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Father Banyangadora refutes Watchdog story

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Priest Father Viatuer Banyangadora
Priest Father Viatuer Banyangadora

Deported Catholic Priest Father Viatuer Banyangadora has denied the story published by the Zambian Watchdog in which he is purported to have called President Michael Sata an arrogant dictator.

In a statement released to QFM News by Zambia Episcopal Conference Communications officer Mwenya Mukuka, Fr Banyangadora expresses surprise at the story attributed to him stating that he has never given an interview to any one or has he ever talked about President Sata since his deportation.

He says he has kept silent and will not comment on politics anywhere because that is not his mission, as his calling is about the Gospel.

Fr Banyangadora says he is convinced there are some malicious people behind such kind of stories who want to dirten his name because that is not his language.

He states that he can never say the things he is purported to have said about President Michael Sata.

He has challenged the Zambian Watchdog to state where and when they met him where he gave them the story.

Fr Banyangadora says there is no doubt that he is now in grave danger following the story published by the Zambian Watchdog

The Zambian Watchdog quoting unspecified Rwandan media on Wednesday published on its Website the story in which Fr Banyangadora is purported to have called President Sata a dictator who will not survive the 2016 general elections.

QFM

75 COMMENTS

  1. Father don’t be scared you called a spade a spade.When someone is arrogant thats what he is,if he can’t hear it from his citizens let him hear it from a foreigner like you.

    • but did he say it? why do you want to put words into someone’s mouth? just say them instead of fabricating stories. by the way. ZWD did not even quote where they got the story from. they have only said “according to Rwandan media” but which media?

  2. I KNEW AS A CHRISTIAN HE COULD NOT HAVE SAID THE ALLEGED WORDS. HE WOULDN’T SUNK SO LOW EVEN IF HE WERE AGRIEVED OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE. AT HE WOULD HAVE RESERVED HIS INTEGRETY AS A PRIEST. THIS CONFIRMS THAT ZWD IS SPONSORED BY MALICIOUS PEOPLE OF THE HH AND NEVERS MUMBA TYPE. BECAUSE EVEN WHEN NEVERS WAS A PRIEST I REALLY WONDER IF HE HAD ANY INTEGRETY AT ALL. MOST MEN OF TITHES LACK IT.

  3. This is very sad reading and we need the WD to come out clean. This type of journalism is putting the online media on trial and they need to come out clean. Providing checks and balance needs to be founded on the truth

  4. Father VB,us as zambian watchdog we get news frm pipo u dont know.if u think ist are LIE take us to court and u see how nacked u are and how good we are.ADVISE;Just think of the person u were telling what we published it can be in your HOUSE or on the ROAD or in CHURCH.

    • You have heard straight from the Horses mouth how come you have failed to publish what the Priest has said ba Watch ba Mbwa

  5. Disgraced Zambian Watch Dog – online publication sponsored by the UPND has been shamed pants down by this revelation from the man of God… this is what we always say about this Disgraced Editor at the watch dog, Loyd himoomba that he is fishing in a dry pond.. Their fake stories will not change peoples’ thinking about their HH.. Zambians are alive to the fact that this guy HH deosnt mean well to the politics of this country but to his ego! Thank you LT fo exposing lies of UPND AND ZWD.

  6. ZWD is not even close to a media. Its a whole bunch of frustrated tribalists who have ganged up to portray a wrong picture about Zambia. The following are the lies which ZWD has told and we are yet to see them happen:
    1. GBM to be appointed Vice President
    2. Chibamba Kanyama to refuse to become ZNBC director
    3. President Sata has cancer
    4. Israel bank governor to become Zambian bank governor
    5. Nkandu Luo to resign since she has been demoted to chief’s affairs minister
    6. Sata to fire Given Lubinda
    7. Barotseland to become a state

    • Sata hikes salary as UNZA students riot…Connection? ZWD be fair otherwise you will be doing more harm than good to yourselves. What goes round surely comes back. That’s why I like Fred, he does not need politicians to survive. He has survived the most hostile govts and now people alleging he’s surviving because of PF. PF may not be hostile to him but does not need them to survive. He survived HeftyJ, Survived RB, can survive anything without political backing. So ZWD leave Fred alone. he’s smarter than you!!! Long live Fred!!!!!

  7. There is no more credible online media in Zambia. I do not know who to believe now because all online media, Lusaka Times inclusive seem to promoting peronal agendas. But on face value I thought the language used in the story carried out on ZWD was abit crude to come from a priest. just thinking.

    • which Rwandan media? the article only said Rwandan media but which one? if ZWD editors are so good at cut and paste, why have they not done so in this article?

  8. The publishers and owners of ZWD could have been hung by their lying tongues if Zambia weren’t a functioning democracy.

