Caritas Zambia’s has suspended its joint-ngo honking protest campaign against the acquittal of former-President Fredrick Chiluba on corruption charges after a request from the police.
The organisations last week resolved to be honking every Friday from 17:00 hours in protest against the acquittal.
Caritas Zambia Executive Director Sam Mulafulafu said that although the consortium of the 18 CSOs disagreed with the police on the interpretation of honking as a crime, it yesterday resolved to suspend the exercise.
But the NGOs also appealed to Zambians to continue wearing black attire on Friday and actively participate in all advocacy activities in their respective areas. Mulafulafu said the consortium would launch massive country wide demonstrations next Friday.
Caritas Zambia runs governance and anti-corruption programmes, holòding the national government to account for its spending.
