Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:35:53 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO IT IS uninspiring to belong to Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) because of its failure to provide proper guidance to the citizens on critical national issues as the case is with the threatened state of emergency which it has purposefully misinterpreted, lawyer Hobday Kabwe has charged. On Monday, LAZ said the executive should not have invoked Article 31 despite such powers being given to the President and questioned whether or not a quorum was formed at the National Assembly when the declaration was approved. But speaking to the Daily Nation, Mr. Kabwe said there was a deliberate ploy by some individuals and institution to propagate their political views by purposefully failing to distinguish between a threatened state of emergency and a full state of emergency as provided for under Article 30 of the constitution. He said the declaration of a threatened state of emergency did not […]
