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Fake! The Circular alleged to have come from Ministry of Finance and National Planning is not genuine

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The Ministry of Finance and National Planning says the circular circulating on social media that the Ministry is inviting applications for women’s national empowerment programme, is not authentic.

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Verified Aug, 29 2022

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On Monday, August 29 2022, iVerify Zambia received a request through its Facebook tipline to verify the authenticity of a circular purported to have come from the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, inviting applications from women groups who are already doing business or would like to start business but lack the needed funds, to submit through the Ministry of Finance and National Planning’s National Women Empowerment Programme.

Rating Justification

iVerify Zambia’s fact checking process has determined as false and unauthentic, the circular making rounds on social media that the Ministry of Finance and National Planning is inviting applications from women groups who are already doing business or would like to start business but lack the funds needed, to submit through the Ministry of Finance and National Planning’s alleged National Women Empowerment programme.To arrive at this position, iVerify Zambia visited the ministry’s Facebook page where in a post dated August 23 2022, the ministry dismissed the circular as an illegal scheme. In the same post, the ministry stated that the Coat of Arms on the circular and date stamp were illegal while the signatory on the circular was also fake. The ministry urged the public not to fall for this fraudulent act and report perpetrators of the fake scheme to the police fraud unit. Therefore, the claims contained in the circular circulating on social media that the Ministry of Finance and National Planning is inviting applications from women groups who are already doing business or would like to start business but lack the funds needed, to submit their applications through the Ministry of Finance and National Planning’s National Women Empowerment Programme, is false and the circular is unauthentic.

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