The opposition National Restoration Party has backed the High Court’s decision to allow Dora Siliya and others file their nomination papers after the Patriotic Front attempted to block their candidature using the courts of law.
High Court Judge Mungeni Mulenga has granted MMD Petauke Central MP Siliya and UPND’s Maxwell Mwale and Hastings Sililo the right to re-contest their seats after they were nullified by the courts of law.
NAREP president Elias Chipimo said the PF was abusing the court process to isolate strong opposition contenders.
“We stand fully behind the judiciary regarding the impartial manner in which it has discharged its responsibilities in the adjudication of the court process over the disputed nominations of Ms. Dora Siliya and Mr. Maxwell Mwale in the Petauke Central and Malambo constituencies,” Chipimo stated.
“As NAREP we had already gone on record to express our concern at the attempt to prevent these individuals from re-contesting their seats when the republican constitution clearly protects their right to do so.”
He added: “This has been wrongly presented as a fight against corruption when in reality it has been nothing other than the PF adopting a sore loser mentality.”
Chipimo said the public were now seeing through the PF strategy to wipe out opposition in the country. “We sincerely hope that the PF will start to appreciate that their tactics of hoodwinking the public have begun to show themselves for what they really are,” he said.
”We accept that corruption is a serious problem in our politics and needs to be tackled aggressively starting with any corruption within the current administration. The fight against corruption should not be undertaken selectively to advance the interests of a governing administration but to ensure that scarce national resources are properly accounted for.”
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