Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:20:03 +0000 By CHIKUMBI KATEBE LET us put behind the failed 2016 referendum and allow Zambians the opportunity to properly organize another one from the vital lessons learnt, says Young African Leaders Initiative governance organizer Isaac Mwanza. Mr Mwanza said the constitutional court’s decision to dismiss the petition to challenge the holding of the 2016 referendum along side the general elections was a clear indication that there was nothing illegal about it. He said with the petition behind, Government must begin to put in place measures to host another referendum in the shortest possible time to allow for the completion of the constitutional making process. “YALI consistently stated that no law was broken in the holding of the 2016 referendum although we still believe that a lot more could have been done to ascertain the correct threshold that should have been used in the last referendum. “We now call upon President […]
