IF someone approached you as a citizen of Zambia and asked you what you understand about the country’s debt situation and the solution that the UPND government has put in place, what would be your answer? The debt that Zambia has is not a UPND problem, that’s a given. It was inherited from the Patriotic Front regime. But the truth is that the party in power was voted for to precisely attend to this challenge, among other economic problems. The question is; have they laid out a clear debt dismantling plan outside their negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package which is only meant for balance of payment support? We are asking this on the backdrop of...

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