DISPUTING the reports that UPND is vote-buying using mealie meal in Chawama, Lusaka Province UPND Chairman Obvious Mwaliteta says the party is only providing mealie-meal to its foot soldiers in the constituency who are assisting with the campaign. He insists that the party is giving mealie-meal to its foot soldiers so that they should be cooking as they go to campaign, saying they lack food when their leave their homes in the morning to go out for campaigns. We listen to this explanation about mealie-meal for “foot soldiers” and cannot help but shake our heads. One needs very little sense, if a little is all they can afford, to figure out that this is electoral malpractice. If this is not...
