PF vice-president Given Lubinda has asked the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court to set him free in a case in which he is charged with failure to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges and Absences. Lubinda has argued that the period within which such a case was supposed to be taken to court for trial has elapsed. This is in a matter in which Lubinda is facing one count of failure to appear before the committee or assembly contrary to Section 11(a) of the National Assembly Act (Powers and Privileges) Chapter 12 of the Laws of Zambia as read with Amendment Act No. 13 of 2016 of the Laws of Zambia. It is alleged that Lubinda between December 18, 2021 and...