Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba has gone against clear state media footage that exposes how his boss planned and operationalised the 1 August 2018 brutality.

Charamba’s verbage, comes ahead of a Zambian parliamentary probe of Mnangagwa’s role as he worked together with outgoing President Edgar Lungu, to destroy evidence of his own brutalities since August 2018.

Mnangagwa’s proxy, Lungu was defeated in the just ended elections.

Writing on Twitter, Charamba accused journalist Hopewell Chin’ono of having sold out opposition “hideouts” and their operation methods after the 2018 harmonised elections.

“Both the doctors for human rights and Counselling Services Unit (CSU), as with many other regime change outfits, got funding from the US embassy, whether directly through USAid and its agencies, or indirectly and with support from many Western governments including the United Kingdom government, through accounts ran by some Nordic countries,” he said.

He added saying “in rare yet notable cases, funds would be routed through United Nations agencies.”

He also claimed all the reported cases of brutality were sponsored and dramatised to “overwhelm the nascent Second Republic”.

“The strategy was a simple one from a propaganda point of view: engage several make-up artists who manufacture horror images in brisk succession to a point where a narrative of gory brutality sticks, and with such rapidity that the police — then still under reconstruction in the wake of events of 2017 — would simply get overwhelmed and too paralysed to investigate any alleged case. ME