Crack whip on other lawyers too, LAZ urgedBy Times Reporter FORMER Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Edward Mumbi has urged the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) to extend its whip to other lawyers who are passing disparaging comments on the judiciary. Mr Mumbi said in reaction to LAZ's decision to write to Lusaka lawyer Rodger Chongwe reprimanding him over his recent public attacks on the judiciary. He said that it was good for LAZ to rise above petty politics that was allegedly developing in the law fraternity because lawyers were held in high esteem. Mr Mumbi said LAZ should also discipline Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Wynter Kabimba who had been issuing statements against the judiciary without stating whether he was commenting as a politician or as a lawyer. "Such lawyers should come out in the open and state whether they are issuing statements as lawyers or as politicians so that people can know," he said. He said Mr Kabimba had been hiding in a lawyer's jacket when issuing statements from a political point of view that lowered the standing of lawyers in the country. Mr Mumbi said LAZ should have also talked about South Africa based law professor Michelo Hansungule who had been seen as an opinion leader for lawyers in the country. He said that Prof Hansungule had been commenting and ridiculing the judiciary on many judgments when he was not even practicing law in the country. And the Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) has advised other Church mother bodies to accept the court's decision against former president Frederick Chiluba's registration of the London High Court judgment. ICOZ president Reverend David Masupa said yesterday in Lusaka it was wrong for the Catholic Church and the Anglicans to accuse President Rupiah Banda of having secured the courts decision on the former head of State. .He said from the constitutional provisions it is clear President Banda is not responsible for the decision of High Court Judge Evans Hamaundu. Rev Masupa said even the decision not to appeal against the High Court judgment has nothing to do with President Banda because that is a responsibility of Attorney General.