By NATION REPORTERA HOLISTIC approach is needed to deal with decriminalizing the defamation of the president law and not piece meal attempts, governance activist, Isaac Mwanza has said.Governance activist Isaac Mwanza in a write-up explains that former Republican president Dr Edgar Lungu when in power indicated that the repealing of defamation of the President was going to be attractive to us as activists but to many lawyers, they know it would be cosmetic for him to repeal Section 69 alone as it would not end the punishing of those who defame the President using the same Penal Code. He said the former head of state indicated that the Penal Code still had provisions that punished criminal defamation apart from Section 69 and therefore called for a holistic approach by the Law Development Commission to deal with the particular law.“In 2017, a year after the then President Edgar Lungu assented the Constitution that reduced presidential powers, […]
Abolishing of defamation of the president cosmetic – Mwanza
