Sangwa should be disciplined - ZRP

JOHN Sangwa should be admonished for undermining the integrity of the Constitutional court and demeaning the character of the judges who presided over the eligibility case, petitioners in the eligibility case have charged.

Mr. Sangwa was yesterday quoted as saying Constitutional Court judges and President Edgar Lungu acted corruptly by offering and accepting job offers and positions they did not qualify for. He said then Constitutional Court itself was incompetent to interpret the Constitution because all the

judges remained unqualified

to hold their positions.

But speaking to the Daily Nation yesterday, one of the petitioners in the case involving the eligibility of President Edgar Lungu to contest the 2021 elections, Wright Musoma, said Mr. Sangwa had gone overboard and needed to be disciplined.

The petitioners are also

pondering unspecified legal

action against Mr Sangwa who they accused of pushing a political agenda.

“We will drag him to court because we know that he is pushing a perception agenda to try to ridicule the judiciary and the President over a matter which was resolved by the Constitutional Court where he himself was party to the case. “How can a

highly qualified lawyer sue the

president and the Speaker and take the matter to the same incompetent court with

unqualified lawyers? At what

point did he realize that the

judges were incompetent? Is

he telling us he was not aware before talking the case to the

court?” Mr. Musoma said.

He advised Mr. Sangwa to realise that the law was not made to suit certain individuals like him and that it would be frivolous for anyone to think that because he was a lawyer, then he must win all cases even ones in which he misguided himself.

“By Mr. Sangwa suggesting that the Constitutional Court is incompetent, he is undermining the authority of the judiciary and must be disciplined and this is why last time we said if the

Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has some semblance

of credence, it should have curtailed him but we have now realised that the two are towing the same line.

“We feel this is a very big insult and we are appealing to the judiciary that he should be discpilined. No one will respect our judges because of the ridicule he has continued

to subject them to,” he said.