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EIA says it is disheartened by President Edgar Lungu’s reaction to their report on Mukula Trees

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The Environmental Investigation Agency says it is disheartened by President Edgar Lungu’s reaction to their report which exposed how associates connected to him are reportedly involved in the plunder of mukula rosewood trees.

President Lungu has rubbished the report as fake News and the EIA says such statements calling into question thorough research and evidence drive away attention from the real problem which is the devastation of Zambia’s forests.

Lisa Handy the Senior Policy Adviser at the Environmental Investigation Agency says it is critical that this matter is investigated and addressed immediately.

Ms Handy says Zambia has one of the highest rates of the deforestation in the world and the trafficking of Mukula has a devastating effect on the lives of many Zambians and the forests and robes the country of natural resources benefiting a few connected individuals.

And Ms Handy has denied working with the opposition United Party for National Development in putting together the report as alleged by some stakeholders saying the EIA is a non partisan organisation.

She expressed hope that the issues raised in the report will help reinforce the voice of Zambians interested in saving the mukula specie.

But PF Media Director Sunday Chanda has insisted that the report on Mukula is bogus and politically engineered and based on hearsay, innuendos and with a predetermined political objective.

“We would have appreciated the EIA to give specific evidence directly linking the accused outside the realm of hearsay from illegal dealers who could easily be name dropping like any ‘tamanga’ does or indeed lower criminals in the food chain be victims of criminal middlemen falsely claiming to be representing higher leadership”, Mr Chanda has said.

He said the EIA person could not provide any evidence such as financial documents to directly link the persons mentioned in their report which confirms that the report is a sham and fake news.

“For avoidance of doubt, we wish to repeat that the EIA report is nonsensical, cheapest and childish propaganda by those paid to trigger regime change in Zambia. The report remains nothing but a total sham”, he added.

Mr Chanda said Zambians can see that the Opposition and their paymasters have jumped to making wild mukula allegations after realizing that their corruption allegations have run dry.

63 COMMENTS

  1. That’s why the Brazilian president chased these organisations away after the amazon fires. They bring confusion. How do you release such a report without hard evidence-actual people, bank accounts, transfers, etc????

    • You are trying to dupe the unread ……the EIA and other such sounded a similar warning about the Amazon only to be rubbished by the Brazil government, then fires broke out , true to the warnings of environmental organisations like the EIA. only now after the devastating fires have the Brazil government taken note of the investigations and warnings by those environmental groups lungu and his gang are trying to tarnish

    • The Environmental Investigation Agency isn’t a shadowy organisation without a traceable address. If it has soiled reputations of some people, there’s a remedy that can be sought. It’s not for me to praise the EIA or defend the GRZ. Both are powerful organisations that do not need my endorsement.

    • I told you guys that this is not a US government entity…just a group of broke morons…they have no physical address in Washington DC…..and the guy who prepared the report is Zambian….i dont like PF bandits but i can tell you the report is bogus… written by fake NGO….no offices,no phone numbers just a rented P.O box number…..

    • Mutinta should be wary of Lisa Handy.
      She is rumored to be gone after by h² in the most fashionable quid pro quo affair.
      H² should come clean on the matter in which he was seen flirting with Lisa.
      The world is small and dogged by cameras in most public facilities and in hotels.

    • @Zambian Citizen- we know how dull and ignorant you are. Last time you were justifying an Ambulance costing $300,000.
      If these serious allegations are fake why not sue them in US courts for defamation?

    • @1.4 Spaka
      You are based in the UK and you should know that we have alot of rogue organizations like this…i checked their website and they’re begging for donations….its a grounp of 4 to 5 individuals all with questionable backgrounds….try to visit their offices you will find out they operate from an apartment

    • But why doesn’t the PF sue the EIA for libel? Sue them for millions of dollars, and if you win, you’ll exonerate yourselves, and gain some respect in the process. Plus you’ll be rewarded with lots of cash and it’ll serve as a warning to other would be libellers. But you won’t do that, most likely because there may be some truth to these accusations. This is what happens when your main occupation is stealing the national resources to enrich yourselves. Even when you’ve not stolen, people think you have. So prove that you’re innocent. In the meantime, you thieves.

