2019-04-15 Zambian Ministry of Justice International Court Judgment

International Court Judgment against Zambian Ministry of Justice vindicating Magistrate Kunda Maggie Tantameni and condemning abuse of power by corruption in the Ministry of Justice

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International Court Judgment against Zambian Ministry of Justice vindicating Magistrate Kunda Maggie Tantameni and condemning abuse of power by corruption in the Ministry of Justice

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  15 April 2019 
 
Contact:  Press Bureau, bar.chambers@edu.igo-gov.org  
 
Zambian Judiciary Corruption Condemned by International Court 
Magistrate Wins Court Ruling on Corruption in Ministry of Justice 
 
Summary:    
The inter-governmental Sovereign Court of International Justice 
(SCIJ) issued a Judgment against corruption in the Ministry of Justice of Zambia.  The 
High Court ruling vindicated a Magistrate, Kunda Maggie Tantameni, who was 
wrongfully charged on falsified evidence and prosecuted by political motivations by 
corrupt Judiciary officials.  The Judgment found the Ministry liable for "abuse of 
power" by corruption, including failure to operate its constitutional Judicial Complaints 
Commission thereby depriving the public of "access to justice" against corruption. 
 
Quotable: 
  
"Any corruption used to attack a Judge, is an attack against the 
Independent Judiciary which is an attack against The People, as an attack against the 
Rule of Law itself."  Prince Judge Matthew of Thebes, Chief of Judiciary Security 
 
Press Release: 
The Magistrate Kunda Maggie Tantameni, falsely charged with 
alleged theft of drugs from a Courthouse, was vindicated by a Judgment of the 
Sovereign Court of International Justice (SCIJ), which found that she was illegally 
prosecuted by corrupt Judiciary officials driven by political motivations, and ruled that 
the Zambian Ministry of Justice committed "abuse of power" by depriving the public of 
"access to justice" against such corrupt Judiciary officials. 
 
The Chief of Judiciary Security of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Prince Judge 
Matthew of Thebes, emphasized the socio-political significance of the Court ruling: 
 
"Any corruption used to attack a Judge, is an attack against the Independent Judiciary 
internationally, which is an attack against The People, as an attack against the Rule of 
Law itself.  Any enforcement action by the Independent Judiciary [is thus] an action 
by and for The People, to restore and uphold the Rule of Law internationally."   
 
"This principle  of international unity for Justice against corruption  is best expressed 
by the bell on the Honey Fitz yacht of the American President John F. Kennedy, who 
most famously declared the fight against governmental corruption worldwide, which 
displayed the inscription:  'Where We Go One We Go All'." 
 
The Judiciary Security Agency (JSA) of the High Court, in a cover letter to the Zambian 
Ministry of Justice delivering the Judgment, explained the strategic national security 
significance of the Judgment as essential to maintaining stability of the country: 
 
"The importance of Justice free from corruption is best expressed by the protest chant 
which originated among African Americans ca. 1986, 'No Justice  No Peace', derived 
from the declaration of King James I of England ca. 1604, 'No Bishop  No King'.  Just 
as a Bishop was needed for Coronation of a King, upholding Justice has always been 
the essential Crown of authority for all Government agencies." 
 
"Since the beginning of recorded human history, a Justice system free from corruption 
has always been the underlying and overriding condition of the Social Contract, as the 
primary basis of authority for all Government agencies.  Without access to fair and 
equal Justice, protected by regulation ensuring an impartial and independent 
Judiciary, the Social Contract is broken." 
 
The case began in May 2018 when drugs were found missing from an evidence facility 
of the Lusaka Magistrates Subordinate Court, from at least 6 different criminal trials of 
6 different Magistrates in the same Courthouse.  Zambian Ministry of Justice officials 
illegally filed a police complaint and brought false criminal charges against only one of 
the Magistrates, Kunda Maggie Tantameni.  The subsequent prosecution from 
September 2018 circumvented both the Constitution and the Judicial Code of Conduct 
Act of Zambia, which strictly require that all accusations against Judges must be filed 
exclusively with the Judicial Complaints Commission of the Ministry. 
 
The SCIJ High Court Judgment found that the only single piece of evidence against the 
Magistrate was admittedly "self-evidently false and artificially manufactured by 
forgery", and that the Zambian Court wrongfully "ignored determinative exculpatory 
evidence" proving her innocence. 
 
The Judgment ruled that "the Ministry of Justice did nothing to restore or reassert its 
Judiciary Complaints Authority function", enabling "corrupt political motivations for 
circumventing Ministry authority by illegal and unconstitutional false process against a 
Judge." 
 
The Judgment emphasized that "By failing to restore or reassert its authority for 
Judiciary Complaints, the Ministry of Justice essentially abdicated its official 
responsibilities, depriving the general public of rights of Access to Justice against 
corrupt Abuse of Power by Judiciary officials." 
 
The SCIJ High Court ruled that "Defendant is liable for Seven Counts of Abuse of 
Power" under international law, by violations of judiciary immunity, judiciary 
confidentiality, judiciary security, equal protection of law, equal access to justice, 
disregarding exculpatory evidence, and failure to prosecute abuse of power by corrupt 
officials. 
 
About the Institution: 
The Sovereign Court of International Justice (SCIJ) is an 
official Court of Law and international Court of Justice of the independent Judiciary 
profession, with universal jurisdiction, as a High Court at Common Law for human 
rights and international law cases.  SCIJ is recognized as an "inter-governmental 
organization" (IGO) by United Nations Registration No. 666976.  It exercises inherent 
statutory powers and supra-governmental authorities of the Judiciary under the UN 
framework of conventional law, which is binding upon all countries regardless of 
recognition (UN Independence of Judiciary, Preamble: 1, 10, Articles 3, 4, 7; UN Law of 
Treaties, Article 38). 
 
The Sovereign Court (SCIJ) is the first human rights Court to allow citizens to assert 
rights against any country, the first to allow claims of "first instance" without 
"exhausting domestic remedies", and the first to provide meaningful enforcement 
mechanisms. 
 
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