The Forum for Progressive Politics (FPP) has commended the people of Western Province for hosting a successful Kuomboka traditional ceremony despite negative coverage from some sections of the media.
FPP Secretary General Charles Kafumbo said the people of Western Provinces have proved their love for the ceremony by exhibiting maturity despite desperate attempts by some sections of the media and politicians to incite hatred in the province.
Mr. Kafumbo told ZANIS in an interview that the peaceful environment that characterized the ceremony symbolizes that people of the province can co-exist with other tribes amid seemingly political tension.
He warned politicians to desist from politicizing traditional ceremonies as it acts as a unifying factor among the people.
Mr. Kafumbo said traditional ceremonies are important for the promotion of tourism and preservation of the cultural heritage and customs of the Zambian people.
And Mr. Kafumbo has made an earnest appeal to Get Involved Zambia executive director, Father Frank Bwalya to seriously reflect on his involvement in partisan politics.
He said it was disheartening that Fr. Bwalya has taken a confrontation stance against government instead of preaching peace and unity as the country goes to the polls this year.
Mr. Kafumbo said as advocates of the White Card Campaign which intends to counter the Red Card Campaign of Fr. Bwalya, the FPP has offered an olive branch to him to immediately stop his political activities and renounce violence.
He has reiterated his call to the Catholic Church to categorically distance itself from the political activities of Fr. Bwalya and take disciplinary action against him.
Mr. Kafumbo stated that the apparent silence by the church may imply that it is supporting Fr. Bwalya’s activities.
He noted if the church does not clearly state its stance on Fr. Bwalya, it will divide its members who support different political parties.
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************ they chose to ignore Palm Sunday replacing with looking at some Silly Boat
Musater Nioco iwe . Ulimwana we hule. Chi noko cakunyele fwe. That is why you stink because you’re pure poo.
Lets start a yellow card campaign instead of white or blue!
Ba Maureen dnt judge us leave that to God. Dnt call our tradition silly i wonder where u come if thre is tradition
It is expecting too much from the Catholic clergy to condemn or distance themselves from FFB. They are also behind Mmembe’s post and its unholy marriage with sata whom they have instructed to enact laws that will recognise homosexuality if he wins. The Catholic bishops, fathers and priests the world over are themselves gays, child molesters, sodomise each other and engage in despicable acts with nuns. Zambians must be wary of such hypocrites who hide in the church’s cloth and yet they want to replay Rwanda 1994 on our beloved country.
Madam, Maureen have respect for peoples norms and values. I am not Lozi but what you wrote is out of context. We are one Proud Country and should appreciate our Traditions. / Ceremony? You can’t call Kuomboka Silly? You are an embarrassment to the online Zambian community.
#1 MAUREEN – who cares what you think, you are just a gwat. Get over your inferiority complex.
#1 Maureen, who are u to judge a whole entire people? Do you think a judgemental person like ur self will enter the pearly gates? You are a disgrace to Zambia and it’s loving people.
Enough about Maureen! I think we all agree that her comments are calous!
Mr. Kafumbo sounds like a carder. I do not agree with his assertion that Father Bwalya advocates violence. I thought the red card campaign is a peaceful campaign to get Ala-Bee and Mukudya-Mweka Daddy (MMD) and mediocre thinking out of our faces??? Wake up Kafumbo . . .uno mwaka kuya bebele!
I agree with Ba Maureen. Why chose the event when there is an important Christian even going on ? Would the water have dried up if they has resheduled it. I can call it silly as well !
What is so important about your private Christian beliefs you i.d.io/t? Is this even important to God or to you? It is a fact that Billions of people are gonna ignore it? So what is you and your God going to do? Throw Tantrums? What sort of a Christian are you anyway? You dont even understand your own scriptures. Jesus told you that what is important for you is to accept him as your personal saviour. He also urged you to stop dubious ceremonies and so called Godly practices. That is why he told you that even if it is on a so called Sabath you should not ignore your sheep when it falls into a ditch. Your Jesus was interested with what was in your heart not your stu/pid christian ceremonies. Now buzz off and go to your sister, mom or girlfriend and give them a kiss from me! Bupuba!
