HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu says former president Edgar Lungu is being mischievous by condemning President Hakainde Hichilema’s remarks that the Constitution has some lacunas which risk the country not having general elections for eight or nine years. In a statement recently, Lungu said that President Hichilema’s ignorance of the Zambian Constitution could be very destructive and had potential to set the country on fire. But in an interview, Tuesday, Mwiimbu reminded Lungu that his then justice minister Given Lubinda had described the same article President Hichilema was referring to as dangerous and toxic. “I want to state that the former president Lungu is being mischievous, pertaining to the statement issued in the House over Article 52...

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