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Prisons Care & Counselling Association (PRISCCA) Executive Director Godfrey Malembeka has commended President Edgar Lungu for commuting 246 inmates from death row sentencing to life imprisonment. Mr. Malembeka indicated that the current President has so far commuted over 630 inmates during his tenure saying that it is an impressive record which demonstrates a willingness to respect and uphold human rights. Speaking in a statement, Mr. Malembeka noted that the act will not only decongest the Correctional Centres but also meant to protect inmates from contracting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Executive Director stated that Mukobeko Maximum facility only has a capacity of 50 people at its condemned section but the number has kept increasing with more than 400 inmates just before yesterday’s commutation, thereby subjecting inmates to untold congestion, an infringement on their rights. ....
THE Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says it has registered over seven million eligible voters for the 2021 general elections. The Commission also said it had managed to register 93 per cent of eligible prisoners as voters to take part in the election. Addressing the press yesterday, ECZ Chief Electoral Officer Patrick Nshindano announced that new statistics showed that less than nine million Zambians were currently eligible to vote. “The Commission had captured a total of 6,407,752 registered voters during phases one, two, three and four of the exercise. The extended four days gave us a figure of 612,997 registered voters, bringing the total number of registered voters for the entire period of the voter registration exercise to a provisional total of 7,020,749,” Nshindano said. “Kindly take note that the figure is provisional as the data collected will be subjected to de-duplication and clean-up process.” ....