PF deputy secretary general Brenda Nyirenda has called for Nickson Chilangwa’s release, arguing that the charges against him are political and his children have remained with no one following their mother’s death. Chilangwa, who is serving a five-year jail term for malicious damage to public property, was on Thursday allowed to attend his late wife’s funeral service under tight security. In an interview, Friday, Nyirenda thanked prison authorities for the gesture but said that government should release Chilangwa and Ronald Chitotela, stating that their cases were political in nature. “The prison authorities, we have to commend where something good has been done. I cannot condemn what the prison authorities did. You see, the prison is headed by the President because...

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