INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Zambia Eric Lautier has refuted claims that the institution is pressuring IDC to offload some of its assets. Lautier observes that there’s too much politics in economic discourse at the moment. On Wednesday, PF faction president Miles Sampa alleged that IDC was facing pressure from IMF and that’s why it was offloading assets and being instructed to remove President Hakainde Hichilema from serving as board chairperson. But reacting to Sampa’s allegation in an interview, Thursday, Lautier observed that the current economic debate in the country was devoid of facts. “There is no enough fact in the economic debate at the moment. It’s very unfortunate though. It’s not actually true, we haven’t told anything...
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