PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has pardoned 1,505 inmates who were serving various sentences. According to a statement issued by Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security Permanent Secretary Dickson Matembo, Monday, President Hichilema also substituted sentences for 797 inmates. “In the spirit of forgiveness, compassion and reconciliation, His Excellency Mr Hakainde Hichilema, President of the Republic of Zambia and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force, has exercised his prerogative of mercy on 1,505 inmates. These inmates are categorised as follows: 700 ordinary inmates, one old aged inmate, two convicted female inmates with circumstantial children, five convicted foreign nationals, and commutation of sentences of 797 inmates to various terminable sentences,” Matembo stated. “This is in exercise of the powers conferred on the President...