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Judiciary lacks autonomy – Sangwa

By BARNABAS ZULU

THE independence of the Judiciary is being undermined by its lack of financial autonomy as it has been reduced to beggers from the executive and is unable to challenge presidential constitutional breaches, State Counsel John Sangwa has said.

And Mr Sangwa has charged that there is no single Judge in Zambia who could ever claim to have been appointed on merit, a situation he says has undermined the independence of the Judiciary as well as individual judges.

Mr Sangwa SC has  also made striking revelations that President Hakainde Hichilema has emerged as a leader who is beyond control because the Judiciary is literary under the executive. Mr Sangwa says appointing Judges in Zambia was like appointing people into a secret society CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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