PF directs officials to collect voter registration data and submit to secretariat weekly
LUSAKA Province PF secretary Kennedy Kamba has directed all party district chairmen to be submitting weekly reports of all the party officials that have been captured in the ongoing voter registration exercise. In his letter dated November 11, 2020, Kamba stated that he wanted the full names, voter’s number, NRC number, phone number, and district…...
Jay Jay, others plead guilty to reduced charge of ‘disorderly conduct in a police station’
SUSPENDED Eastern Province PF youth chairperson Emmanuel Banda, commonly known as Jay Jay, and three others have been convicted by the Lusaka High Court after they pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in a police station. Lusaka High Court judge Wilfred Muma has equally convicted their co-accused Maxwell Pito of the charge of…...
Slow voter registration process worries govt
ACTING Chief Government Spokesperson Joyce Simukoko says reports that people are spending long hours on registration queues are a matter of concern especially that government has supported the Electoral Commission of Zambia to conduct the exercise efficiently. And Liuwa UPND member of parliament Situmbeko Musokotwane says strange things happening such as malfunctioning of gensets, shortage…...
ConCourt ruled that I’ve only served 1 term – Lungu
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has wondered why his 2021 eligibility has now become a problem when the Constitutional Court ruled that he has only served one term of office. And President Lungu has charged that the UPND was bent on destroying the country because they rejected Bill 10. Meanwhile, President Lungu has urged headmen and women…...
Stop playing games, HH tells ECZ
UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has asked the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to stop “playing games” with the voter registration exercise. And Hichilema says citizens should let Bill 10 rest in peace while they focus on getting voter’s cards so that they can vote out PF next year. Speaking when he featured on a special…...
LWSSC sues Lusaka Hotels over K1m bill
LUSAKA Water Supply and Sanitation Company (LWSCC) Limited has sued Lusaka Hotels Limited in the Lusaka High Court seeking payment of over K1 million outstanding bill for sewerage services it provided to the hotel. LWSSC is seeking payment of K1,004,662.70 being the outstanding bill for sewerage services provided to Lusaka Hotels Limited, interest on the…...
Lubinda’s ignorance on Constitution a danger to society – Akafumba
NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) vice-president Josephs Akafumba says the ignorance exhibited by Justice Minister Given Lubinda on Article 52 sub article (6) of the 2016 Amended Constitution is alarming. On Saturday, Lubinda had argued that Article 52 (6) of the 2016 Amended Constitution was dangerous and toxic as it gave the opposition an advantage to…...
News Diggers! ePaper Edition 817 Thursday November 12, 2020
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Strange how PF is fighting the same Constitution they gave us
Yesterday, we reviewed Article 52(6) of the Republican Constitution, which the Justice Minister says is very dangerous and extremely toxic. We demonstrated through our editorial opinion that this provision in the law is actually more advantageous to the ruling party as things stand, something which Honourable Given Lubinda did not probably realise. But today, we…...
COVID-19 cases hit 17,000
MINISTER of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya says government will use this period in which the country is recording low COVID-19 positive cases to improve the health system’s resilience ahead of the anticipated second wave of the pandemic. Speaking during the weekly COVID-19 update, Wednesday, Dr Chilufya said the rapid response teams would also be trained […]