Charge Lumumba over presiding officer’s assault

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) earlier this week advised the police to charge Presidential Advisor Odinga Lumumba over an elections day incident in which he is alleged to have shoved a Presiding Officer and destroyed a phone belong to an elections observer.

Stabroek News was reliably informed that it has been recommended that Lumumba be charged with assault and provoking a breach of the peace.

Efforts to contact senior police officials to