CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer John Sangwa says he walked away with a sense of sadness and shame after the Constitutional Court stopped him from making oral arguments in former president Edgar Lungu’s eligibility case. And Sangwa says he is worried that the Constitutional Court will be destroyed completely if it reverses its earlier decision that Lungu was eligible to contest elections, as it hasn’t conducted itself very well. On Monday, Constitutional Court president Professor Margret Munalula allowed Sangwa to excuse himself from the eligibility proceedings after denying him permission to make oral submissions to supplement his brief. But speaking on The Conversation Podcast, Tuesday, Sangwa said lawyers should be allowed to exhaust their submissions without being curtailed. “I’ve been a practitioner for...
