HUNDREDS of University of Zambia (UNZA) students yesterday protested over recent power outages, the ongoing go slow by university staff and they backed calls for the removal of vice-chancellor Professor Luke Mumba. The students, who set out to seek an audience with President Hakainde Hichilema, marched all the way from UNZA to Addis-Ababa Road where police eventually blocked them from reaching their destination, State House. During their march, which disrupted traffic for about an hour, the students chanted various slogans, prominent among them was “VC out!” Speaking on behalf of the students, UNZASU president Gabriel Elias Banda pleaded for President Hichilema’s intervention on the challenges which they faced. “The vice-chancellor and his management have failed to run UNZA therefore, we...

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