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Bank Statement showing President Lungu’s expenditure in New York is doctored

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Mr Amos Chanda
Mr Amos Chanda

Cabinet has opened an administrative inquiry to trace the source of a doctored bank statement which was published by the News Diggers newspaper on President Edgar Lungu’s expenditure during his recent trip to New York.

State House Press Aide Amos Chanda says the information which was published by the tabloid on March 14, 2018 included false activities of which the President never undertook during his working visit.

Mr. Chanda explains that the publication obtained the false information from a bank statement which was illegally obtained and doctored on the alleged extravagant expenditure during the trip.

He clarified that the Head of State never undertook any boat cruises and did not have a dinner dance among other malicious activities.

Mr. Chanda said this during a media briefing at state house.

Meanwhile Mr. Chanda has called on the media to factually verify their data before publishing stories with questionable information.

60 COMMENTS

    • Is ACC going to summon State House or they will wait after they join NDC?
      Freedom Sikazwe is enjoying freedom now with Edgar.
      Muli nkulungwe, namuno Chalo tamwakekalemo.

    • Really laughable…what a response typical of this useless arrogant boy..doctor how? What you comparing it with? Is there a difference in the figure by $100,000.
      Meanwhile OP is working around the clock to find out how it was leaked…

    • Luara Miti was right, Lungu better fire this Amos…Emmanuel may just manage to resurrect dwindling fortunes for Edgar

    • After watching the news clip of Amos even a 3 year child could tell that he was telling porkies from the way he was touching his fingers!!

    • Uubomba mwibala alya mwibala..there you have it. I have it so many times Lungu is a thief together with all his ministers

    • this was published on ZWD in 2015:

      wwwDOTzambiawatchdogDOTcom/here-is-bank-account-lungu-used-to-fund-dancers-in-new-york/

    • Swaka Proverb: “He who brings the ant-infested firewood in his home, musn’t complain when the lizards pays him a vist“.

      PF00Ls brought this man into our reserves even though you knew he had a past of theft from a Lafarge widow (K36-million then).

      You chose to ignore the warning signs, so you shouldn’t complain when he steals from you. In fact you need to congratulate him & continue dancing Dununa Reverse

    • It’s disgraceful, Amos on a video was not even confident, looking down like Adulterers (Bamu Gwila Uchende) busy fidgeting with his stupid fingers because it is the truth. Lungu is the most playful and careless President Zambia even has seen. Childish.

    • Guy Scott knew what he was trying to save you from …. but Alas! Umu African danced all the way in reverse to the polling station only to bring in these bandits and Vandals of state vaults

  1. “Bank Statement showing President Lungu’s expenditure in New York is doctored-State House Press Aide Amos Chanda”. It may be. Perhaps it is, but Amos Chanda or his boss needs to publish the “correct” one because ECL’s expenditures are not private information. It is public information that needs to be publicly consumed by those who labour to pay his extravagant sometimes un-called for trips. But the precedent stinks, though. If in 2015 he had net worth of K2 million in 2015 to over K27 million in 2016 (one year)–which ECL has not or has remained unexplained, how can the public accept as authentic the “undoctored” statement which ECL will not produce? ECL and his PF and paid spokespeople can fool some Zambians all the time, but will never fool all Zambians all the time. Zambians…

  2. Amos, is the News Diggers story is incorrect feel free to release the true record.

    What is undisputed is that ECL has spend a lot of Zambian taxpayer money on reckless travel. Meanwhile, children have no chalkboard and people have no Medicine.

    Lost priorities in my Zambia.

    • When they contacted him he stated that he will have to study the document …surely what do you need to study simply look at the closing balance and say no this is not ours…but coming back and stating its doctored is laughable and amateurish.

    • Well said @standard. My thoughts exactly. What amuses me is in the age of the Internet and instantaneous consumption politicians are still in the 18th Century in their approaches. Amazing! We do need fresh politics after all.

  3. There is nothing false about it. They have been caught and now trying to downplay the expenditures. Greed is as greed does.

    • This is what happens when spend money when you are drunk and legless..you do not even recognise you purchases at first glance.

  4. Looking for a source of the leakage instead of looking for the criminals stealing our hard earned money on their stupid holidays? Is it not only dogs that use this kind of instinct?

  5. Amos Chanda is a barking dog and he has to do this type of stuff just for his owners to feel he’s important.

    Lungu’s frequent jet travels makes the New York expenditures look tame in comparison.

  6. This is truly unbelievable of such a President. Lungu really can’t see what is happening in Zambia? Zambia is in a crisis of leadership and you have a leader trotting unnecessarily. Mr. President, the ship is sinking and you know that, deep down your heart you know Zambia is being ruined as we speak.

