CHRISTIAN Democratic Party president Dan Pule has asked Lusaka Magistrate Sylvia Munyinya to recuse herself from handling a matter in which he is charged with sedition because she hails from Southern Province. When the matter came up for commencement of trial, Thursday, Senior State Advocate Susan Besa told the court that the prosecution was ready to proceed with five witnesses. However, Pule’s lawyers rose to make an application for Magistrate Munyinya to recuse herself from presiding over the matter. Retired Major J H Mwaaba said the defence wondered whether Pule would be accorded a fair trial without bias when the presiding Magistrate in the matter was from Southern Province. “What the accused seeks [from] the court is the question as...