CHANGALA FOUND WITH A CASE TO ANSWER
September 10, 2024
The Lusaka Magistrate Court has found Civil Rights Activist BREBNER CHANGALA with a case to answer and subsequently put him on his defence.
This is in a matter where Mr. CHANGALA is facing one count of seditious practices.
When the matter came up for ruling, Lusaka Chief Resident Magistrate DAVIS CHIBWILI said he had found that the words allegedly uttered by the accused may be viewed as prima facie.
Magistrate CHIBWILI said he also found that the accusation that the government had a hand in criminal activities and possible terrorist acts against its own citizens have a seditious insinuation.
He added that words were found to have the effect of causing disaffection against the government.
Mr CHANGALA is alleged to have made the seditious utterances in May 2024 when he commented on the disappearance of Petauke Central Member of Parliament EMMANUEL BANDA.
The defence have informed the court that the accused will take sworn evidence and intends to call four witnesses.
Magistrate CHIBWILI has since adjourned the matter to October 7, 2024 for commencement of defence.
ZNBC
The usual merry go round arrests of the opposition the UN report revealed !!!!
Observer your uncle Brebgner Changala is in maningi sh*t malume. The U.N. Report was too biased and unobjective! Law Breakers must be caged malume. Zambia simunda wa Brebgner Changala for him to play Chidunu game sir.
Postponement after postponement after postponement after postponement then nolle prosque. Wasting government time on irrelevant issues.
I-dio-ts for adults again. No wonder we are where we are at this point after the so called independence. Independence in your own land? Crazy adults indeed. losers and no future shapers. Lets chase those crazy bold heads out of town.
Brebner Changala is actually a fair-minded person with a high sense of justice and capable of changing his mind when the situation warrants it. In the so-called JJ Banda abduction which he commented on and landed him in trouble, it was a mere bandwagon reaction and he decided to go with the flow. If JJ Banda and his lawyer Sakwiba Sikota care about Changala’s freedom, they should help with his defence by turning up in court to testify that there was in fact no abduction, in which case the prosecution of Changala would be stopped so that he continues to enjoy his freedom as there would have been no abduction to react to.
My comment above applies to Edgar Lungu and JJ Banda’s three wives also. If they care about Brebner Changala, they should also turn up in court and say that there was no abduction so that Changala continues to be a free man. Changala reacted the way he did purely out of impulse because a blue lie was dressed up as fact and he fell for it. He’s a good man.