Former director of Elections at the Electoral Commission of Zambia – ECZ, Dan Kalale has alleged that three cardinal institutions namely ECZ, the judiciary and the Presidency have misbehaved in the way the campaigns, elections and post election period which includes presidential petition was handled.
Kalale who during his time was as well accused of rigging for the ruling party said Injustice is seen and not perceived from two angles, he added that one is the value oriented angle and the other is the independent or neutral angle. He assured
“In the case at hand, three cardinal governance institutions, namely ECZ, Judiciary and the Presidency have with no doubt misbehaved but unfortunately depending on your political inclination you can see it or you can choose not to see it.
In a statement made available to Zambian Eye, Kalale bemoaned what he called the injustice and unfairness in the manner the cardinal institutions have behaved.
” It is unheard of and unprecedented because I have been there myself before , ECZ accredits and gives access and password to the results management system to an outsider, what was the motive?
That outsider is ostensibly arrested but quickly released in no time and goes about scot free. Then there was Blantant dispute of results in Kanyama, as though that’s not enough the ECZ chairman goes on to announce wrong election results figures. All this is visually recorded.
There’s also unprecedented biased puplic media coverage giving undue advantage to one party and carelessly and maliciously disadvantaging others, this was done at a new level and with utmost impunity.
There’s also a new but very dangerous phenomenon of a massive clamp down on private media, unprecedented!” he said.
Kalale also said there also an uncertain, unsure, incompetent Concourt which deliberately with no valid reason refuses to give a direction and a directive for the President elect to step aside as per constitutional dictate.
“Then there’s also the Presidency that refuses to step down with impunity.
This is not a level playing field. It’s also known as injustice.
In all fairness these matters should have been addressed to exonerate the three institutions than to leave it just there as long as someone gets inaugurated.” He explained.
“What’s the use of having vital governance institutions shrouded in suspicion, shame and disrespect when justice would have laundered all the negative perception or would have corrected the wrongs.
Anyway no matter how much I may go one a value laden mind will not see sense in all that may be said.
As at today, what matters is one’s political orientation, subjective stance. Everything else, next time,” he said
When Mushipe said a person “voted six times” Pipo believed her. Plse pipo learn to get facts not biased report. Dan what happened in 2001 when late Mazoka cried foul. People are asking what did you to do????????. What Dan said is a desperate carder the way VJ was talking about rigging but when he was in Govt he was defended several times that Elections in Zambia can’t be rigged. Plse there are alot of pipo with integrity who retired from ECZ with dignity than the foolishness Dan is trying to show and capitalise on H H who needs such statement for comfort.Next he will tell HH to give some funds so that he “tells him how it was rigged”.
Peace for Frank your are not a normal human being, for Lungu not stepping aside during the petition period is speculation, that boy who entered the ECZ private room to you is speculation, What kind of blind royalty are trying to show? Your perpetual defence of wrong things would not make you look intelligent, it just expose your stupidity.
For the time Kalale has spoken the truth because he is loosing nothing . Even those judges, the ECZ and the president will come and tell the truth one day at appropriate time when they know they loose nothing.
Unless Kalale tells the nation that he stole election from Mazoka, he has no integrity to comment on the ECZ.
KALALE HH vowed that he will not accept to lose to Lungu in June 2016 way before elections. What are you talking about? We have heart all these stories you have writtwm. What are you trying to be smarter than the petitioners?lawyers?shut up let the court say the final say.Too late now. Never is seinkingmisu the Chinsali way now in Kabulonga under police guard.
Peace for Zambia or Emmanuel Mwamba/Frank Bwalya. Is what Kalale is saying correct or not. Don’t dodge. Don’t be hypocritical. Analyze the issues raised. You know you stole the election that is why you are evasive.
@Kingdom hall,
Definitely it is neither correct nor true.
Only someone who thinks HH is correct to say the three judges who did not rule in his favour are thugs, will say Dan is correct to say the three institutions mention misbehaved.
This philosophy if saying if it favours me then it has integrity, if it dies not go my way then it is misbehaving, or those involved are thugs, is definitely misplaced.
The philosophy is flawed, and undemocratic. The is why it has indoctrinated some people who say:
“If I win, I will accept. If I lose I will not accept”.
“If they are on my side they have integrity. If they are not on my side they are thugs”.
“If the ruling is in my favour those judging are judges, if not in my favour they are thugs”.
And to you that position is correct?
But PF HAS NO INTEGRITY, EVERYONE CAN C THAT – eg thugs are tuning de show.
PEACE FOR ZAMBIA, DNT THINK LIKE A CHILD ARE U TELING ME DAT YOU DNT NO THE REASON Y HH IS NT ACCEPTING DEFEAT.KALALE IS VERY MUCH CORECT THOZ JUDGES THEY JST DID DISGUSTING THING IN ALL THE EYES OF ZAMBIANS.THINK BE FOR U COMENT.
There no single reason, other than mere fabrication.
If there was evidence how did they fail to produce it in half a month.
All we saw were emotions from Mushipe talking about a truck from Luangwa which was discovered to be a total lie, mut Mushipe was sweating about it.
I wish you never quit the ECZ job this would not have happened if you have such a reasonable and correct mindset. This whole issue we are facing today started with ECZ. If they did the right thing then non of this would happened. This statement also speaks volumes on the manipulation that took place.
Who was director when Mazoka cried?
Unless Dan Kalale tells us that Mazoka misbehaved.
Otherwise, going by his thought, Kalale misbehaved to make Mazoka lose the 2001 elections.
Is Kalale confessing his sins?
Can the police surround his house so that he can warn Akufuna and the others.
His sins is de only truth THAT LUNGU LOST TO HH.
BUT CORRUPTION IS KEEPING HIM THERE.
stupidity is indeed part of your DNA. The ECZ, Judiciary and Presidency misbehaved. Where does late Mazoka fit in here. Presidency here is in reference to a dictator lungu, who abrogated the constition and mazoka was just claiming his stollen victory just like hh is doing.Dan kalale never even rigged those elections and instead, like what bembas (Annie Mwelwa, Mulenga mungeni, Priscilla Mulenga Isaacs) have robbed hh’s victory, Bobby Bwalya(bemba) then at ecz robbed Mazoka of his victory. Be factual and being a follower of a dunderhead like lungu should not make you even more confused than the level of your madness.
Maybe this is Dan Kalale’s style of confessing his sin which he committed in 2001.
Let me advise Kalale that elections are conducted far better now than when he was director.
I don’t blame Kalale, he can’t believe that there are people who do not believe in doing what he did to Mazoka.