SOME prominent Easterners have formed a grouping aimed at fighting perceived marginalisation of their region by the UPND government. According to an interim committee seen by News Diggers, Muhabi Lungu is chairing the movement while LAZ president Lungisani Zulu is deputising him. Zulu, however, says he is not aware of anything because he was “just added to the group”. Movement’s publicity secretary Chanoda Ngwira says the group is not political and is targeted at fostering development in the province. According to sources close to the movement, their grievances are that people from Eastern Province had been reduced to spectators. “This group is influenced or informed by the realisation that as things stand now, our province, and easterners have been reduced...

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