PF lawyer Tutwa Ngulube says any person who has been arrested in connection with campaign funds will be acquitted because there is currently no law which compels parties to reveal sources of their funding. Commenting on the arrest of Lusaka lawyer Ann Mwitwa who was engaged by the former ruling party to handle campaign funds and the questioning of PF acting secretary general Nickson Chilangwa, Ngulube described this as an exercise in futility. “You know when we proposed to create the Political Parties Bill, one of the things we intended to do was to make political parties accountable by making them disclose the sources of their funding and financiers. But that was rejected by the UPND when they were in...

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