‘ECZ SHOULD HAVE DISQUALIFIED UPND IN KANYAMA’

…not just suspending campaigns – NteweweBy SIMON MUNTEMBATHE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) should have disqualified the UPND Kanyama Parliamentary candidate than just suspending campaigns, Young African Leaders initiative (YALI) president Andrew Ntewewe has said.Mr Ntewewe said the UPND deserved a stiffer punishment for perpetuating violence which left two PF members dead than just suspending campaigns to deter would-be offenders.He was reacting to the suspension of the UPND from conducting any form of campaigns in Lusaka’s Kanyama Constituency.ECZ corporate affairs manager Patricia Luhanga said the suspension follows the escalating political violence in Kanyama Constituency in which lives of two PF supporters were lost under gruesome circumstances.Ms Luhanga in a statement said after having instituted investigations in the matter, the commission saw it appropriate to suspend the UPND from campaigning in the constituency.“The Commission has pursuant to Article 229, Sub-article 2 (e) of the Republican Constitution and Subparagraphs 4 (1) (c) (d) (i) and 11 (d) […]