ACTING Infrastructure, Housing, and Urban Development Minister Gary Nkombo has described suggestions that the President is using public funds to maintain Community House as demeaning and incorrect. Nkombo says President Hakainde Hichilema was self-sustaining at the point he got into public office. While debating the 2023 budget allocation for the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing, and Urban Development, Matero PF MP Miles Sampa wondered why there had been a reduction in the funds allocated to the road sector. He questioned whether the “meagre” amount allocated to the road sector was intended for the construction of a road leading to the Community House, among other claims. “In the 2021 budget, when the new dawn took over from the PF, they increased the...

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