Amos Chanda says Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has gone on short vacation


Devdiscourse News Desk | Lusaka | Updated: 01-12-2018 13:43 IST | Created: 01-12-2018 13:42 IST
Amos Chanda says Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has gone on short vacation
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Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu didn’t sneak out of the country as insinuated by National Democratic Congress Consultant Chishimba Kambwili.

Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has disclosed that the President Edgar Lungu has gone on a short vacation in the Luangwa Valley in Eastern Province and not in South Africa.

Amos Chanda said the President will only return after he takes a short break adding that his vacation was not revealed to the nation in order to keep people away from him, as reported by Lusaka Times. Speaking when he featured on the Breakfast show on Hot FM this morning, Chanda said the purpose of keeping President Lungu from State House was to reduce the amount of work going to him.

And on the relationship between the Head of State and Businessman Valden Findlay, he said the duo have a personal relationship that does not cost anything. According to him, Findlay has never been on any foreign trip on Presidential delegation further describing Kambwili’s allegations that Findlay has always been with the President as unfounded.

“If Findlay wants to travel, he has a bigger plane than the Presidential challenger and if he wants to visit the President as a friend he is free to do so, those allegations are unfounded. He is not a convicted criminal, he returned from England recently and is one of the businessmen funding the PF”, he added.

NDC Consultant Chishimba Kambwili who is also PF Roan PF Member of Parliament charged at a media briefing earlier this week that President Lungu had sneaked out of the country for South Africa without the government telling the nation his whereabouts.

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