UPND secretary general Batuke Imenda has denied suggestions that the gains recorded in the Kwacha have artificially been created in order for UPND to hoodwink voters in the looming Kwacha and Kabushi by-elections. In an interview, Imenda attributed gains in the local currency to the recently held AU Summit, saying the “delegates brought in a lot of dollars in the economy”. “Number one, economics is a noble discipline, it requires someone to go through five years of study to understand economics so when you get comments from people who don’t have the slightest idea of what economics is, then you do not blame them for coming up with such conclusions. Secondly, if you saw what happened in economics, simple terms...

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