LUNTE PF member of parliament Mutotwe Kafwaya has questioned how the country’s GDP grew to 4 percent in 2024, given the various economic challenges. Last Thursday, Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane said the UPND should be trusted 100 percent because they were like doctors who came and found someone sick and had to administer injections, and the wound is healing. Dr Musokotwane was reacting to revelations by ZAMSTATS acting Statistician General Sheila Mudenda that the preliminary GDP estimates showed the economy grew by four percent in 2024. Commenting on the matter in an interview, Monday, Kafwaya argued that the “injections” administered were full of irregularities. “But the injection that his government has put into the Zambian people,...
