By GRACE CHAILE LESOETSAWITH hours remaining to voting, UPND has written to the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) against any decision by Government to shut down access to the internet on polling and counting day.UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda in a letter addressed to ECZ, Attorney General, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary and Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) demands for immediate annulment of any present or future decision to shut down internet access.Mr Imenda alleged that on Monday, Information Permanent Secretary Amos Malipenga announced the government’s threat to shut down access to the internet on polling day.He complained that the decision to shut down the internet will deny stakeholders, the important need to access data and sharing the same via the internet to make their own verification and informed analysis of results or challenge the results in courts of law, if need be.UPND demands an unequivocal pronouncement by ECZ, that […]
UPND CRIES FOUL, WARY OF INTERNET SHUTDOWN, COMPLAINS TO ECZ
