LUSAKA lawyer Makebi Zulu says police officers stopped the Socialist Party’s Kitwe rally because they thought former president Edgar Lungu would attend as a special guest. And Zulu says President Hakainde Hichilema is the first president to have gone this long without allowing an opposition party to hold a rally since Zambia became a multi-party system. A battalion of police officers blocked Socialist Party officials from conducting their rally in Kitwe on Saturday, despite authorising them to go ahead a day before. Commenting on this during his appearance on a Millennium TV programme, Sunday evening, Zulu said the police stopped the rally because they thought Lungu would be in attendance. “That’s yet another very curious case which tells us how...

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