RENOWNED engineer Professor Clive Chirwa says it is mind-boggling for President Hakainde Hichilema to beg Toyota to come to Zambia when he can’t give opportunities to local firms like AUVIV. In his recent visit to Japan, President Hichilema urged Toyota Motors Corporation to establish a parts manufacturing plant in Zambia. In an interview, Prof Chirwa, who is also AUVIV proprietor, lamented that successive governments had not responded to his request to bring the manufacturing of AUVIV vehicles from China to Zambia which can result in job creation and poverty alleviation. “The wasteful nature and attitude of any African political administration is so corrosive that its people find it very difficult to brush off the rust and prepare for a brighter...