FORMER KCM provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu has asked the Constitutional Court to cite Director of Public Prosecutions Gilbert Phiri for contempt of court for revoking his immunity from prosecution. Lungu argues that Phiri’s act was calculated to directly interfere with and frustrate the proceedings before the Constitutional Court on the said immunity agreement by rendering the matter nugatory and an academic exercise, thereby prejudicing the outcome of the proceedings. He further argues that the DPP’s act was calculated to undermine the authority of the court by usurping the court’s power to consider and pronounce itself on the immunity agreement, and also calculated to obstruct or divert the course of justice. In his affidavit in support of notice of motion for...

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