VETERAN politician Vernon Mwaanga has advised election observers against rushing to certify the August polls as free and fair before they put all the facts together. And Mwaanga has urged civil servants to analyse the debt swap initiative, stating that it can end up being a debt trap. Speaking when he featured on HOT FM’s Beyond the Headlines programme, Wednesday, Mwaanga said rushing to declare the elections as free and fair could cause an embarrassment when it is later discovered that there were irregularities in the elections. “I have been an election observer for quite a number of African countries and the role of the observer mission in my view requires to be redefined. They should not be in a...