An angry mob has set ablaze a compound for a named religious community leaving three people seriously injured in Kanakantapa area in Chongwe District.
The irate mob set ablaze the village today at around 11: 00 hours, after an alleged suspicions claimed that the sect practices Satanism and terrorizes villagers.
20 Houses and other infrastructures, among them a community school and a church building , worth millions of Kwacha, have been destroyed in the inferno.
Chongwe District commissioner Japhen Mwakalombe confirmed the incident to ZANIS, today, adding that the entire membership of the sect has been left homeless.
Mr. Mwakalombe has ,howeve,r condemned culprits for taking the law into their own hands and has since called on police to arrest the offenders.
The DC said although members of the sect are accused of practicing Satanism, they do not deserve the punishment they have been subjected to.
He has also called on the leader of the named religious group to be living in peace with neighbouring villages and cooperating with government in various development programs.
Mr. Mwakalombe said the religious group refused to be counted during the last national census and also refused to pick up medical attention when they fall sick
[ ZANIS ]
Wow is it not just the Alice Mulenga Lenshina people involved ? i Understand the reminants of her cult settled i chongwe.Too sad 2 hear tho, especially in this age of freedom of worship.
Villagers are backwards. I would never go back to my village, i think my village is nothing special
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Aa blood shed has started already. Yaba Panji was right ka too bad mwe bantu!
Sori for Mushota who doesn’t even know her village. She is a spoiled gal. When you last to Zed? You will be shocked to see the developments in the country. For example, Manda Hill is comparable to any shopping mall in developed countries or in Scotland if not surpassing. It is a pity where people can’t tolerate another’s differences. This is what Col Panji was talking about and it is not yet election time. Pole Sana!!
Mushota when did you last visited Zed?
Mushota when did you last visit Zed?
LT, if other people have “named” the religious sect, why are you failing to mention the name of the same religious sect? Why don’t you quote the source that named the sect?
#1 it is true, Lenshina’s church called Lumpa Church has a branch in Chongwe. It could be another civil war between Abakwa Lumpa and UNIP now called MMD. Believe me or not when KK arrested husband of Lenshina (Alice), there was a powerful UNIP militia, which RB knows very well terrorized innocent Christians. Why did you people let RB & VJ rule you?
Get rid of the foreign cults trying to set base in Zambia and Africa. They do not follow Jesus of Nazareth and have been proven by DNA and historical / acheological evidence to be wrong. Example the mormons and Jehovahs’s witnesses. Rise up for Zambia, rise up for Jesus and denounce cults. Do not be violent be prayerful for our God is not powerful and just. Read John 3:16.
Above should read our God is all powerful and just.
Ladies and Gentlemen, zed chabe nichani kansi, ninshi pantu, kingi kanti, nkaambo nzi. awe too much drama and this is wat makes me miss my beloved country. Everything is outrageously absurd. kekekeke. namoba wayamba kulula!!!!
MUSHOTA TALKED ABOUT GOING TO THE VILLAGE NOT ZAMBIA AS A WHOLE.HOW MANY OF YOU CHAPS OUT THERE EVEN KNOW YOUR VILLAGES YOU THINK LUSAKA IS YOUR VILLAGE.OR INDEED SINCE KK SENT TO UNZA ALMOST BEAR FOOTED WHEN DID YOU LAST LOOK BACK.
This is what you get when you put together ignorance, poverty and religiosity. If some bum decides to worship satanos, diabulos, venus etc, of what beef is it to you if it does not infringe on fundamental rights? If Christians can put up with such barbarism, in what way are they different from islamic fundamentalists? It would make sense if these christian dandaheads had set ablaze a number of the Night Clubs in Lusaka, where there is indeed a reincarnation of Sodom and Gomorrah. Anyway, it does not make any different for christians are just as loathsome as lucifers dead underwear as any other pagan, although some pagans have a high sense of morality. Why not go stone Chiluba and Regina, for there is provision for that in scripture.
mushota you are right.Village people are so so so backwards.i seriouly don’t see myself going to the village later on fitting in their setup, thinking and believe.they are so backward because we have left them out of development programs. the mandahill junza you are boasting about is not in the village.we keep making lusaka “better” the the developed world but less than 100kms outside lusaka people levae in thatched huts and a hoaxed into stupid cults. all the big so called christians are just milking urban people with tith and fail to be true missionaries of christ by venturing out into places they will not get enough tith to buy them the mercs we see them drive
mwanawakwitu. just because the Jehovah’s Witnesses dont uphold doctrines that originated in the paganism shouldnt be a problem. we just like to dig deeper before we follow blindly. e.g christmas. a simple lesson in geography will tell you that there is no way jesus would have been born in the middle east in december given the information about the location of the shepherds at that particular time and the reason why they were away. wake up.even chickens now know that christmas was originally a pagan holiday. Ati rise up for Zambia. what do you even mean? Doesnt your so called good religion teach you about the golden rule. the problem is you go to church to hook up with girls ku choir and for motivational speeches about how God is going to make you rich and not for the gospel itself.shame
#15 Kamushi…..I totally agree with you. Jehovah’switnesses is among the most serious christian congregation i have seen in my life. its true churches have become motivational group therapy assembly rather than the gospel. and for sure churches wait for people to go to them (to attend sunday service) than to go out and preach…this is so illogical for the people that need to be preached to are those that don’t attend sunday service. the witnesses go out to preach and distribute reading materials for free. they are not just preaching to people that want to pay for the gospel but to the people need the gospel.