ACTING PF secretary general Nickson Chilangwa says former president Edgar Lungu’s benefits are not coming from UPND officials’ pockets and they must therefore not gag him. And Chilangwa says UPND are so obsessed with Lungu and that is why they throw tantrums whenever the former head of state speaks. Meanwhile, PF lawyer Makebi Zulu says Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe’s statement on government’s intention to remove Lungu’s benefits is misleading. Yesterday, Haimbe said Lungu shouldn’t be benefiting from state coffers because he is still an active political player. “I think it is very clear, the appropriate provision of the law [which] is Chapter 15 of the laws of Zambia, section 5 (b) is very clear that a former president that is...

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