Center for Democracy and Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) and a journalist Mundango Nyirenda have applied for an injunction and judicial review against government’s decision to implement mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for some groups of people.

According to Oscar Taulo, lawyer representing CDEDI and the journalist, the two are seeking an injunction restraining government from implementing mandatory Covid-19 vaccination to its people.

Taulo also said the two are also seeking an injunction restraining Parliament from sending away people and journalists who are not vaccinated.

He said the two are also seeking an injunction to restrict institutions from stopping their employees from entering work places because they did not receive the Covid-19 shots.

CDEDI’s Executive Director, activist Silvester Namiwa has in the past been speaking strongly against government’s proposed plan to gradually implement mandatory jabs to some selected groups, saying that doing so would be violating people’s rights.

Meanwhile, Judge Kennyata Nyirenda will hear the application on 3 January 2022.