UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda says former president Edgar Lungu and his friends in the United Kwacha Alliance are manipulating the narrative that debt restructuring will not benefit Zambians. In a statement, Saturday, Imenda stated that the opposition was trying to misinform the nation on debt restructuring. “The opposition political parties are deliberately trying to misinform citizens by twisting the narrative about Zambia’s debt restructuring, earlier agreed with Official Creditors and the Bondholders. Visionary President Hakainde Hichilema and his administration did not ask for debt forgiveness because they know they can pay back the PF acquired debt given an enabling fiscal space. Therefore, it’s a fact that debt restructuring is not debt forgiveness as the doomsayers are trying to mislead...

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