Responding to questions in Parliament last week, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said Government is working on phasing out all non-degreed police public prosecutors seconded to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
He was responding to a question from Zengeza West MDC MP Job Sikhala who asked what Government was doing to deal with the problem of under-qualified people in the Judiciary. Ziyambi did not give time frames but urged police prosecutors keen on joining the NPA to upgrade their qualifications through attaining law degrees. Said Ziyambi:
The NPA Act stipulates that all our law officers must have a law degree and we are in the process of ensuring that we comply with that requirement (of the NPA Act) and very soon we will phase out all those who are under qualified from our establishment. We don’t want to disturb the justice system. What we are doing is that we applied to Treasury so that we can be allocated posts and I am very happy that this year we got some posts that were allocated for prosecutors. So, progressively, as we fill in the posts, we will request that those that have been seconded should go back. We do not want to create a shortage when we have not been given posts.
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