A WITNESS has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he was alarmed by the Lumezi Independent member of parliament’s remarks that President Hakainde Hichilema was going to dissolve parliament and call for early elections. In this matter, Munir Zulu is charged with one count of Seditious Practices. It is alleged that Zulu, on September 6, 2023, in Lusaka Province, did utter seditious words on social media, to which he claimed to have had reliable information that the President was going to dissolve parliament on Friday, September 8, 2023, after addressing parliament, and that he was going to call for early elections. He further incited Zambians to prepare for campaigns after the President dissolves parliament. Words intended to incite violence or...

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