Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:47:26 +0000 By ANNIE ZULU ELECTORAL violence is a new phenomenon in Zambian politics which the people of Zambia should reject with the contempt it deserves, Commission of Inquiry on Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence Chairperson Justice Munalula Lisimba has said. Justice Lisimba said through the Commission which Government has established to inquire into the voting patterns and electoral violence from 2006 to 2016, Zambians had the opportunity to roundly and loudly reject electoral violence by recommending appropriate measures that should be taken to avoid a recurrence of the scourge. He said if left unchecked, electoral violence had the potential to erode the positive gains Zambia has achieved in democratic governance since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1991 for which the country is admired world over. “This commission of inquiry is critical in helping us get to the root of the electoral violence that has been witnessed in our […]
