FORMER Commerce minister Bob Sichinga says the country doesn’t need foreign entities to come and invest in the mines, arguing that ZCCM-IH can also borrow funds to be able to do that. Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe, recently, said the government had laid down some conditions to Vedanta which it had to follow if the parties were to progress on any negotiations regarding KCM. In an interview, Sichinga described the happenings in the mining sector as the biggest betrayal of the Zambian people. “What is happening around the mining sector is the biggest betrayal of the people of Zambia, the biggest betrayal. And I’m asking myself, what did these people think, that we are so stupid, we don’t understand what goes...

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