  9. He has been advised to refute the story so as to make his deportation revocation much easier. In any case it’s not him who is refuting the story

  10. He has been advised to refute the story so as to make his deportation revocation much easier. In any case it’s not him who is refuting the story

  11. Chitulika Villager, why speak for ZWD, which Rwandan media? And by the way if you are credible media house, do just lift what others have written in their papers? Before, you publish anything you need to verify the facts.. That is a problem if you are used to coping-, grade 7 coping, grade 9 coping, grade 12 coping, college/University coping… You see now ZWD right now is skimming how do get out of this coping… they are simply a bunch of fools… PIPI, I agree with you 100%, these guys and their God father HH are all liers.

  12. These days it is very easy to record someone without their knowledge and the father knows that even a pen is a recorder so in his anger or disappointment he could have said something, maybe ZWD added salt to to the story but I doubt that the story is completely false. Just food for thought

  13. I have just read the article and it quotes “Rwandan media”. Zambian Watchdog is fond of cut and paste articles (sometimes they even provide links) but I wonder why they left out the name of this “Rwandan media”. I have tried to search by google and see if there is any publication called “Rwandan media” and I am very sure non of the Rwandans would be so dumb to call their publication “Rwandan media”. So let ZWD give us the real name of this “Rwandan media” otherwise, they are liars who are turning the government against a very innocent Fr. Banyangadora. But Zambians should not be surprised at the rate UPND’s bitterness has also affected their publications. 

  14. The watchdog is keeping everyone busy. u just love their wirk. with watchdod, pf will steal everything in  zambia. lusaka times can only respond to the popular watchdog

  15. Kwena ama website publications ubufi nipamushi. You must be very careful what you believe from these liars.

  16. Desperation, bitterness for electoral loss, Bemba-speaking people hatred: all these and more similar and worse vices have driven UPND-owned ZWD to stoop to the lowest levels of political debauchery.

  17. Baice, mukafwa imfwa ishibi! You insult people day in day out and you think you can easily hide behind an ip address!

  18. Who ZWD is a normal media? The ZWD is controlled by people with a hiden agender of pitting Zamians agaist Bembas and PF against the opposition. All theirstories are false and they deregister any person who writes the thruth on their web. Thats why I have stoped visiting it. ZWD is a very useless and tribal web site.

  19. Quite honestly for every Catholic this should come as a relief because in as much as our Priests preach social justice;p the uncouth lies peddled against Fr. Banyangadora are a No No!!
    ZWD get your facts straight and become competitive, don’t get used as Human shields of that Apostle of bitterness H.H

  20. And when I say the “educated” are the most frustrated and bitter people in Zambia after PF’s win; you say am a Kaponya. One would expect them to sit down, brainstorm the way forward; but they have come up with a hate campaign against PF and anyone who speaks Bemba. To them speaking Bemba is likened to being Bemba. To be honest ZWD has made a lot of enemies such that come 2016 it will be difficult to buy UPND manifesto. Yes they will win “online” votes as is the case; but we will instruct all our people, workers, that the vote goes Pa bwato; or any frog next to the boat.

    • You must be a kaponya! Anyone who praises the PF or Sata is a Kaponya who is blinded by their deceitful antics.

  21. JUST FOR INFORMATION BA ZWD, UMUNENU FOUNDER WA WEAKLIX IS ON THE RUN AND HOLED UP IN SOME EMBASSY IN THE UK. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE. YOUR DAYS WILL SOON BE NUMBERED.

  22. just few days ago we had an embecile calling ZWD a credible media and the moment i read the sentence in which this was mention i immediately stoped and scrolled down to the comments, a number of people agreed with me that, the fact that the so-called writter praised ZWD destroyed the entire article and made it very difficulty for some of us to believe anything he said. ZWD doesnt come anywhere near the word credible, its a media of falsehoods, they have lied many times, proven lies, and just few months ago their editor haachakuti was made to pay damages for defamation of character by our courts. i go there just to see what lies they are peddling, they have blocked me from comenting cause i used to write the truth which they hated.

  23. Lusaka Times must be well advised to refrain from negativeloy flagging controversial stories that are published by its sister online publications. Otherwise the reading public will be forced to critically scrutinise the real propriators and intensions that “Lusakatimes” harbours with regards to items published by other well-meaning online media services. It is high time we saw and witnessed a rich diversity of news publications. Hence there is no need to promote the muzzling of news dissermination. Lusakatimes must learn to respect news provided by “zambianwatchdog”.

    • ati well meaning media? go to school and get straight with your thinking. what well meaning media tolerates tribal hate and insults? look at the comments of Lusaka Times and compare with the insults and hate speech on Zambian Watchdog. Should the media protect itself even when it promotes division among Zambians? Ba Mphangwe get to school and learn some civilization and advise the owner of Zambian Watchdog to behave like someone who is civilized.

