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JUMA: Removal threats against Wetang’ula far-fetched

The political colossus called Wetang’ula has weathered many storms, some quite intense

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by NICK JUMA

News02 March 2025 - 13:35
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National Assembly Speaker Moses Masika Wetang’ula/FILE


If you doubt that National Assembly Speaker Moses Masika Wetang’ula, is a brave man, you only need to recall 1982, when as a young lawyer, he stepped forward to represent the coup plotters of that year, led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, at their treason trial.

This was under the infamous single-party rule, and a police state, in any association with people who had just tried to overthrow the constitutional order could have been seen as inviting jail or death.

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