THE Human Rights Commission has observed that the country seems to be so much focused on the rights of politically exposed persons, at the expense of the general welfare of the people away from Lusaka. Last week Wednesday, President Hakainde Hichilema urged the Commission to distinguish between complaints bordering on infringement of human rights and people who only wanted to get away with breaking the law. “Human Rights Commission, where your human rights end, mine start. Let’s understand that correctly. To break the law is different from defining it as human rights. So when people come to complain to you, distinguish between people breaking the law. We’ve established that we’ll restore the rule of law, so when complaints come and...

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