By CHARLES MUSONDATHE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has warned the State to be serious and make progress in the case Economic Equity Party (EEP) leader Chilufya Tayali is charged with defamation of the President for accusing then President Edgar Lungu of influencing turmoil in Zambia.Tayali was arrested in May this year and denied the charge but until yesterday trial has not yet started.When the matter came up yesterday, a public prosecutor told Magistrate Alice Walusiku that the State was not ready to proceed because witnesses were not before court.The prosecutor said he had communicated with the arresting officer who told him that he had failed to trace witnesses as one of them who used to be at State House is no longer there while the other one was in custody for other offences.But Ms. Walusiku asked the State to be serious and make progress because Tayali had already taken plea.She said going to court is traumatizing […]
COURT WARNS STATE IN TAYALI LIBEL CASE
