Claim
A Facebook page owned by National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Saboi Imboela on July 12 2022 published an article claiming that former Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner -General Kingsley Chanda published an article in which he analysed a report by ZRA on the collection of taxes and revenue in the past six months. The article explains how Mr Chanda is said to have analysed the report and spotted something in the calculations which he allegedly claimed did not to make sense.
Rating Justification
iVerify Zambia’s fact-checking process has determined as false the claim that former Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner-General Mr. Kingsley Chanda had published an article in which he analysed the report by ZRA on the collection of taxes and revenue in the past six months. The article explains how Mr Chanda is said to analysed the ZRA report and spotted something in the calculations which he claimed did not to make sense. But when contacted by iVerify Zambia to find out if he was indeed the author of the said article, Mr. Chanda denied authoring such an article. Other than mentioning his name, non of the posts on the article links to Mr Chanda’s social media profiles.
