PAC president Andyford Banda has described the Afro Barometer report that has ranked Zambia as the best country in Africa in uplifting people’s lives in 2024 as fraudulent, adding that it is detached from reality. On Thursday, Information and Media Minister Cornelius Mweetwa said Zambia was ranked the best country in Africa at uplifting people’s lives in 2024. The Chief Government Spokesperson boasted that the country’s performance on the continental stage showed that government was putting the right policies and interventions in place. In an interview, Sunday, Banda said the excitement exhibited by Mweetwa to quote the report was meant to hoodwink Zambians. “When we say that the UPND does not understand its mandate this is what we mean, because...

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