Budget Must Target The Bottom, Not Burden The Poor With Taxes - UOM

by Pauline Ngozoh

The United Orange Movement (UOM) says it has received the 2027 National Budget with mixed feelings.

In a statement, Party President Musa Kafimbwa says his party is here to provide checks and balances, and to support Government where it is doing right, because teamwork is the only way to develop Zambia.

Mr. Kafimbwa says the Budget must target the bottom. He says the bottom are the common Zambian people - the vulnerable majority - and the Budget must be favourable and considerate to them. He warns that if the people at the bottom are subjected to so many taxes, then it is as good as not being considerate to the very people Government governs.

On agriculture, Mr. Kafimbwa says peasant farmers, who contribute massively to the national food basket through programmes like FISP, were supposed to