Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:42:31 +0000 By Chikumbi Katebe THE ‘wamuyayaya’ effects attached to unlimited presidential term of office must also apply to councillors and Members of Parliament as they are all elected constitutional office holders, says Isaac Mwanza. Mr Mwanza was one of the petitioners who have picketed Parliament to consider limiting MPs and Councillors’ terms of office in line with the limited terms for Presidential office holders and Mayors and Council Chairpersons respectively. He said it was hypocritical for anybody to try and justify limits to the presidential and mayor/council chairperson tenure of office but that the same could not apply to MPs and councillors. “The 2016 amended Constitution has limited the term of office for Mayors, Council Chairpersons and President to two terms of 5 years each. “As the petitioners, we have asked MPs to engage in an honest debate on limitation of terms as both terms for Mayors and President have […]
