Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:49:29 +0000 Alliance for Good Governance (AGG) is concerned with the government’s arbitrary ban and denial to its citizens the rights to hold public gatherings in the country aimed at exchanging views and deliberating on national issues such as the constitution making process. According to AGG, the threats of deregistration and arrest of NGOs and their leaders which came from the Minister of Justice for merely holding public consultative forum on the constitution making process opened a sad and also retrogressive chapter in the Zambian Governance history. The unabated denial by authorities to allow opposition political actors to exercise their constitutional rights to assemble, demonstrate and associate was another problem to Zambian’s political development. “Government’s sensitivity to criticisms is extremely alarming and a danger to people’s freedoms as it has the potential to create mechanism to silence all government critics and divergent views.” The alliance further noted that the tolerance of […]
