First Republican President Kenneth David Kaunda has with immediate effect released the nation, its people and the presidency from every negative forces made against Zambia.
Dr. Kaunda, a freedom fighter, former prime minister and cabinet minister in the first republic, further says Zambia shall forever enjoy tranquillity and remain a united and peaceful nation.
Dr. Kaunda was speaking in Lusaka yuesterday shortly after being honoured by President Edgar Lungu as Zambia’s founding father during the investiture honouring ceremony for Africa Freedom day held at State House.
Dr. Kaunda has been honoured together with Alexander Grey Zulu and Sikota Wina and 13 other freedom fighters who were awarded posthumously.
Dr Kaunda and his hero friends sacrificed their time, resources and energy for Zambians to be economically and socially independent
This year’s national theme for the commemoration is: “Celebrating 50 years of our national existence and accelerating socio-economic transformation”.
Dr Kaunda pronounced a blessing of peace, prosperity and stability upon the nation, presidency and the people of Zambia.
“I release the nation, its people and the presidency from every negative forces made against Zambia. I submit the souls now living and prosperity and also its presidency to the salvation and lordship of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father,” said Dr Kaunda.
“I further declare that Zambia shall forever enjoy tranquillity and remain a united and peaceful people under the motto; One Zambia, One nation,” Dr. Kaunda said.
The founding father thanked President Lungu for honouring him for his immense contribution he rendered to Zambia’s political struggle.
Meanwhile, Zambia’s sixth President Edgar Lungu has challenged Zambians to inculcate a culture of unity and hard work to attain a stable, peaceful and prosperous nation in the next 50 years.
President Lungu in his eve Africa Freedom Day message, said citizens should uphold the national aspiration of transforming the country into a highly-productive society through innovation and competitiveness.
And Mr. Lungu has pardoned and released 177 prisoners country-wide in commemoration of the Africa Freedom Day being celebrated today.
Mr. Lungu has also commuted sentences of 54 prisoners who were serving death sentences to life imprisonment while 41 inmates initially sentenced to life imprisonment have their sentences reduced to 25 years.
The President pardoned and released prisoners in exercise of powers vested in him under article 59 of the constitution of Zambia which empowers the Head of State to exercise prerogative of mercy.
The released prisoners were picked from various prisons across the country which included Mukobeko Maximum Prison.
This is the first time in the history of Zambia to have some inmates from Mukobeko Maximum Prison considered for release during the commemoration of Africa Freedom Day.
Edgar Lungu looks drunk in that picture. If not, then he had one too many the previous night.
Kenneth Kaunda’s cabinet was very insensitive to gender.
You are useless, you are the one drunk you can’t see properly
Please lets learn to respect our leaders. Leadership is from GOD and there can be only one leader at time.
Of course he had a terrible hangover, anyone can see from his puffed face, what happened to his RSA rehab schedule?
What is the nation being released from? Who has been holding the nation or what negative forces are being talked about here? What this country needs is development which is fairly distributed and not being released from unseen forces.
It’s a good gesture to honour these founding fathers.
That said, KK should ask his driver to take him to Bwinjifumu Road.
And start by telling Fred False Prophet Mmembe to stop the ” Axis of Evil ” that he has subjected the nation to, because of Sickening Satanic Ego. These two are comrades.
That itself would be a good starting point, to move forward as the nation.
KK.. Big man! Thanks for the prayers. Zambia needs such wisdom at this junction in time.
its important for us to receive such blessings from the first head of state.good things come when elders bless you. That was a powerful prayer and should not be taken lightly. we really need God to help this country prosper. The issues we are facing are beyond human solutions
And so says a dumb savage who fell for the white man’s made up god.
You DO realize that believing in a big-daddy-in-the-sky that loves you but will punish you with eternal torment is truly insane?
You speak a lot of sense there ‘Reason’
God Bless KK God Bless Zambia! Can’t help but compare the size of cabinet then and now. We are however surely a blessed nation
Illiteracy and Ignorance is what destroy’s Africa.
