The People’s Newspaper
IT is hypocritical for the Church to wine and dine with the Executive in the face of numerous injustices including indefinetly incacerating political prisoners, the breakdown of the rule of law and attempts to convert the country into the dreaded one party State being perpetrated by the UPND government, Brebnar Changala has said.
THE political movement being espoused by opposition political parties is the culminination of calls from Zambians across the country for a united political front that would challenge the UPND in the 2026 general elections, State Counsel Sakwiba Sikota has said.
THE Prisoner Reintegration and Empowerment Organisation (PREO) has challenged private law firms to volunteer pro bono services to prisoners as guided by the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ), because the remanded population is too high while the lawyers providing such services are still few.
LUSAKA lawyer Celestine Mukandila has petitioned the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) to immediately challenge the constitutionality of a decree by Inspector General of Police Graphael Musamba banning public rallies for the opposition political parties.
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has created an environment of fear and uncertainty in the Judiciary by removing Judges which has seen a high turnover of Justices under his administration, George Chisanga has observed.
GEORGE Chisanga, the Patriotic Front chairperson for legal affairs has described sentiments by UPND Mwinilunga MP Newton Samakai that Zambia should be turned into a federal state as treasonable.
THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) disciplinary committee is on November 24, 2023 expected to make a ruling in a matter were the George Kunda law firm allegedly engaged in an illegality.
STEVEN Masumba has described expelled Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa’s action to illegally and clandestinely take over the leadership of the Patriotic Front (PF) as an evil manoeuvre that should never have the blessings of the UPND as the governing party.
ZAMBIA is not performing very well in terms of literacy levels and the government should continue to invest into the reading culture for the country to grow a well-informed citizenry, the Literacy Association of Zambia (LAZ) has said.
IT is important that Government responds to the concerns that have been raised over the country’s democracy by the Our Civic Duty Association (OCiDA).
