GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Stafford Mulusa says the mushrooming of political parties entails that democracy is now thriving in the country. And Mulusa says government knew that the Umodzi Kum’mawa movement was a political party in the making. On Friday, Zambia’s former ambassador to Congo Muhabi Lungu announced that he would soon form a political party. But commenting on this in an interview, Mulusa said the formation of new political parties did not entail any weaknesses in governance. “I think that democracy is now thriving and people are free now to form their political parties, people have freedom of speech, of movement. So those are some of the things that happen in a democratic leadership. People are free to do what...