Speech For Growth, a Civil
Society Organisation has backed the move by the Registrar of Societies to issue
a fresh 21-day notice to the opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD)
requesting the party to settle the outstanding K400 million Kwacha owed as
statutory fees or face deregistration.
Speech for Growth Director John
Mutekenya says he sees nothing wrong with the plans by the Registrar of
Societies in deciding to take action over MMD’s nonpayment of the statutory
fees.
Mr. Mutekenya notes that the
former ruling party should have known it was required to be paying statutory
fees as a party still in operation.
In an interview with ZANIS, Mr.
Mutekenya stated that just because the party was just coming from being in
office did not give the MMD an excuse as a sacred party.
And, Anti-Voter Apathy Project
(AVAP) executive director Richwell Mulwani expressed disappointment as to why
the former ruling party was owing the Registrar of Societies an enormous bill.
Mr. Mulwani stated that what the
Registrar of societies was doing was only trying to remind MMD of their arrears
adding that the former ruling party should not even cry foul as though they
were the only ones being targeted.
He observed that MMD was a big
political party and was expected to abide by the rules of the country.
He has since called on all MMD
party members to mobilize them-selves in order to meet the required outstanding
amount owed to the Registrar of Societies.
Yesterday the Registrar of
Societies issued a fresh de-registration notice to the Former ruling party
demanding that the party pays 400 million Kwacha owed as statutory fees for the
42 branches countrywide
ZANIS
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