Witness tells court that results were swapped in Mandevu

A WITNESS has told the Lusaka High Court that there was commotion at the Mandevu results totalling centre after UPND supporters confronted the returning officer who was alleged to have announced results which were not tallying with the GEN20 forms. This is a matter in which losing UPND Mandevu parliamentary candidate Aaron Mulope has petitioned the election of PF candidate, Christopher Shakafuswa, seeking nullification of the results, a recount, among other reliefs. When the matter came up for hearing before Judge Derrick Mulenga, Pamela Mukuka, 34, of Lusaka’s Ngombe compound testified that she was an election observer at the totalling centre in Mandevu. She narrated that on August 14, this year, as they were observing the elections, it was observed...