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AN ANALYSIS
A CAPTIVE CHIEF JUSTICE
A VICTIM of a VICIOUS and Criminal Cartel
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It is said that a Chief Justice of a country should be allowed to be asindependent as possible, for citizens to access fairness and justice. But if hewere unfortunately, to be held captive, he should be a captive of the State andits institutions only. But Zambia portends a different scenario where a fewprivate individuals have held the Chief Justice captive by promising to hidehis little dirty secrets while they made him help settle their personal politicaland legal scores.
 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYWhen
 Mutembo Nchito
faced
Chief Justice Mathew Ngulube
demanding cooperationfrom him, Ngulube must have thought that this ‘boy’ was mad to attempt to blackmail a
 sitting 
Chief Justice who enjoys constitutional
 protection
and
 security of tenure
.Mutembo had come to this meeting with the
 ZAMTROP 
Account!Ngulube thought, who would cast dirty aspersion on the head of the Fountain of Justice?Ngulube had no idea who held state power.He was confident that the man he swore in as Republican President just a few monthsago was in charge. He was sincerely but sadly mistaken!Within a period of 10 days, Ngulube stood
disgraced 
and
dismissed 
!Many people who faced the parallel force, only as strong as the State, of 
 Mutembo Nchito, Mark Chona
and
Fred Mmembe
and their
 foreign backers
, and chose to ‘defy’,‘ignore’ or ‘scorn’ it, were steam-rolled. Their careers were ruined and dirt was piledon them.And the parallel made
 Ernest Sakala
the new
Chief Justice
of Zambia!In order to disentangle oneself from the blackmail of such a force and exerciseindependence, one has to be scrupulously clean and maintain a higher level of integrityto break free from such Bondage.But Sakala didn’t, and the cartel knew the man’s weakness.A sexual relationship between a
boss
and
 junior 
is not a desirable undertaking. Itexposes the boss to
unethical demands
and
tempts
him to
bend 
or
break 
regulations sothat favours such as promotions, pay perks, pay increments and other fringe benefitscan be provided unfairly to the partner. The relationship traditionally, is a skewed butmutual affair with each partner sucking blood out of the other.History is replete with many
mighty
men that have
 fallen
because of such clearly ill-fated relationships.And
The Post 
has kept this particular one under wraps for sometimes now.But the chickens came to roost on
3
rd 
 April 2009
when the Law Association of Zambia(LAZ) and State Counsels where called for an emergency meeting (for a third time) toratify a list of recommended persons to be appointed as Judges. The outcome left a sourtaste.Ad for the cartel, their edifice is collapsing from all fronts. The cartel have found inRupiah Banda, a president who recognises that he is only accountable to the people of Zambia and not to a few individuals who plot and decide the fate of the country fromprivate homes over stains of drinks.The cartel faces its worst trying period; the edifice is being dismantled
brick 
by
brick.
For there could only be one government at a time, that should hold forte till the nextelections.
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A CAPTIVE CHIEF JUSTICE- A VICTIM OF A VICIOUS CARTELINTRODUCTION
When the
Law Association of Zambia (LAZ)
emergency meeting of 
Council
and
StateCounsels
met to ratify recommended persons for the office of the High Court Judge, on
3
rd
April 2009
, there was indignation and seething anger against the
Chief Justice, ErnestSakala
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