AS President Hakainde Hichilema conducted visits to several areas in Lusaka to commemorate UPND’s two years in office, several residents lifted up small packs of mealie meal and cooking oil in protest of the high cost of living. Commenting on this in an interview, State House Chief Communications Specialist Clayson Hamasaka said such scenes were an indication that there was now freedom in Zambia. “That is good. Don’t you feel good as well seeing citizens freely doing such things? Do you think anyone would have done that in the previous regime? Where the Head of State is, you want to attempt to boo him? Do you think anyone would have done that in the previous arrangement? Don’t you feel good?...

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