By SIMON MUNTEMBAAN opposition scheme to discredit and derail the national registration card (NRC) issuance exercise by fabricating emotive fake stories has been exposed.Home Affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo told the Daily Nation in an exclusive interview that UPND had hatched a scheme to discredit the national card registration process by disseminating a staged picture of under age children holding their supposed NRC cards.Mr Kampyongo, who revealed that the registration exercise has been extended, also rubbished claims by UPND Mazabuka MP, Gary Nkombo that foreigners were being issued with NRCs.The issuance of NRCs has been extended by 10 more days to allow officers capture more people.In the plot hatched to discredit the national exercise, Mr Kampyongo said the opposition UPND had gone to great lengths to discredit a process meant to capture eligible citizens in the national data base. He said it was said that children were being used for political gain. The minister was referring […]
UPND plot laid bare