    • People are always insulting at ZWD so really is this professionalism. HH why has tribalism specifically hatred for bembas consumed you to the bone? why?

    • I think we should be objective in our comments. Insults and tribal politics are on both LT and ZWD. It’s the bloggers that are tribal and I have a measured approach to articles on both the online publications. However not everything is in good faith but I do think the ZWD does “break” a few headlines stories that end up to be true. I.e. UNZA riots, both presidential pay rises etc. 

  24. Competitive online media houses must refrain from open attacks on controversial stories that are published by sister news media. Lusakaltimes may be seen to crucify zambian watchdogs in the eyes of the PF regime. It is high time we saw and witnessed a rich diversity of news publications. Hence Lusakatimes must learn to respect news provided by its online publication.

  25. No one is saying the media cannot disagree with the PF government. but when media mixes with mediocrity, people have a right to complain. Zambian Watchdog has promoted hatred among Zambians. The editor is an irresponsible dude who thinks by publishing false stories and insults, he will be more popular and promote his party UPND. In most of the countries in Europe, you can’t just publish something without being made answerable to it. Even journalists practice their profession within certain ethics. The carelessness with which ZWD has been operating is an aberration of civility. I would be the first person to pop champagne should the owners of this website be found and made answerable for the many falsehoods they have published.

  26. so tu tamba mbwa have decided to block me,am not guy scott like you purpoted during elections imwe ba kuwe.usless Tonga site.

  27. Useless media Watchdog, 13 mwalandafye bwino. These tongas are there to destroy
    PF, but the fact is that they will never rule, for the rest of the existance. Ba ingombe ileede
    for sure, who only have one province.

  28. Sadly unethical keyboard tapping clowns at the Watchpig HQ will carry on as if nothing ever happened as this outfit has never seen the inside of a Journalism classroom.

  29. ZWD is useless. Imagine I often visit their website specifically to tell them about their lies and hate reporting, but they block me. All they publish are comments from anti- BEMBA and anti-PF BLOGGERS. ZWD is really an *****ic publication propelled by *****s.

  30. we want toknow what made the government send him home….is it of what he said or what he is doing,but one thing i know he was mmd sympathiser

  31. “Fr Banyangadora says there is no doubt that he is now in grave danger following the story published by the Zambian Watchdog”. In grave danger from? Is this confirmation that he did say what ZWD wrote about him? And ZEC, how do we verify your story seeing that you have chief cadre and mulamu Telesphore in your ranks?

  32. I love ZWD, gives news to balance the stories from other media in Zambia. If ZWD tells lies Mumembe’s Post is 1000 times worse.

    • Keep reading ZWD and burry your head in the sand. Biased reporting so embarrasing. Go into the compounds, take a survey of how many people read ZWD…As long as they are selling on the streets they are happy! Minimum wage, they are happy. Re-allignment, some villagers happy! While you blog endlessly about non issues. Power to the masses! Take note, not to bloggers! Ha. 2016 will be nice. Sata hikes salary as unza students riot…Whats the connection? Sata off to Mozambique, big delegation (you dont even mention a figure like 80 or 200!) You call that balanced? Useless online paper. Keep loving your ZWD!!! And reap accordingly.

  33. You’ve made a few respectable items right now there. My partner and i searched on the web for the issue and located most people go along with with your site.

  34. It is very interesting to see how others blame ZWD and link ZWD to UPND…! As Zambians we need to look at the Govt that react from a media story. On other hand a Priest and a man of God has a pastoral duty and right to air out what people talk about in silent voices. The act of the Govt stand questionable if it is discovered that they interogated an innocent man for being upright, or for rummers from a private media. The bible says, ‘ thy shall not touch a man of God…..! and for Father the bible says, ‘Blessed are when people prosucute you for my sake……!

    As Zambians we need to go behind the true story; and the security wing should act professionally when executing instructions from the top; this is a Country for good governance where people should have access to Justice

    • Let him just go to the farm and keep his animals. To the rule animals, is simple than woman being. He can’t even rule he is too childish.

  35. # 6 Gondwe how can you say Tonga Dogs? Not all Tongas associate themsemselves with the ZWD. Wamukunda nyoko nu mubwa yebo.

  36. I want to ask the owners of chambishi metals, is these man could lumbwe his he fit to be general manager of chambishi metals? If u the owners you will say yes that means you are also dail. I’m saying so because that man is not a meteragist he is a mechanical engineer . What does he know about the mine. Owner open your eyes before your mine collapse. He has even frustrated who was able to be general manager to resign and join another company in Congo

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