President Michael Sata has released 260 prisoners country-wide as part of this year’s independence celebrations.
This brings to 2,578 the total number of prisoners released this year only by President Sata following the 2,318 who were released on May 25 as part of celebrations to mark Africa Freedom day.
President Sata says the move is meant to decongest the highly crowded prison facilities in the country as well as re-integrate in-mates into society.
This is according to a statement released by special assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations George Chellah.
Chellah said President Sata released the prisoners using powers vested in him in Article 59 (d) of the Constitution of Zambia and the order of release signed today.