Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:02:59 +0000 IT WAS that enigmatic French revolution leader Napoleon Bonaparte who invented the famous quotable quote, ‘‘In politics, stupidity is not a handicap’’. And looking at the way the present political situation in Zambia is developing, he was not very far from the truth. As we speak Zambia is under siege. The doom-sayers are turning the screw, using the outrageous social media and some sections of the church to portray Zambia as a country in a crisis, a State on the brink of anarchy. They even have the audacity to manufacture a monstrous lie that President Lungu bribed the International Monetary Fund mission leader to Zambia Tsidi Tsikata as a way of improving Zambia’s chances of getting a bailout from the multilateral organisation. It had to take the IMF communication director Gerry Rice in Washington to come to the defence of the Zambian government, describing the allegation as outrageous and […]
