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No, the new ZRA Commissioner General has not asked Senior Managers to reapply

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The ZRA Spokesperson Mr Topsy Sikalinda told the iVerify Factchecking Team that the information circulating on social media that the new Commissioner General had ordered Senior Managers to re-apply for their positions is fake

Verified Oct, 20 2021

Claim

An article received through the iVerify tip line on 12th October 2021 claimed that the newly appointed Zambia Revenue Authority Commissioner Dingani Banda has ordered senior management to reapply for their positions. The article further claimed that Mr Banda’s actions are because he suspected that most of the senior management members are Patriotic Front surrogates. A similar article was also published on the Zambian Watchdog website.

Rating Justification

The fact checking process has determined as false the claim that the newly appointed Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner General Dingani Banda has ordered Senior Management to reapply for their positions. The iVerify fact checking team phone called the Zambia Revenue Authority spokesperson Mr Topsy Sikalinda to substantiate the claims in the article. Mr Sikalinda told the iVerify team that the information circulating on social media about senior members reapplying for their positions is misinforming and that such publications should be regarded as fake. Mr Sikalinda further added that the Zambia Revenue Authority has not taken time to respond to such misleading articles because they do not even know the source of the allegations hence rendering all this as invalid and not worth to concentrate on. Mr Sikalinda revealed to the iVerify team that the newly appointed ZRA Commissioner General Mr Dingani Banda is focusing on how the Authority is going to work in line with collecting more revenues for the nation and that he has no time to respond to such allegations.

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