Police in Zambia have warned former President Edgar Lungu against conducting ‘unlawful’ rallies.
Lungu led a procession in the Central Business District (CBD) of the nation’s capital in Lusaka — a move police said disrupted public peace and order.
But in a Facebook post, Lungu said he went to the CBD to have a feel of how traders are with what he termed as an apparent high cost of doing business.
Lungu lost the 2021 general elections by a landslide of more than 1 million votes to incumbent Hakainde Hichilema.
Despite announcing his retirement soon after the elections, he resurfaced last year with an announcement he had returned to active politics.
Lungu is, however, currently embroiled in a legal row concerning the leadership of the Patriotic Front, the party that sponsored his candidacy in 2021, with speculation surrounding his eligibility to run in the next general election in 2026.