Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:50:16 +0000 DISGRANTLED politicians who were disparaging the Presidential Empowerment Initiative Fund (PEIF) before the 2016 elections will soon be ashamed when the programme continues to churn out good products, National Marketeers and Traders Association of Zambia (NATMAZ) general secretary Mwila Mufonka has said. And fund manager Joseph Chilinda has said the fund was re-designing the empowerment product in order to reach maximum optimisation of the empowerment project. Mr Mufonka said critics of President Edgar Lungu and those who thought the PEIF was a campaign tool for the Patriotic Front (PF) would soon be proved wrong when the initiative continues to empower people in various ways. Mr Mufonka said in an interview in Kitwe yesterday that marketeers were grateful that President Lungu had come up with such an initiative to empower them, including vendors and even people with disabilities. “The PEIF initiative is a genuine programme meant for the poor marketers […]
