Mon, 22 May 2017 13:26:29 +0000 By JUSTINA MULENGA GOVERNMENT should renovate and maintain all prisons in Zambia to decongest them as prisoners are human beings with the right to good shelter, says 3rd Liberation Movement President, Enoch Tonga. Mr Tonga said all prisons in Zambia were in deplorable states. Speaking to the Daily Nation in an interview yesterday, Mr Tonga said the judicial system in Zambia was not doing much and their relevance was strongly diminishing. He said there were so many law breakers due to unemployment and many of these unemployed resorted to criminal activities to earn a living. “It is common among most unemployed youths to resort to criminal activities due to joblessness and these end up in prison,” he said. Mr Tonga said government needed to prioritise creating more employment opportunities and offering entrepreneurial skills to the youths. He said youths take up almost 90 percent of the country’s population and […]
