UPND Alliance Chairperson, Charles Milupi, says the strategic maize reserves had to be exported at a good price because the country lacks storage capacity to hold grain. And commenting on former president Edgar Lungu’s claim that had he still been in power today, the price of mealie meal would be much lower, Milupi said Lungu was in power for seven years but the PF administration did nothing to improve the food storage capacity. Meanwhile, responding to Lungu’s comment that President Hakainde Hichilema shouldn’t use the Bible to starve Zambians, Milupi said the President understood the Bible more than Lungu. “First of all, the President knows the meaning of the Bible more than he (Lungu) does. The President has always been...

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