Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba wrote;
Anyway, today marks the beginning, and not an end, to the question of eligibility, and more petitions.
The Constitutional Court has allowed itself to run a circus on this matter.
The question of Edgar Lungu’s eligibility has been heard, determined, judged and settled four times in the past, as is in the cases of Danny Pule & Others, Aubrey Bampi Kapalasa, Sishuwa Sishuwa, Legal Resources Foundation and Chapter One Foundations.
The verdict has been consistent. But the quest has been to ask the same question again and again until a different outcome is obtained. This is called madness.
What was sad in this case was President Hakainde Hichilema had to fire three (3) Constitutional Court Judges to achieve this desecration and sham of the outcome today.
After this, the bench hearing the matter had to be reconfigured and constituted judges that he had appointed or promoted.
But make no mistake, because the Constitutional Court has allowed itself to be a tool of the Executive, it runs like a headless chicken.
It will take a long-time to get it right and earn a respectable place in the Justice system in Zambia.
Everyone says; “Respect the Judiciary, accept its decsions”..how can you respect an entity that doesn’t respect itself, that becomes part of lawlessness, that fails to deliver Justice, the very reason and purpose it was created to exist?
President Hichilema has demonstrated that he is willing to sacrifice the independence and autonomy of democratic institutions such as Parliament, the Judiciary, the Electoral Commission of Zambia, the Registrar of Societies and others just to achieve a selfish political goal or end of destroying credible Opposition against him.
However today’s choreographed event brings more shuffling and shifting of opportunities in the Opposition presidential race.
