INFRASTRUCTURE, Housing and Urban Development Minister Charles Milupi says government will institute an audit in order to ascertain the real cost of the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA). Recently, former housing and infrastructure minister Ronald Chitotela said MMD leader Nevers Mumba’s suggestion that KKIA must be audited did not make sense because it had never been cited for irregularity in any audit which had ever been carried out. Commenting on Chitotela’s remarks in an interview, Wednesday, Milupi said an audit was in good interest of the nation as government was concerned about the cost of the airport. “Of course [there’ll be an audit], we want to ascertain the cost of that building. When the President speaks, that is policy. That...

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