INFRASTRUCTURE and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says those claiming that UPND won’t match the PF’s level of infrastructure development don’t understand the economy the Edgar Lungu led government left. Asked in an interview, Friday, about concerns that the UPND was doing little with regards to infrastructure development, Milupi said the PF left an economy with negative growth. “There are two things they don’t understand – the first one is they don’t understand the economy we inherited, very low economy with negative growth. In fact, it was -2.8 which meant that we can’t have our own money and we can’t raise taxes. And also adding to that they left us with huge debt which we can’t go and borrow and...

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