Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:04:07 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO THE judiciary should support Government’s efforts in implementing the austerity measures intended to recover the economy by avoiding unnecessary by-elections, National Institute for Public Administration Students Union (NIPASU) president Joseph Busenga has advised. In an interview with the Daily Nation, Mr Busenga said it was good that Government had put in place austerity measures to ensure that there was money in the Treasury but that the number of by-elections were frustrating the measures for economic recovery. Mr Busenga pointed out that the austerity measures would significantly accelerate the rate at which the country’s economy was recovering. Mr Busenga however stated that the judiciary was suffocating Government’s efforts in ensuring that the economy was quickly revamped by exerting extra pressure on the Treasury beyond the Budget. He explained that some of the grounds on which the courts were basing their nullifications of election petitions were of no […]
