PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says those who were impatient throughout the debt restructuring process are the ones who peed in the country’s only well. And President Hichilema says government is stating to repay the debt this year so that future generations are not burdened. Addressing some students who paid a courtesy call on him from UNZA, CBU, Evelyn Hone College, NIPA, NRDC, and other tertiary institutions, Thursday, President Hichilema said without debt restructuring, Zambia was going to pay $7.8 billion in 10 years but now, it would only pay $780 million within that same timeframe. “So, on a yearly basis, without debt restructuring, we were supposed to pay every year $780 million in 10 years, with debt restructuring, every year, we...

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