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Government’s fuel guzzlers

On Thursday, President Lazarus Chakwera announced a 50 percent fuel allocation cut for top government officials among a raft of expenditure control measures. Our calculations suggest that fuel allocation in government is, indeed, one big siphon of taxpayers’ money from the public purse. What is not clear thus far, however, is whether, at current fuel […]

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