Man Made Religions are the cause of all the problems we face today in the world…why because religion today is full of nothing but stoopidity. The so-called leaders of the world use religion as a tool to control the masses and the sad thing is that, YOU the stoopid men and women of today continue to follow them like Mary’s little lambs
We all indeed owe them a big thank you for us who never paid any school fees to highest level of education. God bless
Jesus did not want you in his club. Unless you were a Jew, Jesus thought you were a filthy animal. Yes, even if you are Christian. It is all in the Bible.
Jesus encouaged his disciple to preach to the Gentles (you and me) and the jews alike. what are you talking about.
KK had a clear vision for Zambia,not the current leadres.Politics of the stomach.Thanks KK ,am where am today because of your policies.Thank you for shaking my hand at graduation.
Oh so he has cursed the country and its leadership before? Sad to learn!
@Kansime, which leadership is from God?
KK was humiliated and insulted by most of us including myself when I was at the University but we later realised that since he left, no president has achieved what KK achieved. We thank God for KK and this prayer. I believe the prayer has edified both Zambians and KK himself so that we forgive each other and be released from the curse. This is a timely prayer. KK may say bye to us any time so he has to forgive us. Thank you Mr President.
For 27 years this man thought he was KKING of Zambia.
Now he thinks he is God that he can give divine judgements?
He should be in JAIL for all the people he killed!
Why dont you tell us which people he killed? Dont just accuse put the facts on the table.
Judge not who are you to judge him? are you God ?God forgives A sinful And repentant Heart.Atleast he has realesed us and generations to come it takes the Grace of God to do that.
Iam 42 and I can recognise most of KK’s cabinet. In that picture I can see seven people who are mentally liberated. Yes they are trying to show their liberation through their dressing. Their dressing is making a statement. The statement is that I wont obey what the coloniser says are the rules of civilisation. They don’t wear neckties or jackets, the mentally enslaving European clothing that the coloniser told us you have to wear to look civilised. The liberated ones are Grey Zulu, Simon Kapwepwe, Mainza Chona, Solomon Kalulu, Elijah Mudenda, the man standing behind Reuben Kamanga, and the one behind him. KK was to later realise that what he was wearing were slave clothes and he switched to African safari suits like Nyerere
Very true. Clothes do show just how mentally liberated one is. They also show how mentally enslaved a person is.
Why is it that all Upnd sympathizers don’t support Christianity but they support HH who is a Christian. Am just thinking loud.
Only God can bless the nation. All KK can do is ask God to bless Zambia. Please do not allow anyone to deputise God. The fact that KK saw God as his equal and let his disciples chant, ” Kumulu Lesa, Panshi Kaunda” was the cause of his ultimate downfall.
What Dr Kaunda has done is noble. This is what every father does to his children before he dies. He speaks a blessing upon them. He pronounces a blessing upon his children and releases them from any curse. He prays for them and shields them from any negative forces. We recieve the blessing and what to thank Dr kaunda for being such a good father and may God bless him too. NOW Zambia is blessed. Now Zambia is free.
The Fifth Biblical Commandment states, “honor your father and mother that you may live a long life and that all may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” Those who have been groomed and reared in a stable and healthy home have wholeheartedly embraced Dr. Kaunda’s Blessing to the Nation. They understand that the words of an elder or a parent are a light in the path of life. Dr. Kaunda speaking, not as a politician but the Founding Father of the Nation, released Zambia from all forms of negative forces. There is deep wisdom in that. One of the wise sayings from East Africa goes, “what a young man can see only while standing, an elder is able to see while seated.”
In blessing the current generation of Zambians and posterity, Dr. Kaunda was passing on something more precious to the people of Zambia than we realize. He was imparting upon us that which he is renowned for on the world platform. When you travel abroad and people realize that you are from Zambia, have you noticed that more often than not, they would look at you and go, “O so you are from Zambia, how is KK?” You must understand that it is not mere greeting or effort to start a conversation, but rather they are indirectly telling you, “we know that Kaunda who is the founding father of your nation epitomizes peace, love and unity on the world platform; and that since a child takes after its father, we believe you stand for the same attributes. There4 we deposit our trust in you.”