LAST Friday, Vice-President Mutale Nalumango featured on a CNN programme where she stressed the need for increased transparency in the process of debt contraction. Her Honour said it becomes difficult for citizens to appreciate what the country owed if the debt contraction process was done secretively. Mutale NALUMANGO: “Democracy calls for accountability and transparency. I think that I would encourage that there is greater transparency in the manner debt is contracted. Transparency to the public, to the citizens who are the owners of the resources that we are committing in the contracting of the debt. So what I would say is for us to move forward and not to look to and from, back and forth, it is important that...

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