State Counsel Chifumu Banda has raised serious concerns about the functioning of Zambia’s democracy following the 2026 general elections and the subsequent closure of the courts on the last day that presidential election petition was expected to be filed. In an interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, State Counsel Banda questioned whether the judiciary and executive hich should work independently and if they are now working in concert, following the Judiciary’s silence after the executive arm, through the police, blocked public access to the courts on Monday 24 August 2026, a day deemed to have been the last...
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