CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa’s statement that government cannot afford to introduce subsidies because of some debt restructuring conditionalities can’t pass without comment. The minister says Zambia’s creditors would view it as a luxury if his government introduced subsidies on fuel and mealie meal. Cornelius MWEETWA: “Because of this debt situation we have, even if some people have been proposing that government should put in place measures to mitigate or cushion the home economics of its citizens, it becomes an impossibility. Some people are talking about subsidising mealie meal, fuel etc, the debt situation puts us in a precarious position because some of the conditionalities to attainment of debt restructuring are exactly preventing those same issues. We’ve had a huge...