    • The PF gang are thieves capable of doing this. If they say they’re not, let them sue EIA. They’re a bunch of thieves, a criminal syndicate headed by the chief gangster, corrupt Lungu.

  2. Why doesn’t lungu and the GRZ Sue the EIA , the EIA are not some pseudo random cyber entity , they have offices and known directors and rich donor countries and individuals , better still why not sue the donors countries and individuals who’s money is used to produce that report. ?

    Lungu can’t sue jack sh.it, he is a thief . Period.

    • Only an Id!ot would believe $193m of mukula would be transported that easy knowing that a 23 tonne truck is only worth $43,000 average. Southern African countries don’t allow a single truck to carry more than that tonnage at a time on its road-I’ll let you do the arithmetic (or you prefer Lisa mentioned above to help you??)

    • Citizen

      I can tell you and so can anyone else with a brain not diluted in corruption such as yours that Zambia has lost 80 of its valuable wood trees , not for malasha but to the Chinese and that those depleted trees were not less than $300 million in monetary cash value. $300 million is a very conservative figure.

    • Just show us the workings. Break it down. You will realise that you are as f.0.0.l.ish as the people who wrote the report. $300m divide by $40k is 7,500 truckloads wechi puba we!!!

    • 7500 truck loads , ?

      Look at rat every body , trying desperately to dupe is.

      Let’s give him some reality , he says $300 million is 7500 trucks , ok how long has lungu been in power? Let’s say 6 years , 365 *6 = 2190 days

      That is only 4 Mukula trucks per day , we all saw how massive the PF foreign trucks were that tried to steal wild animals in eastern province were , so moving 4 to 5 Mukula trucks per day is nothing to lungu and his gang

    • VERY NICE ANALYSIS SPAKA. I HOPE CITIZEN GETS IT NOW THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT DULL AND BLIND. NO POLITICIAN WILL CHEAT HIS OR HER WAY TO STATE HOUSE NOW.

    • But the Chinese Ambassador has already told us how much worth of Mukula they imported in one single year. The figure he told us was 100 times bigger than what Lungu claims we exported.

      Where is the confusion here?

      Are you people that dull that you can not see that Lungu is stealing?

      Me shocked at how people can defend this looting.

    • By now you spaka and your confused bunch of illiterates should realise that Government does not react to pettiness like this EIA at all.
      Government is already aware about the maneuvers of ALN and now EIA and their agenda to create a narrative to counter h² boo boo in the sale of our mines in the 90s.
      This Mukula fabrication is a total hoax. A failed take down like many other upndead falsehoods created in the past.

    • @ 2.7 Thorn in the Flesh

      All credit rating agencies, IMF , amnesty international, UN……Every report by any of them is a fake or fabrication or a UPND/Hh attempt to cease power or a homo/western conspiracy……

      At first the lungus rats were blaming a brenhurst foundation for everything, now it’s the whole world and according to long fingers lungu , the whole west is now out to fix Zambia ??????

    • Credit ratings operatives don’t run economies. They are just like football commentators. I have seen football commentators literally stunned at the turn of events on the football pitch.
      I don’t believe you have all eggs of belief in one politic basket; to destroy national integrity.
      Credit ratings my foot.
      You immigrant koswes like it when the international community turn against a country. But seeing what’s here in the West, one can’t help but wonder why you keep fabricating stories to destroy your own beautiful country.
      In 2026 after ECL’s last tenure, I believe then without h², we will be celebrating a all new crop of leadership. We can’t destroy it now because h² and ECL are sworn enemies. No!

    • Negative spaka.
      The only thing I share with PF presently is the word that rhymes Patriotism.
      I am so in love with this country my dear – it’s land from the South to the North; West to the East. It’s potential, its peace relative to its neighbors.
      The untapped and unwrapped Natural Resources.
      What your leaders did in the 90s breaks my heart no wonder my heart skips at the sound of his name. That’s why simple go h² or double h. He is like a nightmare to our country, a heartless business goon. You stand their calling me corrupt for spelling it out to you in 3 dimensions.