    • Zambia has become a very big circus. These Politicians have just become like clowns.Ever since Sata died, PF has been a disaster. If PF wins in 2021 with Lungu as president,then I will conclude that we are cursed.

  7. There is no water in matero,lilanda,chungu n lilanda estate.what’s wrong with chi Mp in matero.kwena PF u gonna cry.cholera now everywhere due to lack of water.Lungu please wake up lusaka watwr n sewerage is useless plus tue matero mp.abantu balafwa

    • Lazy Lungu is too weak and is a coward to defend himself even an issue like this one relating to expenditure on his trips he sends Amos…

  8. Please take some time to reflect, I beg you. You need to start solving issues of corruption, killings happening in Zambia, poverty, stealing by your ministers, lawlessness, etc! Recently instead of sending a representative to represent you to assess progress on the construction of the Kazungula Bridge that will connect eight SADC countries, you took the trip. You don’t need to be flying aimlessly sir, your trips cost our beloved country colossal sums of money, tax payer’s money!

  9. Lusaka times…
    Really? Amos said it is ‘possibly doctored’. But your headline just says it is doctored. And you state it as if it’s a fact, when Amos clearly failed to prove that it was fake.
    Be professional guys.

    • let them produce their statement on that date. The guys who published that news are proffessional and are not like Zambian Researchers. They are ready to be sued if Amos wants the truth but as usual he runs to the media to sweep dirty under the carpet.

  10. Let’s be honest. Even those that support EL. Is this ok in your site. for someone to be spendinbg money like this while others can’t even afford a meal?

    • Are you sure about Victor/Sharon…even if he was caught redhanded in BOZ vault stealing on CCTV Sharon would still support the lazy thing!!

  11. Ali kuti uyu Cadre Kokolilo -B.R Mumba?
    Where is he to update us on his Thieving delusional Zambian Enterprise??
    Fake “Unipist” who supports Jona’s bu Kabwalala, coz hes eating from these scams the Mbuzi.

  12. Will the fake “Unipist” P.F. Cadre B.R. Mumba please stand up, & defend his Fake Delusional thieving Zambian enterprise!!
    This P.F cadre Mumba will shout “Lets Roll” to any P.F, cr@p, coz he benefits from this thieving, whilst Hospitals lack drugs, & Schools have no desks, + Teachers go unpaid, this dishonet bilimankhwe -(Chameleon)!

  13. “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. saying. This means that you should not criticize other people for bad qualities in their character that you have yourself.”

  14. Im sorry to say this but these govt critics who embark on wreckless witch hunting, forever engaging in abrasive insults of government leadership, yapping and yapping without substance are on a deathwish mission that if it comes to fruitation will be ominously catastrophic for generations to come. Offer your contributions sensibly until our ship is sailing flawlessly. Resent disharmony please.l know.

  15. Witnessing Lungu’s visionless presidency roll on so spectacularly provokes a perverse joy. The venality is so baroque, the vulgarity so ostentatious, the inconsistencies so stark, the incompetence so epic & the lies so brazen, it leaves you speechless. Koswe’s vanity is surely without guile!

  16. Yes the President is the number one public figure in this country. So whatever he does with public resources should be well documented and in public domain.So state house take legal action against new diggers newspaper and as others have suggested, and produce ‘genuine expenditure’ for the President while in New York.

  17. No wonder IMF don’t want to give these guys money, they don’t know lenders carry out their own investigations. It is easy to see ECL’s recklessness looking at the number of trips. 55 trips is well too much and if you calculate jet fuel, travel allowances, accommodation, shopping and food we looking at millions of dollars all wasted on unfruitful trips taking money away from vital issues like health, education and more. Amos can’t even deny, ECL needs to stop it all these cadres he is showering with stolen money are going to desert him and they will be the ones testifying against him

  18. Chanda you said some items where correct while others needed verification, have you already finished the verification in one night, are you an auditor, do you have an accounting back ground even with a yes answer to my questions, you can not conclusively very such a document in one night my friend. so in conclusion you are just trying to damage control but on this one you can’t.

  19. This is a joker of a president with misplaced priorities! He robbing this nation blind. The unfortunate part is that he is doing while all the good people of this country are watching! If this does not warrant impeachment, then what will? The country is worse off for having this thoughtless “happy – go – lucky” in State House. It is being whispered that his marriage is on the rocks; how can he manage a nation if he can’t manage issues on the home front??

  20. A Bank Statement? Did the Bank release the Bank Statment or it is those from In’gombe Ilede (I-lady) who produced this paper? They never voted for the president and they tell their kin never to vote for him but when governments wants to constitute cabinet and other leaders they cry “You are tribal, you did not include us!” Include them and see that they feed Galu Watchers in Zambia with fake news.

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