By Talent Gondo- Information secretary Nick Mangwana has said that the new Protection of Personal Information Bill shall see Political parties prosecuted and penalised for accessing citizen’s personal mobile phone numbers and using them to solicit votes. 

Said Mangwana:

The Protection of Personal Information Bill came from section 75 of the constitution which is our rights to privacy.

You know every one of us go to the Registrar General’s Office and you give your information.

You then start receiving text messages from certain political parties and when formulating this bill, people gave an example of the previous elections when people started receiving text messages from certain political parties asking for your vote and you start questioning and asking yourself where they got your information, it makes people uncomfortable because they want their information protected.