VICE president George Kunda has urged the church in Zambia to use its spiritual mighty in bringing about peace and harmony as the nation approaches the 2011 presidential and general elections.
Speaking at the Anglican Church centenary celebrations at saint Marks high school in Choma today, the vice president said the church in Zambia is expected to promote political reconciliation where tension is imminent among citizens.
The vice president said because politics and religion are intertwined, it is necessary to identify common ground where the church and
politics can work together for the benefit of the people.
He urged church leaders to stop any form of violence during the forthcoming presidential and general elections. Vice president Kunda said the nation cannot have a situation in which people are injuring, maiming and destroying property during elections campaigns.
He said church leaders should be able to stop any form of violence during elections. He however expressed sadness at the conduct of some senior church leaders who are involved in hurling insults, finger pointing and counter-accusations.
The vice president said this conduct is a great departure from Christian principles. Vice president Kunda urged churches in Zambia to choose leaders of their choice in the upcoming polls irrespective of tribal belonging.
He also urged the Media in the country to help promote an environment in which next year’s elections will be held in a peaceful environment.
The vice president commended the Anglican Church for taking a none partisan stance. He said the church has also been complementing government in the provision of educational and health services.
Vice president Kunda said the church has made tremendous contribution to the social-economic development of the nation in the last 100 years of its existence in Zambia.
And the church has said it will continue supporting government in its endeavor to develop the nation. Bishop for Lusaka diocese David Njovu also says the church is extremely happy with the support it is rendering to small scale farmers which has resulted in the country recording a bumper harvest in the 2009/2010 farming season.
“The church acknowledges the support government is giving to small scale farmers. This support has resulted in the country recording a bumper harvest,” he said.
He urged government to ensure the rehabilitation of road infrastructure is completed in time to facilitate marketing of produce.
Bishop Njovu was speaking at Saint Marks High school in Choma today during the church’s centenary celebration.
He said the church will continue supporting the government of the day while heralding ethical values that enrich the nation. Bishop Njovu said the church will continue to be the salt and light that enrich the nation.
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Chiluba wins London Judgment case
A Zambian High Court has ruled that the London Judgment involving former president Fredrick Chiluba can not be registered and therefore enforced in Zambia.
A London High Court judgment delivered by Judge Peter Smith in 2007 froze Chiluba’s pension and two properties in Ndola and also found him and others liable of defrauding the Zambian government of about US$46 million.
Zambia’s Attorney General commenced civil proceedings in the London High Court against Chiluba and others to recover monies that were allegedly stolen using bank accounts hosted in London.
But former president Frederick Chiluba challenged the registration of the London High Court judgment in Zambia saying it was colonialist in nature.
Lusaka High Court Judge Evans Hamundu Friday August 14, 2010, delivered a 90-paged judgment in which he said that the London judgment can not be registered in Zambia.
Correction LT.The celebrations were at St. Bartholomew Church, Mapanza Parish and not St. Marks Secondary School.
What do you mean pray for peace,when you know very who is bring confusion,sort out William”Clown”Banda.Kunda stop hallucinating.you are such a shame.
“He urged church leaders to stop any form of violence…” why Kunda can not urge the MMD to stop violence? where did he hear the Anglican church conducting violence in elections? and why not the police to stop violence and william Banda? :-?:-?:-?
Faith without works is dead and the name of the Lord should not be used in vain. Everyone who has been causing anarchy should be firmly dealt with by the law. Every Peace loving Zambian needs to rise up and petition the international courts if the Zambian system has felt to deal with anarchists. What we have seen in Mufumbwe and recently just yesterday is a picture of what is to come if no decisive firm steps are taken to deal with anarchists. The opposition also needs to be cautioned concerning their ego’s. The only way the ruling party can ever be dislodged is through a strong pact, but it seems each one of them still feels they can make it on their own as they feel they have made in roads in areas they were loosing but the question everyone has been possing are those allegations of
Lusaka times can you please post my comment, the Lord will deal with you for perveting justice.
Faith without works is dead and the name of the Lord should not be used in vain. Everyone who has been causing anarchy should be firmly dealt with by the law. Every Peace loving Zambian needs to rise up and petition the international courts if the Zambian system has felt to deal with anarchists. What we have seen in Mufumbwe and recently just yesterday is a picture of what is to come if no decisive firm steps are taken to deal with anarchists. The opposition also needs to be cautioned concerning their ego’s. The only way the ruling party can ever be dislodged is through a strong pact, but it seems each one of them still feels they can make it on their own as they feel they have made in roads in areas they were loosing but the question everyone has been possing are those allegations
contd of rigging. The opposition should not stir Zambians into violence in 2011 with claims of rigging if they lose independently because of their ego’s and did not want to form and perservere in the pact,did not want to humble themselves and put Zambians first. Zambians should refuse to be used by anyone in 2011 if the pact decides to fail because of ego’s, Zambians you have families to take care of. The youths should also be educated likewise they have futures that they need to work on. The only way to eliminate any suspicion of rigging is forming a strong pact. God bless Zambia and God bless all Zambians, In Jesus name.
sorry meant failed and not felt. Zambians we need to think about our families back home and we should not let heartless politicians burn our country whose only goal is to fend for themselves and their families.God bless Zambia and God bless Zambians in Jesus name.
