NOMINATION fees are non-refundable and not transferable, Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Public Relations Manager Patricia Luhanga has said.Ms Luhanga said the nomination fees that can- didates aspiring for the Presidency were paying were not refundable. This follows demands by All People’s Congress Party (APC) leader Nason Msoni that ECZ immediately re- funds him the K95, 000 he paid as nomination fees following his failure to file his nomination. 20 Presidential candi- dates had paid nomination fees while 16 had success- fully filed-in their Nomina- tions.And Patriots for Eco- nomic Progress (PeP) president Sean Tembo has said ECZ should immedi- ately refund the four pres- idential candidates whose nominations were not successful their K95, 000 which each paid, without any delay.Mr Tembo said ECZ structured its nomination process upside down by first collecting a payment before verifying that a can- didate has satisfied the other requirements.“The standard operating procedure for any decent organisation is to […]
NOMINATION FEES NOT REFUNDABLE – ECZ
