ARE SOME UPND CAMPAIGN PROMISES MADE TO BE BROKEN?By MUBANGA LUCHEMBE SPEAKING during one of Vice-President’s parliamentary question times, Ms Mutale Nalumango responded that the debt-swap for civil servants had been suspended to allow the newly-elected government to assess the programme. She added that, the debt-swap initiative was implemented towards the PF administration’s end and that the financial institutions involved didn’t seem to be ready for such government-initiated programmes. Ms Nalumango also explained that the debt-swap was not well-articulated and that the UPND administration was relooking at this programme to assess whether it could be implemented.Yet, civil servants are not holding their breath as an election year anywhere in the world is usually a year when the government is supposed to be compassionate to the electorate. With various players wanting to grab power and rule, appeasing the ordinary people tends to be at the heart of the sitting government’s initiatives. Not so in Zambia, it appears, whereby the just-been-elected […]
ARE SOME UPND CAMPAIGN PROMISES MADE TO BE BROKEN?
