CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says the compensations being given to people under the new dawn administration are nothing compared to what we saw under PF, who awarded as much as $4.3 million as compensation. And Mweetwa says the K900,000 which Lusaka Province UPND Chairperson Obvious Mwaliteta got as compensation for wrongful imprisonment is a drop in the ocean. Mweetwa argues that if he was Mwaliteta, he wouldn’t have accepted the K900,000 because it is too little after staying in “smelly, stinky places” for a whole year on frivolous charges. On Monday, Constitutional Lawyer Dr O’Brien Kaaba said there was something seriously wrong with the deals being cut at the Ministry of Justice. But in an interview, Thursday, Mweetwa said...

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