THE Patriotic Front has written to the Zambia Correctional Service Commissioner General questioning why party members were denied access to Zumani Zimba and others who are remanded in custody. On Saturday, PF vice-president Given Lubinda, who was accompanied by some party MCCs, alleged that prison authorities at Mwembeshi Correctional facility had denied them access to the former State House political advisor and four others because they had been instructed to bar them from conducting missionary work. Lubinda further claimed that the prison authorities asked PF members to get clearance from the Minister of Home Affairs on behalf of President Hakainde Hichilema if they wanted to enter the correctional facility. But in an interview, Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack...

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