{"id":32202,"date":"2022-10-12T20:21:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-sued-over-illegal-search-of-lungus-property"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:21:21","slug":"state-sued-over-illegal-search-of-lungus-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-sued-over-illegal-search-of-lungus-property","title":{"rendered":"State sued over `illegal\u2019 search of Lungu\u2019s property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>ZAMBIA Community Development Initiative Programme has sued in the Constitutional Court contesting the actions by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to search former President Edgar Lungu\u2019s property without lifting of his immunity by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation contends that the actions by DEC are illegal and a disregard of Mr Lungu\u2019s rights, immunity, status and standing. It thus seeks the ConCourt\u2019s interpretation of the extent of the immunity of the President. This is according to originating summons filed in ConCourt by Tutwa S. Ngulube Company yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In an affidavit in support of originating summons, Zambia Community Development Initiative Programme managing director Hendrix Nyambe said that DEC attempted to seize the former Head of State\u2019s property when his immunity had not been lifted by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nyambe contended that his case was properly before the ConCourt as there is need for interpretation as to whether the immunity of a former President does extend to the investigative wings of government such as DEC and is a subject to criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. ZAMBIA Community Development Initiative Programme has sued in the Constitutional Court contesting the actions by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to search former President Edgar Lungu\u2019s property without lifting of his immunity by Parliament. The organisation contends that the actions by DEC are illegal and a disregard of Mr Lungu\u2019s rights, immunity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,248],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-32202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State sued over `illegal\u2019 search of Lungu\u2019s property - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-sued-over-illegal-search-of-lungus-property\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State sued over `illegal\u2019 search of Lungu\u2019s property\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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