Police in Lusaka has arrested a named pastor’s wife from Chawama compound in connection with alleged food poisoning of 14 unsuspecting members of one family. Zambia Police Deputy Spokesperson, Ndandula Siamana has confirmed the development to ZANIS in Lusaka today.
According to a source who sought anonymity in an interview in Lusaka today the arrest of the woman follows an incident in which six members of one family were on August 17, 2010 rushed to University Teaching Hospital (UTH) filter clinic after suspected food poisoning. The source said other eight members were also taken to Chawama clinic the following day after eating the same food adding that this prompted hospital authorities to investigate the cause of sickness.
According to her, investigations revealed that the food and water had some poison and that an inquiry into the matter pointed to a named pastor’s wife of an identified local church. The source further disclosed that the identified woman between 15 and 17th August allegedly hired another female, a neighbour to the victims to lace their food with poison.
The Pastor’s wife is in custody and will according to the source appear in court on Monday while the husband is away in Kapiri Mposhi where he is said to have gone for two weeks to open new church branches.
According to the source, the Pastor’s wife was behind all this incident. She used a friend who is a neighbor to put poison in the food. This was known after a child in the house who is also a victim told the family that she saw the neighbour putting something in the food. After questioning, the neighbour revealed that it was the Pastor’s wife who sent her and she did not know that it was poison , the source said.
And one of the victims, Mrs. Carol Banda who also confirmed the incident wondered how the woman who is a pastor’s wife would want to kill them. Police Deputy Spokesperson, Ndandula Siamana who confirmed the development to ZANIS said the police received the information on Monday this week that the family was having their late launch when they stopped eating to welcome relatives who visited them.
Ms Siamana said after escorting the same visitors, the family members continued with their lunch and they complained of running stomachs in the evening and were immediately rushed to UTH.
Ms. Siamana said Police suspected foul play saying investigations into the issue to determine whether there was poisoning had continued.
And efforts to get UTH Public Relations Manager Pauline Mbangweta proved futile as her phone remained unanswered.
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Cage the devil clergys wife. Evil and wicked woman.
This Ka amai busa should rot in jail.
#1 and 2 One is innocent until proven guilty.
3 true meant caged in remandy pending trial.
And who said a pastor’z wife can’t indulge in evil activitiez? But then ZANIS would do well to be a little more “journalistic”; somebody doezn’t just walk into a stranger’z house, open pots and “put poizon”. I smell a dead rat, very dead rat indeed.
No wonder ba leufya na ba mafumo instead of allowing them a break to get recociled to God ubunda bwa ku te mwa Umu tulo.Mwi ka tulengesha mwe nutungulushi sha ba Yahweh.With fear and trembling, I will continue fighting for my salvation.
2 early to make conclusions maybe the pastors wife is innocent after all.The person who pointed out the pastors wife may as well be just another psycho who knows.Know one guy who had undergone testectomy and was some years later accused of impregnating a girl in the neighbourhood.Before the guy could be proven innocent the pipo were like “how can she just point you out…out of all people”.We should learn to hear both sides before coming to conclusions bane.
Fcuk fake ass people who hid behind church
this is what happens when u dont bonk. lack of sex is a problem that leads to insane activities. it has been proved. so for all yall who cant satisfy yo women. holla at me. ni live fye
Come on!
With poverty levels this high one can easily resort to evils ways. i know in zambia relatives DO NOT know when their visit should end! this is the truth and these ‘relatives’ sometimes will pay you a visit unaanounced and bring with them their entire clan. on top of this they expect alot of oil in their food and want chicken and heavy breakfast. POISON them!
Come on!
who knows may be the wife was just receiving and carring out orders from the pastor? dont be quick to blame others.
Come on!
next time these visitors will know when to visit. its a shame how zambians have no consideration of family values! sometimes a family will send siblings to a newly married woman’s house! let a husband and wife enjoy their love and space before you pack your bags and move in with them! its a shame!
marry musungu and u will never go wrong. bafilika mwalichilamo.
calm down its only an allegation, what if the food had just gone off and as a result everybody got the bug? Why did she have to involve the neighbor to commit murder? Give the Pastor’s wife a break, who hasn’t experienced diarrhoea this time of the year in our dirty slam called Zambia?
#3 and 14 are the only analytical thinkers on this blog.they study the matter before making any senseless reaction.
The story is not clear. Food poisoning usually isn’t a criminal case. Food poisoning usually happens latently when germs make too many toxins in your stomach. It can occur from eating food that is not washed or not cooked properly so I dont see how someone could have been arrested on food poisioning charges. I think the writer just means poisoning.
arrest this silly woman..jail her ..
Innocent until proven guity??? That only applies to the law and lawyers. There are many instances where one is guity and all facts are there but must be treated as innocent. A case in mind is where a single Lusaka lady was caught in the act with a married man by the man’s wife in one of the shops at Inter City. So, Marketeers and Call Boys dragged her out of the shop in the nude. In such a case, where is innocence? This innocent until proven guity thing is utter hogwash sometimes.
Coming to the issue, this must be a shelfish family. They stopped eating as soon as visitors arrived and resumed when vistors left!!!! What nonsense is that? The Pastor’s wife is guity. By testiony of two witnesses, someone is guity. And she has not even denied that she instructed her neighbour.
The story isn’t true. I tell it is false. The person just walk in & gives a very incoherent story & LT writes it. How does the neighbour go and start opening pots in the neighbour’s house without their knowledge. How does the pastor’s wife become so dull that in doing such an evil act which is attempted murder use the neighbour? She would have gone herself & alone only. The woman who was given substance,assuming she was truely given, would have asked to know what she was given to go & throw in the neighbours. U just can’t receive something without knowing it & u go throw it in someones food. If indeed that family was poisoned, i guess the very person who threw the poison into other peoples pots is the guilty one. Bana pastor is innocent & just being pesercuted. Read between the lines!
This is not a true story. Why would she use someone to do such a thing when she knows it is very easy for things to backfire? Why would she even want to kill a whole family? There are too many unaswered questions in this story and there is no substance whatsoever.
This is happening because of RB’s MMD administration.
I don’t know why LT found such a story newsworthy. There are simply too many holes to be true and as such I don’t expect any journalist to publish such a story without filling up most of the gaps first.
Too many Nigerian movies on the market. they are polluting the minds of our pipo. as for the pastor’s wife let her go in.
Mrs Pastor ninshi let God fight your battles do not listen to the devil.
You Africans should first analyse the situation here. The neighbor is sent to put poison in some food. I can assure you this neighbour is merely making a claim. How can someone send you to put some staff you dont know in other peoples food. She is either an accomplice or just accussing the pastors wife. Maybe she is even seeing the pastor secretly, so to get remove the obstacle- she plays it smart!
nigerian movies..indeed..they shud be banned in zambia..
and why is the name of the pastor’s wife not revealed? are women also supposed to have their identities protected like children offenders???