Veteran lawyer and former cabinet minister Roger Masauso Alivas Chongwe has died. He was 85. Dr Chogwe, a State Counsel, served as the first legal affairs minister under the Frederick Chiluba regime in 1991.
He later quit the late Frederick Chiluba’s MMD because of policy differences and proceeded to form his Liberal Progressive Front party.
In the company of Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda, Dr Chongwe was shot and wounded in 1997 by police officers during a civil disobedience rally in Kabwe. He also served as president of the African Bar Association.
May His Soul Rest In Peace.
RIP Rodger Chongwe. I still remember your contribution to the re-introduction of multi-party from the 1990 Pope Square MMD mammoth rally at which you were one of the main speakers. I was a student at UNZA then.
”DR RODGER CHONGWE HAD DIED” What nonsense is this?