LAZ calls upon Zambia Army commander to deal with erring military personnel

The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has called upon the Zambia Army Commander Lieutenant General Dennis Alibuzwi to take appropriate steps to promptly deal with the erring military personnel assaulting unidentified youths for purportedly insulting President Hakainde Hichilema.

Laz Honorary Secretary Sokwani Chilembo says this will help maintain the rule of law, and to deter would be offenders within their ranks.

He says the conduct exhibited by the military personnel, who are identifiable in one of the videos, is illegal, inhumane, degrading and undermines the rule of law and constitutionalism in the country.

Mr. Chilembo is appalled at videos showing military personnel assaulting unidentified youths for purportedly insulting the president of the republic of Zambia.

In a statement availed to QTV news, Mr. Chilembo says regardless of the behavior exhibited by the youths, Zambia has sufficient laws in place to deal with such conduct stressing that there is no law that gives military personnel power to mete instant penalties on erring members of society.

He says the institution bestowed with the constitutional power to effect arrests over such conduct, and possibly prosecute, is the Zambia police service, acting in liaison with the director of public prosecutions.