Sun, 04 Dec 2016 12:02:19 +0000 Trouble at the High Court bench Dear Editor, Nerves of steel could soon be a prerequisite left for Lusaka Central PF member of parliament Margaret Mwanakatwe. And that is due to Judge Mwiinde Siavwapa’s refusal to grant her a stay of execution, because doing so, in his view, would be an attempt on his part to prevent the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) from performing their duties which would be an illegality. Presumably, this judgement renders the Lusaka Central PF member of parliament’s appeal to the Constitutional Court meaningless and purely academic (“Judge Siavwapa refuses Mwanakatwe a stay”, Daily Nation, December 3, 2016). Strange as it may appear, Ndola High Court judge Edward Musona in a similar matter granted Professor Nkandu Luo a stay of execution pending determination by the Supreme Court and she has since returned to parliament and resumed […]
