UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda says it’s not every person who has been acquitted who should be compensated, arguing that it depends on the circumstances of the case. On Friday, Lusaka Lawyer Makebi Zulu said former president Edgar Lungu’s political advisor Chris Zumani Zimba and other gassing suspects were the ones who were properly entitled to compensation. But in an interview, Monday, Imenda wondered whether everybody who had been acquitted of criminal offences should be compensated. “It’s not everybody who has been acquitted who is compensated, it depends on the circumstances. Everybody who is acquitted of a charge, what about ordinary people who have been charged and acquitted of criminal offence? So, everybody is going to be compensated? Is...

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