KAMFINSA PF member of parliament Christopher Kang’ombe says some businesses will not survive the effects of drought if government doesn’t offer them a stimulus package. On Monday, President Hakainde Hichilema said he had been scanning the country and observing people’s behaviour to see how they were responding to drought. But in an interview, Tuesday, Kang’ombe said government had not correctly responded to drought. “First of all, Zambia has not responded correctly to the challenge we have. And I will explain why I feel the government has not responded correctly. If you remember the 2008 global recession in America, one of the things the American government did was to come up with what is called a stimulus package, where you simply...

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