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January 14, 2021
Wongani Chiuta -Nyasa Times 68 Comments
Two legal teams that represented President Lazarus Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the May 21 2019 presidential election nullification petition have been paid the legal fees  by government after the courts ordered they  be paid costs in billions; Treasury has confirmed.
Chakwera’s lawyers and senior counsels, Modecai Msisha and Tutus Mvalo
Chakwera had eight lawyers while Chilima had four, and the 12 initially claimed about K9 billion in legal fees.
But the court after assessing the  costs claimed by the legal teams for the two petitioners, who successfully moved a five-judge panel of the High Court sitting as the Constitutional Court to overturn the outcome of the presidential election and order a fresh election within 150 days from February 3 2020 , came with a figure of around K5 billion. ....

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