PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says Zambia is willing to work with other countries to purchase oil and fertiliser as a consortium in order to negotiate better. Speaking during a State dinner which his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, hosted in his honour on Wednesday, President Hichilema said government was looking at solutions aimed at lowering the cost of fertiliser and oil. “With our economic restructuring programme, two things are bothering us; the cost of fuel, the cost of fertiliser. If we put our heads together, for example, we were discussing with him, the two of us, I said ‘President I hear you are mooting an idea to consortium purchase of fuel so that we can negotiate better’, everything is negotiable, we all...

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