Zambia: Lungu Has Powers - Tribunal

THE tribunal probing suspended Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito has ruled that President Lungu has powers to amend the tribunal's terms of references at any time.

Chairperson, Annel Silungwe in his ruling yesterday, said there is no authority that bars the President from amending the terms of references and is within the law regardless of an absence of procedural provisions for such amendments.

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