Kafue residents have expressed concern at the laxity by police in the district in tackling criminal activities by armed bandits who are terrorizing residents.
This has come in the wake of thefts in Kafue where armed bandits in Shikoswe township shot and wounded a Pentecostal Holiness Church Pastor, Simon Zimba of House number S 87/26 Shikoswe and Site Service  on his upper right hand on Saturday night and made away with more than K4.8 Million cash.
Both police and hospital authorities confirmed having received the report but refused to comment further. According to the medical report obtained by ZANIS in Kafue today, revealed that Pastor Simon Zimba sustained painful and swelling right upper shoulder and fractured right hand.
And speaking in an interview later with ZANIS in Kafue today, Pastor Zimba narrated that  the incident happened on Saturday night around 21.00 hours when the four (4) armed bandits ambushed his house and started harassing his children ordering them to show them where he usually hides his money.
Pastor Zimba said that when he arrived home at 21:45 hrs after  knocking off from his shop, he did not know that some thieves were waiting for him inside his house and had  ordered his family members to take cover on the floor and threatened to shoot any one who will scream for help.
He said upon parking his vehicle in his yard one of the bandits armed with an AK47 came from behind the house and ordered him to enter inside the house while the other one was standing at the door with an AK47 waving at him to come inside the house. He narrated that upon realizing that his life was in danger he dipped into his pocket and gave K2.5 million to one of the thieves who was ordering him to enter inside the house and managed to escape and hide underneath a stationed minibus which was parked near his verandah.
He recalled that that it was at this point that the thief got furious and shot him at close range on the upper hand. He however, manage to crawl from the other side and managed to escape to the nearest bar where he had found a plain police man drinking beer from a near by bar and asked for help.
He added that the police mobilized for more man power and rushed him to Kafue District hospital. He said the police dumped him at the hospital and never bothered to take any statements from him and even the cartridges and only managed to get statements from him yesterday when they heard that he was discharged.
When contacted for comment Kafue District Commissioner Henry Bowa confirmed having received the report and appealed to Lusaka Province Commanding officer Greenwell Nguni to intervene in the matter by sending the fly squad to the area because residents are now living in fear.
Makes very sad reading
this is all so so sad. why kafue of all places?
Was the bar the only place he could run to. Even the officer found at the bar this narrating awe
Ba LT we are waiting for the news about fugitive Xavier return.
# 3. I think the so called plain police man was off duty and quenching his thirst at the bar.
Block and vanquished former Zambia spy chief surrenders to police
Zambia’s former chief of intelligence has given himself up to police after being on the run from corruption charges for more than two years, police in the southern African nation said on Wednesday.
Xavier Chungu surrendered himself to the police in Lusaka this morning and he is in our custody,” Francis Kabonde, the inspector general of police, told state media. Chungu made no comment when he was taken in.He has lost a wife, properties, homes and children to either drugs or prostitution.He has no reason to live for.What a life!
LUSAKA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Zambia’s former chief of intelligence has given himself up to police after being on the run from corruption charges for more than two years, police in the southern African nation said on Wednesday.
Xavier Chungu was among a group of high-profile figures targeted as part of an anti-graft campaign introduced by former President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in August. Charges against Chungu were announced in 2006 and he was believed to have left the country.
“He surrendered himself to the police in Lusaka this morning and he is in our custody,” Francis Kabonde, the inspector general of police, told state media. Chungu made no comment when he was taken in.
Western
how come the pastor owns a shop? i thought the congregation is supposed to look after him………tithes
Western donors and international agencies have praised Zambia’s government for tackling corruption.
Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba currently faces charges of theft of $488,000 in treasury funds during the time he ruled the country between 1991 and 2001. Chiluba has denied any wrongdoing.
A number of key figures in Chiluba’s government have either been jailed for corruption or are facing serious graft charges. (Reporting by Shapi Shacinda; Editing by Paul Simao and Matthew Tostevin)
Sad for the pastor i believe things will get better here in Zed.Otherwise shooting is not only in Zambia its happening all over the world. I am just wondering i didn’t hear that news.Anyhow may be i was busy doing other things.
home sweet home
Sad, I hope things are not getting out of control back home
Was his run away worth it? Who has turned a life time loser now between the people of Zambia and Chungu? Foreign nations can treat you to a grandeur but not long when you are out of power with nothing to bnefit them.Chungu is a sad loser.He has lost friends, dignity,family and properties.I will not be stunned to hear he has surrendered for a descent burial out of depression.It was a loser’s move.
what goes round comes around, pastors steal from people every sunday, maybe be those guys just went to get back what belongs to them. People get swindled for years and years, all in the name of an imaginary God.
While its sad for the pastor, i hope the loot that the thieves got was not church money otherwise anything is possible. Our dear man of the collar could have engaged the criminals with the intention of hiding the shortage he has in the tithe. So ba polepole you have some questions to clarify.
# 6 your analysis is correct altho I believe not all is lost. He has God. The man has lost everythin he invested in i.e. earthly treasures his wife and the other things you mention. This has really been torture to him.
We wait and hear what RB has to say at the end of the day.
Sorryguys ba pastor bainonshinta hhmm hhmm!
#8 Foxy, why should it be something strange for a pastor to own a shop? There are so many wealthy men of God. Anyhow, these bandits need to be dealt with quick before they cause more harm to innocent lives.
Saviour Chungu is cleaner than Vernon Mwaanga
Saviour, welcome back home
Considering that Sata publicly declared as his priority policy to unconditionally pardon Xavier Chungu a day after winning electionss, the plunder’s surrender and self humiliation is the surrest way of his loss of hope in the Sata dream of ruling Zambia.He has just put a nail in the Sata Guy Scott ticket that no way no how will they ever enter plot one.The poor soul is tired waiting for the unknown on foreign streets where everything has been lost.Even captain solo in Mukobeko whose family visits him and children going to school is happier than Chungu who has nothing to his name.Wife and brother Emmanuel late MP gone, properties frozen and children surrendered to Hiv Aids, prostitution and i
Our kwacha is now finished. how can someone dip into his pocket and get K2.5 MILLION. Don’t worry pastor sunday is not too far.
All those commenting in a biased manner regarding the Pastor who fell victim to bandits need to know that chaona mzako chapita, mawa chili paiwe.
How do you condemn a man whom you do not know? If he does not engage in business to support his family, you say that he is stealing Church funds. When he engages in economic enterprise you still remain negative.
This only exposes what sort of corrupt people you are. Someone even goes to the extreme extent of postulating that God is imaginary. How ignorant!
I am surprised that there is no humanity in how we are discussing issues that concern real people in real painful situations. We are happily prejudging and condemning people. Be kind.
Shikoswa has been a frequent den for thieves for sometime. it goes quite only to erupt after some time.when thieves are cornered in Lusaka they come to terrorise shikoswe. such a nice place is not a safe place anylonger. Kindly the police sort this out before a life is lost.
The reporters were not suppose to put gravity on the fact that he is a pastor but a shopkeeper. I say this because it was a saturday night and the money he was having was from his shop and not church.
Besides I personally know Simon Zimba and he is well known as a shopkeeper and not for his Pastoral activities.
BAMWINE
Too bad pastoer i wish you a quick recovery and begin your services
The Pastor missed his bus to heaven.He would have gone to heaven had he died but I think he is not too sure about heaven hence his running to a bar. lol.
stealing is the work of the devil and i know that the devil armed at terminating your life but God almighty refused to give you in the hands of your enemies.we thank God for his protection.it is well with you man of God.
Ba PF lets demostrate,am in a chi vivula mood this week