Zambian people never sieze to amaze me! if u hold a different opinion from somelse’s then ur advocating violence…condeming the govt is not advocating violence…u pro govt pipo are the ones that incite violence coz u instill discriminatory thoughts into peoples minds…let people be free to speak their minds….!!!
#1Ba moron, you are a twit dunderhead, malepe ubutali!!! you stink eish.
#9, yo name tells it all, yu are a plain paper indeed, no brains whatsoever. To hell with yo christianity. munungu wahao sitongwani wena.
Ba Maureen, you are completely mistaken. Kuomboka ceremony was yesterdae and today is Palm Sunday. It seems you are a day behind. And you ndate sicaba, who told you that the whole catholic fraternity is like that? Does it mean that simply because one married man had an affair outside marriage, so the rest of the couples are adulterers. Shame on you. Do not paint every priest with one brush.
Ba Lusaka Times this i/dio.t who calls himself Ba Maureen is a hardcore hater, bigot and tribalist. He has been using your site to spread hate. What is surprising is that you have never censored or deleted this m/o/ro.ns insulting contributions. Does he work for you or do you share in his bigotry? Are you also a bunch of tribalist? Honestly Lusaka Times were is your decency? Most if not all decent sites on the web delete racist, tribal or insulting contributions. LT if you take yourselves to be decent and responsible people I expect you to delete all the comments which this Ba Maureen has made with respect to the Lozis. Iam disgusted not only by this bigot (Ba Maureen) but by your failure to censure him. Are you birds of the same feathers ?
and why should the police cancel an important event as Palm Sunday just because the Vice President is in the area…moreover, not because of any vice President but Catholic Vice President George Kunda??? these offices are making people become too big headed for nothing!!!
#9 Plain A4 Paper Who told you that everyone shares your st/up/id Christian beliefs? What the heck is Palm Sunday to a rational person or non-Christian? Why should the Barotse suspend their traditional practices for a foreign cultural practice? Kuomboka precedes your Christian beliefs. Dont impose your st/upid beliefs on others. #9 Your name says a lot. You are an empty head who has always supported Ba Maureens bigotry. You and your Maureen’s IQs are such that that no Barotse would employ as a herdman. Anyone who would look at your faces and the face of a Barotse cow would be able to tell that a Barotse cow is more intelligent than you two!
Nonsense.
#8 Shimaini, assuming that you understand the term mediocre, if we put it on a scale of 0 – 100% with 0%=good and 100%=mediocre, MMD would score 3% and PF 98%. You only have to look at some of the comments of PF cadres on matters of law. When they are challenged to read the law before they open their mouths, they will respond that reading is nonsense, it is for the so called “some of us”. When their leader was quoted supporting gay rights, first he denied it and now he claims that Chanda Chimba III only quoted 44 seconds out of the one hour interview. He has abandoned his ‘90 days more money in your pockets’ for a cut and paste manifesto. Even his former allies in the unions can see the mediocrity in PF. To crown it all this medicority is well documented in Namakando Memmbe’s Post.
# 1 ni # 9 mwakomokisa! ki butimbi?
# 13 you sound like a Zambian, it is shameful. And a number 13 has been used to present catastrophic outcomes. Human thought and action create the physical and noetic environments that produce chains of events and probable outcomes. Whatever terrible things which will definitely happen to that Barotse loyal boat, which of course looks better than the donkey Jesus rode when he was entering Jerusalem, where he never come out alive. Something in catastrophic disorder will happen in Western province before the end of this year, for they & MMD didn’t think of holiness of palm-sunday.
#19 Nostradumus. I think it is high time you went back to see your psychiatrist again. The prosaic is certainly not working. Have you started hearing voices and started seeing undefined shapes again?
