GEARS Initiative Zambia Programmes Officer Gideon Musonda has urged the new dawn government to listen to the people who are condemning acts which pose a threat to the country’s democracy. Several stakeholders, including Catholic bishops, have condemned what they term as the shrinking democratic space under the new Dawn government. In an interview, Thursday, Musonda observed that previous governments had been voted out of office because they stopped listening to the people at some point. “UPND started very well immediately they won the elections such that they were even consistent in terms of their pronouncements in trying to address things that went wrong under PF. Now what we are seeing is that we are going back to the level where...

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