INFRASTRUCTURE and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi has wondered how Edgar Lungu is financing the opposition. The former president is leading both the United Kwacha Alliance and a faction of the Patriotic Front. Commenting on Lungu’s political activities in an interview, Monday, Milupi said government would investigate the source of his money. “The thing I want to commend him for is the acceptance in his speech that they were a terrible government in terms of what they did to the opposition. He (Lungu) has accepted it in terms of violence that he has talked about. In terms of restricting democratic space in your statement that you have just said. If we add on to that the way he [governed] the...

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