PF National Chairperson Davies Chama says Chief Justice Mumba Malila should refrain from making political statements that seem to defend the current fight against corruption as it puts him in a bad spot. During the inaugural national annual prosecutors’ conference in Livingstone, Monday, Chief Justice Malila dismissed the narrative that certain individuals were being targeted for victimisation on discriminatory grounds, saying the law was blind to any superficial differences. Chief Justice Malila further said the argument that the corruption fight was concentrated on crimes committed in the previous regime was self-defeating because it did not go further to show that present corruption, would not be prosecuted in the future. “The selective prosecution argument and the concentration on past corruption as...

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