According to Patriotic Front aligned pages, Edgar Lungu says the government has failed to meet financial and logistical needs as stipulated in the former President Act.
The PF further says Mr. Lungu meets his own costs for food, accommodation, and medical expenses abroad.
In October 23, Lungu said he cannot be bought by government using small crumbs for his political career. 
“They think they can blackmail me by giving me crumbs and all these things. Ba bepelefye, I will seek my rights,” said Lungu.
“We left that home. We didn’t even spend the night there. I hear they are organizing cadres to hound us out of the house. We have already packed, and we have left.”
Lungu said he wouldn’t be blackmailed by using the benefits as nothing would stop him from pursuing his political agenda.
So why is crying that he is meeting his own expenses when he made choice to forfeit the government entitlement?
Below is an article on PF page
I’m Meeting My Own Expenses -ECL
Government has failed to meet from financial , technical and logistical obligations and support to the Office of the Sixth President as stipulated by the Constitution and the Former President’s Act.
Government claims the benefits have been withheld because President Edgar Lungu has joined active politics.
Since then President Lungu has been meeting his own costs for food, accomodations, and medical expenses abroad
