One of the most important was that of former journalist Amos Chanda who was the President's spokesman for four years until his sudden exit from State House in June...
Statements in a state State House official spokesman Amos Chanda has been energetically denying Africa Confidential's article about the US$500 million sovereign guarantee signed by President Edgar Lungu with South Africa's STAG company on behalf of the state electricity company Zesco (AC Vol 59 No 10 A swirling fog of debt)...
Lungu's spokesperson Amos Chanda has indicated that the government will engage with the IMF on its own terms and can manage without the Fund...
Senior intelligence officers and other security officials are concerned about the growing power of State House officials chiefly Political Adviser Kaizar Zulu State House Spokesperson Amos Chanda and State House Permanent Secretary Christa Ursula Kalulu (AC Vol 57 No 15 Kaizar the kingpin)...
Just after the High Court rulings Lungu's spokesperson Amos Chanda strongly attacked the judges on national television accusing them of being opposition sympathisers out to hand power to the UPND...
Mosho is said to be close to State House press aide Amos Chanda...
Lungu's aide Amos Chanda was said to have used the incident to diminish Zulu in the President's eyes and Zulu was dropped from his entourage for his inaugural trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York...
ACC was investigating the special assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda but it backed off after Chanda accused it of 'trying to play politics'...
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Last October the Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda wrote to the ZSIS Director General Samuel Nkhoma (promoted from Deputy DG) asking him to sign a contract with Timor Consulting of Israel an electoral consulting firm to help the PF win the general elections this year said reports in the Zambian press...
They include PF Secretary General Davies Chama; his deputy Mumbi Phiri; Amos Chanda who is Special Assistant for Press and a former journalist; and Lungu's Political Advisor Kaizer Zulu...