ACTIONAID Zambia Country Director Faides Tembatemba has reminded the UPND government of their promise to fight corruption, saying they are in office because citizens trusted they would end the vice. On Friday, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango told the National Assembly that the increase in suspicious transactions disseminated by the Financial Intelligence Centre did not mean UPND was corrupt because there were certain factors like inflation at play. She said the value of suspicious transactions was so high because the purchasing power of money had decreased over time. In an interview, Saturday, Tembatemba said what was important was for government to explain the interventions they would implement to ensure no figures appeared in the FIC report. “They promised that they are going...

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