NUMAW PRESIDENT JAMES CHANSA SUSPENDED FOR PUTTING NAME OF THE UNION IN DISREPUTE
By Michael Kaluba
The National Executive Committee for the National Union of Miners and Allied Workers-NUMAW has suspended union President James Chansa with immediate effect, for putting the name of the union in disrepute.
Mr. Chansa has since been given 14 days to exculpate himself following his suing of the union in the high court to defer a General Conference at which union presidential elections were due to be held last week, a case which he has since lost.
And speaking earlier at the NUMAW offices during a protest by 48 branches who petitioned the suspension of Mr. Chansa who has been NUMAW president since 2012, the union members accused him of attempting to extend his tenure of office for a third term after his allowable two 4 year tenures elapsed.
But Mr. Chansa has dismissed the grounds for the protest and subsequent suspension saying he was voted into office by miners and not cadres further saying he could not state when NUMAW would hold elections as the matter was before the courts of law.
Meanwhile, according to a Ndola Court ruling delivered on 29 October 2021 by High Court Judge Musonda and obtained by Phoenix News, the courts discharged an ex-parte order of interim injunction obtained on 19th October 2021 and costs awarded to the defendant in default of agreement to be taxed.
This was in a case relating to NUMAW elections, the candidature of James Chansa and the term of office of the Union President in relation to the Constitution of Zambia and the Labour and Industrial Relations act chapter 269 of the laws of Zambia for which the suspended president sued the Union General Secretary Stephen Mukupa.
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