UPND spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says there are people in the Police Service and government institutions who want to do things to appease the ruling party at the expense of respecting people’s fundamental freedoms and liberties. And Mweetwa says the ruling party is taken aback by certain actions of the police. Speaking when he featured on Prime TV’s “Oxygen of Democracy” programme, Mweetwa condemned the arrest of Muvi TV journalists Obvious Kapunda and Innocent Phiri who filmed a police operation at Chilufya Tayali’s house. He said the ruling party can’t justify the actions it condemned in the past. “It is very unfortunate that media practitioners or journalists while in the endeavour of the performance of their duty are caught up in...

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