STATE HOUSE Chief Communication Specialist Clayson Hamasaka says Davies Mwila’s suggestion that former High Court Judge Wilfred Muma’s removal from the bench is because he is a perceived friend of the PF confirms that the previous regime made appointments based on friendship and not merit. On Friday last week, President Hakainde Hichilema removed Judge Muma from the office of the judge of the High Court for Zambia with immediate effect. But former PF secretary general Davies Mwila said President Hichilema had no basis for removing Judge Muma from the bench, charging that the Judge had only been removed because he was perceived to be former president Edgar Lungu’s friend. Commenting on this in an interview, however, Hamasaka said UPND was just...

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