MMD president Nevers Mumba says the sentencing of NDC leader Chishimba Kambwili to two years imprisonment by Magistrate David Simusamba is a miscarriage of justice because the judgment was delivered by somebody who should have not presided over that case. In an interview, Mumba said based on his complaints against Simusamba to the Judicial Complaints Commission (JCC), and also the JCC’s recommendation to have Magistrate Simusamba removed from presiding as a Judicial officer, Kambwili’s judgemnet should have been delivered by another judge. “I think that this is a failure of system. There was already a recommendation that Mr Simusamba be removed from the bench so that he does not preside over any case. Unfortunately for some reason, he was not...

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