The Post Newspaper of Zambia has published a number of verifiably false news articles to attack political opponents of the government, says Robert Amsterdam, an international lawyer acting on behalf of the former President Rupiah Banda. “There is now evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Post has deliberately published false news to [...]
This letter from the offices of the Inspector-General of the Zambian Police completely refutes a bogus news story run in the pro-government Post Newspaper, owned and operated by the businessman Fred M’Membe. Mr. M’membe is a close ally of President Michael Sata, who has sought the removal of three judges who had ordered Mr. M’membe [...]
Following Friday’s statement by President Michael Sata accusing former President Rupiah Banda of sowing ethnic divisions, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam has rejected the move as a dishonest and desperate slur on behalf of the Patriotic Front administration. “Let me be absolutely clear: these accusations represent yet another blatant lie based on yet another bogus news [...]
The following statement was published on Zambian Watchdog: STATEMENT ON THE PRESS BRIEFING ADDRESSED BY MOVEMENT FOR MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY (MMD) PRESIDENT DR NEVERS MUMBA AT THE PARTY SECRETARIAT ON MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We have called this media briefing to address and clarify the recent developments that have taken place [...]
It is amazing to me that Fred M’membe, the deeply indebted ally of the Patriotic Front government, is able to plant absolutely false stories in his newspaper with made-up sources, and then the government reacts to these stories with fanatical (and recklessly dangerous) conspiracy stories about ethnic conflict. I hope the donor community is watching [...]
LONDON, 9 JULY 2012 – The decision by the President of Zambia Michael Sata to threaten former President Rupiah Banda for having issued an apology to George W. Bush over Sata’s controversial public insult exposes the political motivations guiding the government’s phony anti-graft campaign, said international lawyer Robert Amsterdam. “It is now transparently clear that [...]
According to a statement published in The Post Newspaper, President Michael Sata is furious with former President Rupiah Banda for having sent a letter of apology to George W. Bush following the president’s insulting slur that the United States was “colonialist.” The Post: President Michael Sata has told Rupiah Banda to prepare to answer for [...]
LUSAKA – 5 JULY 2012 Following a controversial debacle on July 4th in which the current President of Zambia Michael Sata publically attacked and insulted former U.S. President George W. Bush, the former President of Zambia Rupiah Banda has sent a letter to Bush’s offices offering an apology on behalf of the Zambian people. “It [...]
When a former President of the United States (or any country, for that matter) comes to your country to invest millions of dollars into a women’s healthcare clinic, generally, no matter what you may think of him, you are polite enough to be gracious and statesmenlike. Instead, that wasn’t the treatment received by George W. [...]