FORMER president Edgar Lungu says criticising citizens for having big families is a sign of government’s failure and poor leadership. In a recent interview, Community Development and Social Service minister Doreen Mwamba urged unemployed and vulnerable couples to stop having so many children and putting unnecessary stress on the government. “You know, in life kwaliba ukuipima (you have to gauge yourself in life); I am not working, my husband is not working, God has blessed us with two children, he blesses us with a third one, he blesses us with a fourth one, and you still want to go on? When you are failing to feed two children, you still want to go on and have four, five, six children,...

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