YOUTH, Sports and Arts Minister Elvis Nkandu says government has only managed to recover about three to four percent of the K270 million the PF gave out as youth empowerment. Nkandu, however, says government will use other avenues to recover the money if those who got empowerment loans do not pay back by the end of this year. Meanwhile, Nkandu says his ministry has not abandoned the fuel tankers but just keeping them in Makeni. Speaking when he featured on Hot FM’s “Hot Seat” programme, Thursday, Nkandu lamented that the rate at which the youths who got empowerment funds were repaying the loans was worrying. “There are many people in Zambia today who are complaining that maybe government to some...

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