By NATION REPORTER
I was shocked by the political statement issued by the Attorney General, Mulilo Kabesha SC, on what appears to be advice or warning to citizens on criminal defamation of the President and alleged breaking of cyber laws because the Attorney General is a non-politician who sits in Cabinet as an ex-official, Patriotic Front (PF) aspiring president Emmanuel Mwamba has said.
Mr Mwamba said the AG’s responsibility was for the sole purpose of providing legal advice on all government policy decisions and contractual obligations.
He said as Attorney General, his duty is to advice the President, Cabinet, Ministers and their Permanent Secretaries and other non-legal experts holding constitutional offices, to guard against legal blunders.
“So for the Attorney General to take up the space of the Home Affairs Minister or the duties of the Inspector General of Police and directly warn citizens over perceived violation of the law, is extremely strange. It appears that this hastily made press address by the Attorney General was designed to pre-empt or justify the arrest of Chilufya Tayali’s address,” he said.
Mr Tayali had earlier stated that he would discuss Government’s decisions to offer Grant Thornton, a private audit and advisory firm, access to audit the books of the Security and Defence Forces.
