POLL ALARMISTS BLASTEDEDITOR’S NOTE: The Daily Nation would like to retract yesterday’s headline story titled “CAUGHT IN THE ACT”. We have since learnt that the staff were actually doing routine work involving Gen 18 forms and not Gen 20 as alluded to in our story.…No one was caught, ECZ staff were doing normal work – ECZLOSING UPND candidates and their supporters were behind the rowdy fracas that erupted at the Lusaka Civic Centre where Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) staff were harassed and threatened on a misconception that they were allegedly altering Gen 20 poll result figures.The angry crowd accused the staff of holding a secretive exercise to clean the poll records in readiness for petitions.Electoral Commission of Zambia Corporate Affairs Manager Patricia Luhanga has however said there was nothing secretive about the exercise because all stakeholders had been invited to be part of thepost-election ballot paper reconciliation exercise.And contrary to what was being claimed […]
POLL ALARMISTS BLASTED
