By GRACE CHAILE LESOETSATHE Constitutional Court has ruled that it will hear both the petition and cross-petition in the matter in which former Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liquidator Milingo Lungu is claiming immunity from prosecution allegedly granted to him by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).This is after the court declined to grant the applications to dismiss the petition and the cross-petition by the State and Mr Lungu respectively.The State had raised a notice of motion in which it sought the dismissal of the petition on preliminary points of law contending that the petition did not disclose any constitutional cause of action or violation of the constitution upon which to warrant the subsistence of the matter before the ConCourt.While Mr Lungu applied that the court throws out the State’s cross-petition in which Attorney General Kabesha Mulilo is demanding that it declares illegal the purported immunity from prosecution dated March 22, 2022, granted to the […]
ConCourt rejects State’s application to dismiss Milingo Lungu’s petition
