ACC Raids Amos Chanda’s Home

The Anti-Corruption Commission has raided the home of President Lungu’s former press advisor Amos Chanda, the day after searching a farm he lets out in State Lodge.

According to Mr Chanda, 18 officers searched his home, as well as the home of his sister-in-law. They seized documents, including the payrolls of his tenant farmers and copies of his diplomatic and personal passports. They also took with them Stanbic bank deposit slips and a Lusaka City Council valuation certificate. 

Mr Chanda claims one of the officers assaulted his sister-in-law and “threatened to pull a gun” on him for trying to prevent the officer from throwing a medicine box on the floor. The former aide has since filed a complaint with the team’s leader.

The raid came just 24-hours after a similar search of a farm belonging to Mr Chanda, where ACC officers made off with his tenant’s title deed and K95,000 in cash.

Mr Chanda later described the search as “pure harassment and lawlessness” and claimed that the officers were under direct orders from President Hakainde Hichilema to investigate him. 

He claimed he was being used as a “scape goat” and that he did not have any wrongfully acquired properties to surrender to the authorities.