THREE students have testified in Munir Zulu’s defence in the matter where the Lumezi MP is charged with seditious practices. The three students have told the court that they took Zulu’s remark that President Hakainde Hichilema would dissolve parliament as a joke. Zulu is facing one count of seditious practices contrary to Section 57 (1) (e) of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. It is alleged that on September 6, 2023, in Lusaka, Zulu uttered 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...