Churches should also be non partisan but should speak the truth to the ruling Party and the Opposition parties. God will also judge the church for either doing nothing or for perverting justice. God bless Zambia and God bless Zambians.
Prevention is better than cure goes the old saying.God bless Zambian and God bless every Zambian.
Later, PF cadres narrated how they were beaten by the MMD at the burial service.
In a walk-in interview at The Post offices, PF provincial publicity and information secretary Stanley Chumya said 15 PF members were beaten by MMD cadres at the instigation of Banda.
He explained that when their five buses were parked outside the church, MMD cadres advanced and beat up some PF cadres in the presence of the police.
The cadres also damaged two of the buses.
“The police were watching when these cadres brutally assaulted our fifteen members and as I am talking to you right now, five are here with us and others have gone to University Teaching Hospital (UTH),” he said.
Chumya complained that despite reporting to the police who were present, nothing was done.
Chumya said the PF…
The funeral was not a campaign rally Mr Chumya. How were you identified as PF cadres? Were you wearing Party attire and flashing your Party symbol? That is inviting trouble – you must actually be charged for being a public nuisance and danger to peace.
“SUPREME Court judge Lombe Chibesakunda on Wednesday upheld a 20
year-jail term imposed on a 36-year-old Chingola man by the High Court for
stealing a bicycle valued at K345,000.”
I have been robbed on many occasions. But, this sentence is too extreme. To be honest even two years would have been. I am sorry to paste this here, but I thought bloggers should be aware of this sentencing and probably debate it. But thanks for reading it.
By the way this article is from the Post online newspaper.
Please continue praying for peace so that RB and group will continue stealing from govt coffers, and dont ever complain because zambia is a ‘christian nation’…………:o
Kunda is a real sick man. I wonder what he is talking about. These are the guys who set their own houses on fire and start crying for help! Kunda knows very well that fuzi william is the guy behind the violence unlesss Kunda is telling us today that he does not know william. Someone to help Kunda think beyond his nose!
The real Kaponyas in this country are WILLIAM BANDA OF MMD AND MICHAEL CHILUFYA SATA OF PF.Zambians sort out this UNIP primitive politics from these former District Governors. In Lundazi William was referred to as Tekere and he really terrorised the people there brandishing pistols so often. As for Sata, ask FDD members especially from Chawama.
One wonders how qualified the reporters and editors at LT are, their grammar and spelling mistakes are becoming a joke. In this article for example, it’s ‘spiritual might’ (noun) not ‘mighty’ (adjective).
iwe ka gk..stop mocking the church..atase..u just want to rig..
It is really suprising to hear from GK that he wants the church to support violence while it is his party MMD acting through William Banda causing violence. Kunda must be sincere with the truth. MMD have got a lisence to maim and kill people with opposing views. It is really sad that Zambia slowly is being engufed in civil war. This is how cival wars start in all these countries fightng now. Let Kunda and RB be careful coz when time is ripe, we shall arrest them.
@18 Distant Drums
You are the joker. It is your grammar that is horrible. What the heck is ‘Spiritual Might’?
This dead man who is still walking called GK is a danger to the peace of Zambia. How can he shamelessly urge the church to do what they already do and leave the perpetrators? Why not tell his MMD to oberve the laws of the country? Why not relvoke the MMD’s license to kill and victimize innocent people? Why did the Church even given chance to this an repentant sinner to address the saints? GK bathes in a turb of blood and prides in shame! Let peace makers to about peace while troublesome people lik GK learn in silence.
Kunda should ask the church to keep praying for him. As for praying for the country to avert violence in the upcoming 2011 elections, he should shut up his red lips. The church has never stopped praying for the nation and dont need sick demented kunda to prompt them. kunda and his boss bwezani kumbuyo nyamasoya banda can stop the violence in an instance by muzzling their rabbied dog william far.t mouth banda. Once willie dick.head banda and is out of picture and they leave keep their filthy hands off the police, violence would not quelled without this rhetoric from redlips.
I correct myself: “Once willie dick.head band is out of the picture in zambian politics, and govt leave the police to do their work, violence would be quelled without this rhetoric from redlips.”
GK, if you want violence to end, castrate William Banda first. No amount of prayer will solve the problem of violence as long as Saidi Hawali a.k.a William Banda is loose. Otherwise, twalamuponona chipe.
