CITIZENS First president Harry Kalaba has taken off on a campaign trail, and he is gearing up for the 2026 general elections with some imaginative, or rather unrealistic, promises. On Monday, Mr Kalaba featured on a radio programme in Mbala, where he vowed to pay rural hardship allowance to servants which is equivalent to their basic pay. But that was just a warm-up promise. Mr Kalaba also vowed to introduce debt swaps for civil servants so that they can borrow money from banks and other lending institutions with impunity, without actually paying them back, because, he says, his government will take care of it. He also promised that under his leadership, the National Pensions Scheme Authority would change policy to...