In this audio, PF deputy chief whip Tutwa Ngulube alleges that LAZ president Eddie Mwitwa has been paid by a named organization to fight and embarrass government and he must therefore be impeached.
And Ngulube says Constitutional Lawyer John Sangwa SC must immediately recuse himself from the petition before the Constitutional Court regarding Bill 10 or be stripped of his status as State Counsel so that he cannot use it to fight personal battles against President Edgar Lungu.
On Monday, the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) dragged President Lungu, the Attorney General and the National Assembly to the Constitutional Court for attempting to illegally alter the Constitution of Zambia through Bill 10 of 2019.
But reacting to this, Ngulube said LAZ had agreed not to challenge the bill in court and the court action was proof that Mwitwa wanted to leave a trail of destruction before his term of office ends.
“I would like to support the calls of State Counsel Sakwiba Sikota and other learned State Counsel who have come out in the open and said they would like us to impeach the LAZ president Mr Eddie Mwitwa for dragging the name of the association into serious disrepute and also for being used to fight political battles on behalf of a named opposition political party, the United Party for National Development. It is very clear that Mr Mwitwa, whose term of office is coming to an end would like to leave a trail of destruction on behalf of the Law Association of Zambia. We therefore want to urge the general membership of the Law Association of Zambia to rise and remove Mr Eddie Mwitwa from office,” Ngulube said.
“I am also aware, as a member of parliament who is also a lawyer and fully paid up member of the Law Association of Zambia that Mr Eddie Mwitwa cannot impose his hatred of President Lungu on the general membership of the Law Association of Zambia. His personal views or vendetta must not be misunderstood to mean that he represents the views of the entire legal fraternity and the entire Law Association of Zambia.”
He charged that Mwitwa had been paid and challenged Sangwa to recuse himself from the petition.
“We are aware also that Mr Mwitwa has been paid by a named institution to fight the Patriotic Front government and also to embarrass government but we are also saying, both Mr Eddie Mwitwa and Mr John Sangwa SC were lawyers representing Mr Hakainde Hichilema in the presidential petition who failed to win the case in the ConCourt and are now trying to use the Constitution to protract their battle against His Excellency the President of this country Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu. We are also aware that Mr Mwitwa does not mean well for our association. Just like state counsel John Sangwa is State Counsel, he is expected as State Counsel to guide the state whenever he feels there is something that the state is not doing correctly. He is not supposed to use his rank as State Counsel to fight government or to fight the state. We therefore call upon the President to strip him off the status and rank of State Counsel and let him go and continue fighting on his own without hiding under the umbrella of State Counsel. We therefore demand that Mr John Sangwa should immediately recuse himself from the court proceedings or if he fails, we will petition the President to remove his rank as State Counsel so that he does not use his position and status in the legal fraternity to fight his personal battles against the President,” said Ngulube.
Ngulube also said Sangwa was being illogical by taking a petition before a court whose judges he insulted and publicly embarrassed.
He also insisted that no other institution could regulate what Parliament does.
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Yo yo yo. Drama in LAZ but who will be there to redeem us . This is an association we all look up to because of the integrity of its members. But with pf in government we have seen divisions in nearly every association pa zed including churches and NGO s. In my honest opinion looks like Pf thrives on division .
The idiot will not succeed, Zambians know Tutwa as the replica of the first demon that joined the devil in rebellion against God. Tutwa is an architect of all the problems thiis country is facing under this failed leadership or can we say imposition? Next I will talk about Mundubile the lost cause.
Most of the educated persons in this country are corrupt & politically impotent with selfish minds
Eddie Mwitwa is not jst a lawyer bt a God fearing and principled man
Ngulube is like Judas Iscariot and has sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver. He is a disgrace to the practice of law. Lungu’s pet poodle
This organization which sponsors opposition parties in the world over is well known,it is a gay organization operating in almost 42 countries,and some NGO’s and organisations in zambia are part of the beneficiaries shame to such organisations.