Good Churches in of this world do not need to be reminded to pray for the peace in our nations. They always do so, as a moral obligation and commitment to their beliefs
Unless, you are some sort of Cult Church, or those few Evangelicals Churches, which are driven to milk away money from the poor.
The message here should be to educate those reckless cadres from all Political Parties.
And of course, to pump some sense into Sata & William Banda’s violent Intellect.
# 13
The man did not just steal the bike. The group actually brutally hit the man on the head with an object plus some beatings leaving him almost dead. That is aggravated robbery and it carries a tough sentence in zambia mainly due to car thefts. Its unfortunate though, looking at the amount, however a life was almost lost.
HIGH Court judge Evans Hamaundu has set aside an order that was granted to the Attorney General in July 2007 to register a London High Court judgement against second President Frederick Chiluba and seven others because there is no such provision under the Zambian laws.
This is in a matter in which Dr Chiluba and seven others asked the court to set aside the order made in the High Court granting the Attorney-General leave to register in the Zambian High Court, the London High Court judgement against them by Judge Peter Smith. High Court judge Japhet Banda, now deceased, had granted leave to the Attorney-General to register the London court judgement in the Zambian High Court under provisions of the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act of the laws of Zambia.
In a judgment delivered on Friday, Judge Hamaundu, who took over the case after the death of Justice Banda said he had searched in the Zambian law provisions that allow direct registration pf judgements obtained in the United Kingdom but found none.
He said the British and Colonial Judgments Act was repealed by the Foreign Judgements Ordinance 12 of 1959. And that at that time, no alternative legal provision had been made for the registration of judgements obtained in the superior courts of the United Kingdom. “Therefore, after the repeal of the British and Colonial Judgements Act, judgements obtained in superior courts of the United Kingdom would only become registrable under the Foreign Judgements Act if and when the Governor (subsequently President) issued an order extending Part…
Mr Justice Hamaundu said he had looked through the Zambian law for such an order, but did not find any.
“This means that the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act does not apply to the United Kingdom at present,’ part of the judgment reads.
Judge Hamaundu said he has searched in all the laws, including the “Applied Laws” for any other statutory provision by which judgements obtained in the courts of United Kingdom could be enforced by direct registration. He said in the circumstances, the Attorney-General should have sought to enforce the London High Court judgement by recourse to the common law, under the principles of “private International law” or Conflicts of Law,’ as the principles are alternatively known.
ZAMBIAN IS IS NOW WORSE, ITS A PIT TO SEE THAT STILL SOME ZAMBIANS ARE STILL GIVING SUPPORT TO MMD AFTER RECEIVING AMA T-SHIRTS AND FITENGE…AND EATING ONCE A DAY..SHAME|
Alah, ka Kunda, kali pa slimming diet makali-one! Look at how his akalukobo is protruding towards KK, had tKK been Zondwe Satanyoko, he would have touched it like he did that Lunda chief. Ka Kunda’s wife is from Luena but this failed to create traction for the MMD in the polls, mwaiche wa kamina Milupi whipped them all hands down. With all the resources concentrated in Liuwa but the MMD still failed to wrestle the seat, on wonders when its 2011 with polls covering the entire length and breadth of the country. All one needs is a slight sense of statistics to see that “kuunka bambile”
Congratulations Judge Evans Hamaundu! You are highly educated Sir! Registering a case from another country in Zambia would have been a very serious anomaly and insult to the sovereignty of Zambia. It is a shame a lawyer and President could not see that sense. Very wise ruling!
indeed the tonga bull of a Judge has done a very patriotic duty
Ha ha ha ha ha, Zambia is a peaceful nation and a Christian naton aswell. Am Zambian, am not DIM (Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity)which in Zambia you mmistake for PEACE and am not a HYPOCRITE who can can sing Halleluyah without a shred of God on his mind. This is what RB, Chiluba and thier cubs think…….. Think again
well fine mr hypocrite, so mr. no 34 at the end of the day the court has ruled and so think again as well. if you are so educated do you actually believe that sata is a better alternative???
# 35..i agree with you sata is not an alternative but CHIWISO
This chap is a joker-isn’t them MMD leadership that fan out violence and support it and protect criminals of violence? Mukakakwa babwana imwe. Just wait your turns. Aya mafunde ya calo mu.lenya no kusu.ndilapo, tukesayasamfya yakabe squeak-clean to deal with you chaps.
@17 BVUTO, I FEEL YOU. Thats what zambians think! Bulldulls!
Which Church is Kunda asking to pray towards the 2011 General Elections? What business does he have with the Church anyway?
He and his friends must not abuse and use the Church in Zambia for their selfish ends.
The Church prays for these chaps, and when they are alone in the dark, they laugh at the poor of the Church and make fun of them.
We will pray for our nation, but not for you to further your injustices!