INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says opposition members of parliament actually speak more than government officials or their UPND colleagues in Parliament because there’s enhanced freedom of expression in the country. And Milupi says the challenge with the opposition today is that whenever they speak, they do not offer any progressive alternatives but constantly vilify President Hakainde Hichilema. Commenting on Swedish Ambassador to Zambia Johan Hallenborg’s statement that it is concerning that opposition political parties have in the recent months been prevented from performing their role of providing dissenting opinions, Milupi argued that nobody had stopped the propagation of different ideas. “In Parliament, they talk. What ideas do we hear? They hold press conferences, they are on...

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