Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:35:54 +0000 By CHARLES MUSONDA THE High Court has no jurisdiction to remove the Litunga because only the President is competent to set up an inquiry to question one’s qualification or validity to hold the position of Chief, pursuant to provisions of the Chiefs Act, lawyers representing Edwin Lubosi Imwiko (the Litunga) have submitted. In the respondents’ submissions in support of notice of intention to raise additional preliminary issues filed in the Mongu High Court yesterday, the lawyers said the application for an order to have the Litunga resign or abdicate as traditional ruler of Western province was wrongly before court. This in a case where Nabiwa Imikendu, Litia Charles Mutemwa, Mukubesa Ilukena and Mumbisho Liswaniso have applied for a court order to have the Litunga resign or abdicate his position. “From the foregoing we wish to submit that clearly the Applicants have resorted to a wrongful mode of commencement […]