    • Thorn, what patriotism has PF exhibited? taking a county backwards and you call that patriotism? failing to self govern or governing by depending on excessive borrowing and aid from the western countries is not a healthy or smart way of governing especially when loan defaults are impending. what is happening to pilato and laura or what happened to sean tembo isn’t patriotism at all, what you did to HH or mwaliteta isn’t patriotism at all. should people even stop talking so that the rot continues in this useless government? PF have ruled for almost 10 years, children who were 8,9 and 10 years have grown in very harsh conditions, seeing their parents lose jobs, businesses closed, fail to provide mealie meal for their homes, others have been chased from rented houses because their parents…

    • @Rowdy
      Past? Hehehehehe!
      Do you actually know what you’re talking about?
      Your mind needs to be tuned to reality.
      Change is the only constant thing left going in this world.
      You have lamented on a number of things but it matters what you feed your mind with. No politician will bail you out. Wake up to reality. Reality that you gotta work your @$$ out in this world. No politician will put food on your table.

  3. So what evidence does Amos want, which he is also going to deny no thief ever admits even when caught red-handed. Can Amos tell us the source of Tasila’s wealth, as well as her father’s wealth?. China confirmed and you don’t want them revealing more that’s information we’ll need to prosecute Lungu and his corrupt regime.

    • Amos?? Which Amos??? You can’t even put your lies in order now. Space running out for your lies, people don’t believe them anymore. Try and concentrate on telling people how upnd will improve their lives. Arresting PF is not a good campaign strategy, bane.

    • Hehehehehe

      Citizen

      The guy asked , can you tell us the source of Tasilas wealth ? And lungus $2 million after just 18 months in office, never mind his estimated now $ 100 million ?

    • Lungu is a Mukula thief, he can never agree the report, he know Zambians are useless and he will get away with this and many more theiving activities that he will do in the near future and he know Zambians will be arguing among themselves weather he actually stole or not in the mean time he is busy enjoying proceeds of crime

    • Unfortunately for you you don’t have to present evidence to Chanda. Evidence is proof presented to a council of litigators in a sessioned trial aimed at finding Chanda guilty. It has to be sufficient and undeniable. Otherwise he walks to freedom and you folks keep on calling the innocent by law guilty guilty guilty. Don’t you sound like blatant f00ls out’a ideas. Hogwash!

    • Respond firmly to who?
      Are you not just an 1d10t tired of your own fabrication?
      ECL mandate is make this thing, Zambia, a conducive atmosphere for your businesses and your stay. Not to literally put food on your table.
      ECL need not respond to this hogwash fabrication from h² foreign Imperials. Isn’t h² weak imwe?

    • Thorn ati

      “…..ECL mandate is make this thing, Zambia, a conducive atmosphere for your businesses…”

      Have you seen the latest exchange rates ??

      Hehehehehe….

      Not every one is in the bussiness of looting and corruption badala ………that is very conductive under lungu….

    • You and I are presently not in the country. But I have lived in the country more than you. As soon as my business is done here, I am heading back.
      In Zambia, you can venture in any business. If you have a business idea, jump right on it simply. Not every one is in business because you like they always want to feed from Government or work for Government. I changed my mind when one foreigner visisted our country and told me that we Zambians like looking for jobs instead of creating jobs. About the dollar, what are you doing personally to contribute to forex growth?

