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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The returning officer for Chawama Constituency a Mr. Jonathan Nkata told the High court yesterday that they used Guess work to arrive at the figures that determined the winner of the parliamentary election in Chawama Constituency.<\/p>\n

He admitted that due to lack of time his team decided to fabricate figures in favour of Tasila Lungu. Mr. Nkhata told the court that he attended court on Tuesday 26:10 :2021 even when he knew he was going to be a witness on 29:10:2021. Judgement of the Chawama Constituency petition comes on 19:11:2021<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. The returning officer for Chawama Constituency a Mr. Jonathan Nkata told the High court yesterday that they used Guess work to arrive at the figures that determined the winner of the parliamentary election in Chawama Constituency. He admitted that due to lack of time his team decided to fabricate figures in favour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,866,3887,233],"class_list":["post-8824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-chawama-constituency","tag-mr-jonathan-nkata","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nState House Told Us To Make Tasila Win ECZ Official Tells Court - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The returning officer for Chawama Constituency a Mr. Jonathan Nkata told the High court yesterday that they used Guess w ...\" \/>\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-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State House Told Us To Make Tasila Win ECZ Official Tells Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The returning officer for Chawama Constituency a Mr. Jonathan Nkata told the High court yesterday that they used Guess w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-30T03:16:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-31T03:40:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/10\/img-617e1011c8548.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"State House Told Us To Make Tasila Win ECZ Official Tells Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-30T03:16:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-31T03:40:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\"},\"wordCount\":110,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/10\/img-617e1011c8548.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Chawama Constituency\",\"Mr. Jonathan Nkata\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/state-house-told-us-to-make-tasila-win-ecz-official-tells-court\",\"name\":\"State House Told Us To Make Tasila Win ECZ Official Tells Court - 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