A POLICE officer has narrated to the Lusaka High Court how he handed over two suspects to his superiors after discovering that they had some unknown liquid on them during the period when the country was experiencing gassing incidences. The witness was testifying in a matter in which former president Edgar Lungu’s political advisor Chris Zumani Zimba is jointly charged with Given Phiri, Marlone Banda and Portipher Gwai in connection with the 2020 gassing incidences. Zumani is facing one count of aiding of terrorism acts, while Phiri and Banda are facing one count of possession of terrorism articles, and Gwai is facing a charge of procures of terrorism articles. When the matter came up for commencement of trial before Justice...

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