Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:30:39 +0000 By SIMON MUNTEMBA THERE is need to compensate vendors following the cholera epidemic that saw them ousted from the central business district, the Movement for National Transformation (MNT) has demanded. MNT leader Daniel Shimunza said the best way to empower ordinary citizens for economic participation and for equitable market economic benefits was through compensation. “We need a limited nationalisation and modernisation policy to empower Zambians for economic participation… including vendors and the general private sector in both accessibility, facilities, land policy, and investments by promoting Zambians first, not foreigners,” Mr Shimunza said. He added: “We must reform our capitalist private enterprise economy to curb inequalities, poverty, and unemployment, and stop a foreign driven macro-economic policy direction, which is outward looking… “We must respect and recraft the Presidency, as a Constitutional office, for advanced competencies of a mature transformative leadership, not transactional crisis management. We must also modernize and upgrade […]
