Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:51:30 +0000 By CHARLES MUSONDA INCARCERATED UPND president Hakainde Hichilema’s contempt case against National Guidance and Religious Affairs minister Godfridah Sumaili yesterday failed to take off in the Lusaka Magistrate Court for the third time. And a Lusaka housewife and her neighbour have admitted assaulting a woman they suspected to be a prostitute in a recent video that went viral on social media. Hichilema and his five treason co-accused were brought to court yesterday and Reverend Sumaili was equally present but most of the UPND lawyers were not in court as they were attending to another matter in Kabwe before the Constitutional Court. This is the case in which Hichilema and the five others want to be allowed to apply for bail pending trial. When the contempt case came up before senior resident magistrate Irene Wishimanga, one of Hichilema’s lawyers Dr. Henry Mbushi told the court that most of his colleagues […]
