FORMER special assistant to the president for press and public relations Amos Chanda says his job as presidential spokesperson became more difficult by the day as a result of the tolerance of certain behaviours of PF cadres like the splashing of money. And Chanda says former president Edgar Lungu began to turn a deaf ear to him and only listened to other advisors even when they were lying. Speaking when he featured on Prime TV’s oxygen of democracy programme, Monday, Chanda said the “senseless” display of wealth in the midst of poverty by some PF cadres was prima facie evidence of corruption. “Those are some of the things that I was gravitating around. If I’m the presidential spokesperson who must...

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