  4. Even without this report we knew that things weren’t okay with the conduct of the PF in respect of the mukula. They started in Western province where forests have been depleted. The poverty levels in Zambia a quite high, so when the PF injects its illegal money it shows. Sata got hooligans from markets and bus stations and gave them leadership positions. We can tell just by looking at their attire if they’re stealing. Some have become grand donors when not long ago they were scrounging in bus stations. They’ve a handful of concubines whom they lavish. They fly first class, from where have they gotten the money? Corruption really blinds

    • Prove it
      Hehehehehehe! cough cough cough!
      LMBO!
      a) When a common citizen like h² suspect corruption is Government, what must he do?
      b) When a fake international news hoax generator operative like African Confidential, or Moody or EIA fabricates fake news items about your dear loving and loved country, what are you supposed to do as a citizen?
      Upndead naivity is appallingly incredible mwe.

  5. Today’s organizations use the people involved in the scam, including infiltrating. Don’t play around like this. Al Jazeera is also not too far away. Muza muziwa yesu a mambala.

  6. Ba Sunday Bank Transaction and Accounts are held in confidence for Customers BUT CAN HE RELEASED AT THE APPROPRIATE WITH CORRESPONDING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS! Wait till other nternational investigation organs get involved and obtain court orders to freeze and publicise some of these transactions.You will see records showing clearly.It is a question of time,YOU WILL BE QUIETENED. IN DUE COURSE!

    • Kikikikikikijukija.
      Like we have evidently unequivocally learned about h² evil dealing in the ICIJ report and the Panama papers.
      H²’s face undeniably printed all over panama paper’s database.
      Not this fake EIA proofless claim or allegation.
      But you can’t compare the ICIJ to the EIA.

    • See you can’t figure out how corrupt your tax evading goon is all about.
      Thanks for conceding.
      Meet at at the 2021 compaign period, we are charging to go tell it on the mountain with more detail.

    • Reform it. Thats the only hope. Petition all your dead walkaway Mps to push for the reformation of the ACC.
      Don’t just sit there are and allegy that the ACC has no spine.
      Just how s.i.l.l.y does your statement sound?

    • Why do you make noise then.
      You forget that it is the same ECZ that will run 2021 polls.
      Same judiciary to handle your petitions.
      Same ACC to look at what you claim as corruption.
      Same police to arrest your erring @$$3$.
      In short you have no narrative.
      And you wonder why I call you dead. Extremely impotent.

    • To you even parliament is nonfunctional. No wonder we have walkout bunch of evils.
      That’s why I call foote an hypocrite too.

  7. Don’t be disheartened. Lungu just doesn’t care about anything except what fills his selfish motives. It’s not the first damaging report against and it definitely won’t be the last. So keep digging because prosperity will have its day.

    • Just count your blessings nigga for being Zambian and not eastern DRC citizen or Somalian or South Sudan for crying out loud.
      Fact that you didn’t vote for EL and your preferred candidate flopped badly should be not used as a tool and motivation to discredit our own iwe. Are you not ashamed?

    • Thorn…

      Tell us now lungu got $2 million in personal account after 18 months in office despite earning less than $100k pa ?????

    • Those are allegations.

      But who should put those allegations to test?

      Oh! I forgot. You don’t have the means.
      You opperate like empty tins.
      No direction.

    • It is lungu and his gang of close accociates and his daughter has joined the looting….

      If this is not true , let the lungus sue , kaili ???

    • Kikikikikikijukija!

      Sue where?
      I thought you sounded like you don’t trust our Zambian systems of Governance.

      You are so defeated!

      Your EIA hogwash is henceforth debunked too!
      Full of falsehood.

  8. Kikikikikikijukija!

    Dismissed with costs.

    EIA is like Cambridge Analytica.
    What?
    Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm which combined misappropriation of digital assets, data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication during the electoral processes.

  9. This Sunday Chanda will never stop amazing me. Is he government or party spokesman? It seems he can’t differentiate issues he is supposed to comment on. These are the guys who are hurrying pf. Like KZ he doesn’t know his terms of reference.

  10. Classic.
    Anything that exposes the complete corruption in our homeland is “The West” trying to bring an honest African down, and yet all any of our ‘leaders’ want to do is be like the western powers they insult. Drive western cars. Wear western suits. Eat western foods. Fly western private jets bought with Zambian money. Hide Zambian money in western bank accounts.
    How Patriotic.

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