungu was not eligible to particpate in the elections, it meant that such a scenario required that the 2021 election be declared null and void and stand nullified.
A fresh poll must be called as the election of President Hichilema would be deemed totally illegal due to the presence of an illegal candidate.
However, the Constitutional Court judges are under pressure to exclude only Lungu but hold that the election was legal.
Civil Society groupings have condemned the UPND for its obsession with Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front that the Government has abandoned focus on development and has gone to great lengths to attempt to destroy the PF that they are willing to risk and endanger national security and peace.
The case is CAUSE NO 2023/CCZ/0021 BETWEEN;
MICHELO CHIZOMBE AS A
PETITIONER,
EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU AS THE 1ST RESPONDENT,
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA AS 2ND RESPONDENT AND
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS 3RD RESPONDENT
The Panel of Judges are;
1. Hon. Justice Prof. Margaret Munalula- President of he
Constitutional Court
2. Hon. Mr. Justice Arnold Mweetwa Shilimi – Deputy President of
the Constitutional Court
3. Hon. Mrs. Justice Maria Mapani Kawimbe.
4. Hon. Mr. Justice Kenneth Mulife
5. Hon. Mr. Justice Martin Musaluke
6. Hon. Mrs. Justice Judy Zulu-Mulongoti
7. Hon. Mr. Justice Mudford Zacharia Mwandenga
JUDGES HANDLING THE ELEGIBILITY CASE
DEMAND MORE PERSONAL SECURITY
