DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Gilbert Phiri has told the Constitutional Court that he has the power to revoke former KCM provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu’s immunity and to subject him to prosecution. This is a matter in which Lungu has asked the Constitutional Court to cite 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...

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