By Nelson Zulu

VICE-PRESICENT Mutale Nalumango has urged Zambians to brace themselves for more fuel price hike in the country.

Nalumango says the UPND government has no control at all on the fuel hike as the international market dictates the pricing of the commodity.

She said this, Friday, during the Vice President question time in parliament.

“But you are saying that the prices are going up, when fuel goes up it affect other commodities, and I have explained through ERB that the increase in fuel prices is beyond our control, but there is also a good general performance of the economy by people who do business, sometimes we want to cash in, so we need some consistence. Somethings take a bit of time, and we know that the indicators we are seeing are just point at the good times that are coming and they are coming, we should brace ourselves for hiked fuel prices because it is not under our control,” she said.

Vice-President Nalumango has also assured the people of Zambia that all the promises made by the UPND while in the opposition will be fulfilled.

She said there was no way her government would apologize for the 30 000 recruitment of teachers, 11 000 recruitment of health workers, free education and other promises it made while in the opposition and have now come to pass.

“We are nine months in office and you have seen some of the promises being fulfilled, we didn’t promise that everything will be done at once, but surely there is stability in the economy even in the pricing, you are talking about the Presidential Jet, wait nobody comes and just say let it go, just wait and see. Whatever we promised shall come to pass. The promises shall be fulfilled and apologize for what? We should apologize for free education, we should apologize for decentralization, we should apologize for increasing CDF, we should apologize for recruiting 30 000 teachers, we should apologize for recruiting 11 000 health workers? All these things need money and we have managed in just 9 months, Zambians should not listen to some friends who pretend as if they have a way out,” said Vice President Nalumango.

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