EASTERN Province Minister Peter Phiri has refuted Kasenengwa PF member of parliament Philimon Twasa’s claims that relief food in his hunger-stricken constituency is being given to only UPND cadres. Recently, Twasa asked government to thoroughly investigate how the distribution of relief food was being done, alleging that only UPND cadres were being considered. But commenting on that in an interview, Thursday, Phiri described the allegations as unfounded. “Those are mongers, we don’t want to play to the gallery. These are absolute lies, this is a government that has brought people together unlike in the previous government when people were treated [according] to their party affiliation. The new dawn government has come to unite the people, we speak one language as...

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