information of interest to the public. Therefore, that the refusal to provide information relating to the declaration of assets by President Hakainde Hichilerna to the Petitioner was in conflct with the spirit and tenor of the Constitution and the Electoral Process Act. The Petitioner concluded that the l5t Respondent has no exclusive rights to hold on to the information in issue as if it was private information. [38] In reply to the 1st Respondent's oral submissions, the Petitioner repeated that Article 52 (3) hinges on the word "publish" and not "prescribed". [39] Addressing the 2nd Respondent's submission that in the absence of the procedure for publishing being prescribed the declaration of assets and liabilities could not be published, the Petitioner argued that the 1st Respondent published the information for candidates at constituency, district and ward levels in the absence of a procedure for publishing the same. Therefore, that the argument on requirement for the procedure was self­ contradictory. The Petitioner reiterated his earlier reasons on why the Petition focuses on the Republican President. CONSIDERATION AND DECISION [40] We have considered the Petition, the Answers, the affidavits, the skeleton arguments and the oral submissions by the parties. While the Petition appears to be only focused on the declaration of assets and liabilities of the current Republican President, the J17

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