NOTHING WRONG WITH ECL ADVANCING PRECONDITIONS FOR MEETING HH – MUKANDILA
…adds that the rule of Law has been shrinking in Zambia
Lusaka… Wednesday October 16, 2024 (SMART EAGLES)
Lusaka Lawyer Celestine Mambula Mukandila has charged that the rule of law has been shrinking in the country causing tensions more especially on the political front.
And Mr Mukandila says there is nothing wrong with former Republican President Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu in advancing conditions before approaching the proposed dialogue with President Hakainde Hichilema.
Speaking when he featured on Millennium Television’s The Pulse programme, Mr Mukandila observed that there is a serious breakdown in the rule of law in the country.
He said it is normal for the former Head of State to give conditions before meeting President Hichilema to dialogue as proposed by the Oasis Forum and the Church.
He said for example, there is nothing wrong for President Lungu to give a condition of restoring the Patriotic Front records at the Registrar of Societies to the way it was before the ‘illegal convention’ was held on October 24th, 2023.
“Dialogue in itself is a process of bringing parties together which will see parties coming with their own conditions because they want to acquire certain things. Remember we are dealing with an individual who is a former President of this country, he has occupied the Office of the Presidency before. He ruled this country for seven years. That should tell you that whatever y says is not coming from without as he has the full knowledge of running a country,” he said.
“President Lungu knows that the incumbent is capable of influencing and changing details at the Registrar of Societies to where they were before the 24th October, 2023. The people of Zambia are aware that the illegal convention by Miles Sampa had the full blessings of the State. For the first time in the history of Zambia, we were celebrating Independence with the visiting foreign Head of State, we had a political party undergoing a coup d’état which was extremely unconstitutional. And the police were at hand to guard that undemocratic procession.”
Mr Mukandila alleged that whatever has happened to the former ruling party is as a result of the State and the UPND as a political party.
He recalled that the former Registrar of Societies refused to change the details of the PF records and she was fired despite the State saying she was transferred.
“That in itself should tell you that the State had a hand in the whole thing. And that is why President Lungu is advancing that condition. President Lungu has been persecuted, his family has been persecuted as they are always in court,” he stated.
Mr Mukandila further said the country’s democracy is under serious threat.
He said the freedom fighters must be turning in their graves to see what is happening in the country at the moment.
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