By Our Foreign Staff and Agencies in Lusaka
Published: 10:52PM BST 24 Jun 2009
President Banda took the unfortunate incident in good humour.
"You have urinated on my jacket," a startled Mr Banda told the monkey, looking up at a tree.
The monkey was one of a colony that has made the its home in the trees outside Mr Banda's offices at Lusaka's State House.
"I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata," he joked, referring to the opposition leader Michael Sata, who Mr Banda defeated in last year's elections.
Mr Banda somehow managed to continue his press conference, only the second of his presidency.
He used the occasion to reassure Zambians over the country's dramatic economic slowdown resulting from plunging prices for copper, the country's main export.
"Our growth prospects have diminished, such that the projected gross domestic product has now been revised downwards to 4.0 per cent or below. This reduction has implications for the domestic revenues, with both corperate and income taxes likely to reduce," Mr Banda said.
