Legal framework doesn’t provide for advertisement of judicial vacancies, insists Haimbe

JUSTICE Minister Mulambo Haimbe says government’s position on Constitutional lawyer John Sangwa’s proposal to advertise the Chief Justice position was from an informed point of view. Recently, Haimbe said advertising the position of the Chief justice had no constitutional backing and that there was need of an amendment to facilitate for that in response to a suggestion from constitutional lawyer John Sangwa. But Constitutional and International Human Rights Lawyer Professor Cephas Lumina argued that there was no need for a constitution amendment to advertise the Chief Justice position as the existing legal framework was sufficient, adding that Haimbe spoke from an uninformed position. Reacting to Prof Lumina’s remarks, however, Haimbe insisted that the current legal framework did not provide for...