More demand justice for FTJ

MORE citizens have joined demands for late President Fredrick Chiluba to be granted justice posthumously after it emerged he was unconstitutionally prosecuted. Green Party president Peter Sinkamba said there was need to constitute a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to probe the injustices committed against Dr Chiluba. The role of the TRC will in this case be to discover and reveal past wrongdoing that might have been committed against the former head of State. Mr Sinkamba said there was need to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of the injustices. The commission would serve to answer the many unanswered issues on how Dr Chiluba was prosecuted illegally, he said. Mr. Sinkamba told the Daily Nation an interview yesterday, it was prudent that the nation knew what led to the illegal prosecution of the late president. Supreme Court Judge Philip Musonda said on Sunday said the lifting of Dr Chiluba’s immunity was illegal because the alleged offences on which his immunity was lifted were not the same as those under which he was charged in court. Mr Justice Musonda was delivering a lecture at Mulungushi International Conference Centre on the lifting of the presidential immunity in Zambia in Lusaka to mark the eighth anniversary of Dr Chiluba’s death. And National Restoration Party (NAREP) secretary general Ezra Ngulube said there was need to establish the truth on the prosecution alleged to have been illegal.