Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:58:58 +0000 IMF denial has left the UPND flat on its face Dear Editor, The UPND-biased social media’s insinuations and allegations that President Edgar Lungu bribed the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s mission team leader to Zambia, Tsidi Tsikata, as a way of improving Zambia’s chances of getting the mission’s home-grown bailout package were bound to fail. The question was when would they fail and who would be embarrassed? As fate would have it, the IMF Communications Director Garry Rice provided the answers in good time by describing such insinuations and allegations of being outrageous and rubbish (“IMF rubbishes bribe claims”, Daily Nation, June 24, 2017). Two months to Zambia’s next IMF bailout package in September 2017, the UPND and its surrogate one-man political parties, alarmed that the PF government was earmarked and well positioned for a home-grown bailout package believed to be in the region of US$1.3 billion, started talking ill […]