#19
Palm Sunday just like Christmas has never been a Bible sanctioned Christian ceremony. It will never get you saved and that is a fact. Important things like baptism by immersion, keeping the Sabbath holy, observing the last supper, you have replaced these with the pagan traditions that you sneaked into the church. Now you even proclaim a disaster on the people of WP for what? Devilish hypocrites like you must have shame and not try to speak for God for it is clear that you speak for the devil.
#19 Nostrudumus
Palm Sunday just like Christmas has never been a Bible sanctioned Christian ceremony. It will never get you saved and that is a fact. Important things like baptism by immersion, keeping the Sabbath holy, observing the last supper, you have replaced these with the pagan traditions that you sneaked into the church. Now you even proclaim a disaster on the people of WP for what? Devilish hypocrites like you must have shame and not try to speak for God for it is clear that you speak for the devil. Next time be kind enough and spare us your id!ocy.
I love Barotseland and its culture. Surely, I miss Kuomboka my heritage. Uyoyange wino Lubosi. Yoooosho, Yoooosho, Yoooosho. Mangwe Molyange. Yoooosho, Yooooosho.
Qoute from a newspaper: “The local police command ordered them to cancel today’s Palm Sunday procession in view of security reasons bordering on Vice-President George Kunda’s presence in Mongu.”
Kwa haye..Lozis Lozis again, how can you respect George Kunda more than JESUS? I thought, it wasn’t such serious, you decide to line up for a Vice-president than lining up for Jesus. What shall we do to help the Lozis get more civilized? What is happening in Mongu can’t definitely happen in Copperbelt or even in Luapula province.
Yes we know Kuomboka is a pagan tradition, but why can’t you let civilized Catholics do their tradition too? Did you see how shallow that river was today, that Nalikwanda boat will not return… MWAMUKOLO!!!
Kuomboka was yesterday 16 April and Palm Sunday is today. They are two separate events Ba Maureen is free to attend Palm Sunday today. The Nalikwanda docked last evening safely. Yoooo Shoooow! Bana Sakata! Muyoyange wino wino! Mulena Mulimu atuse bana ba poho yensu ko bo inzi kaufela! Achichiii
#25 Mfumu. You must be a very sick person. Mental illness must run in your genes. How did Lozi’s respect George Kunda. Havent you read the reports you id/iot? Didnt Kunda go to Mongu with a batalion of your murderous Police Force? RB got scared to set foot in Barotseland. Ask yourself why you daft fool! Kunda’s motorcade has been speeding like a Formula one race car in the same province you are rubbishing. When did Kunda or RB go to Luapula or Copperbelt with a batallion of Police murderers in full riot gear? They have never. They are more afraid of Lozis than the cowards on the copperbelt or Luapula. Iwe if you have nothing to say learn to shut up! You must have a Bipolar condition because of your upside down manner of reasoning. Butt off you fcuking s/wine!
#25 Mfumu,What shallowness are you talking about,Do you know how deep that canal is?Dont be chaeted by your small TV Screen.Do you know that one of the criteria for setting a date for kuomboka is the water level.I guess you have never seen the kuomboka ceremony live.You go there next year and you will see for yourself how beautiful the ceremony is.Kuomboka is the best ceremony in the country.It cant be compared to the barbaric ceremonies in other parts of Zambia where men are made to lift the so called chiefs or where women dance half naked.
As for you Ka Maureen,Go and read your bible well.There is no where in the bible where christians are commanded to observe palm sunday.The only two sacraments commanded are Baptism and the Lord’s supper (breaking of bread).I know some churches have wrongly added the number to 7 which is wrong.We are told not to add or remove anything from the bible.So Maureen you learn to be reading the bible on your own,Dont bilieve everything you are taught.In the bible we are urged to search the scriptures and cling to what is true.Dont be too naive.
maureen go to hell with your sunday palm go and read your bible carefuly let pipo enjoy their traditional if you dont have one
Ba Maureen, what is so special about Palm Sunday? ( A day of Sun God) Mind your language you need prayers.