Matero MP Miles Sampa attended a Sunday Church Service at the Bible Gospel Outreach Church in Africa (BIGOCA) in Matero which was the scene of violent attacks during Black Friday prayers.
Mr. Sampa who is also Commerce, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister apologized to BIGOCA Bishop Peter Ndhlovu for the Friday chaos.
“I came here to say am sorry for the fracas on Friday. I could have prevented it if I had prior information but I was totally unaware,” Mr. Sampa said.
He told congregants that the unruly youths had no blessings from the party leadership.
“I wish to distance our party from the violence that happened in this place on Friday. We respect people’s rights to assemble and no one should be allowed to take away that right from anyone.”
Mr. Sampa further said the public is encouraged to debate the issue of the removal of subsidies on fuel and maize.
[pullquote]“I wish to distance our party from the violence that happened in this place on Friday. We respect people’s rights to assemble and no one should be allowed to take away that right from anyone.”[/pullquote]
“Government does not have the monopoly of wisdom. This Government is a listening Government, we shall listen to the views of the people. Feel free to debate this issue without fear,” Mr. Sampa said.
The area MP also donated Kr 20,000 to BIGOCA’s initiative of taking care of the aged in Matero Township.
And BIGOCA Presiding Bishop Peter Ndhlovu said his church will remain nonpartisan but will not refuse to pray for politicians.
“We have always said we are nonpartisan and nothing will change that. We will continue praying for this nation and its leadership. We have already forgiven those youths.”
He added, “They did not physically harass me. When they stormed the Church, I just sat there watching them. I didn’t run away. They approached me and they said aba niba mudala (this is our old man) and I know some of those boys who came here.
Yeah man ! It is difficulty to control our youths.But sh*t happens.
This man has been the culprit in the distribution of the funds that have led to ill advised mobilization of the projects unwarranted such as Zambian Railways
All in all too ambitious, who personal interest is his own corollary
You want to know what is wrong with your country here is palpable culprit who will be defended of course by nonsensical people here who are unwashed masses and fail to comprehend a given data
My fiance thinks we are doomed, difficult to argue with him
Thanks
Can ACC & DEC please step in and investigate,,, …two important things here mwe!
(a) Is that a bribe to shut up the church or the black friday movement??
(b) The source of the Kr20000,, is it from the missing eurobond money from zambia railways?
Junior Clown Sampa
But he still came with PF thugs body-guards to church. Tapaba umwaiche uwatumpa nga Miles Sampa and Mulenga Sata, are they relatives?
What is so hard about the President making a clear statement to condemn these “difficulty” to control youths?
Ever since the fracas at George Kunda’s funeral, “his excellency” has silently endorsed this behavior!
@mushota
Keep your statements simple.
You try to use big words and end up writing rubbish. Your comment is incomprehensible.
It seems every government comes with its own way of institutionalising corruption. The PF way is this culture of ministers (who are supposed to have ordinary salaries) donating huge sums of money IN THEIR PERSONAL CAPACITY to the poor or to church organisations. Can the source of such donations be made public in every instance please? Without any doubt, this money is just a drop in the sea of huge sums cashed in from corrupt practices. TIYE NAZO SAMPA, THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT IS DRAWING CLOSER!!
We will make the PF Government to dance to our tune, because of some wrong elements in the ruling party and their Sata.
The president should address the nation without any further delay and denounce the violence.
After crying out loud you have now received ka Kr20,000. Ba bishop che!
ACC should follow the sources of that K20million donated. This is pure corruption. The church and victims should end the case in court, they deserve better compensation than K20million.
Even K20million to individuals victims of beating isn’t enough. Kabimba has to sweat to clean up the mess in PF.
No wonder the high rate at which churches are mushrooming up… GREED AND DECEIPT IN THE NAME OF GOD? MUKAKANDWA BAPOMPWE!
This sort of behavior should never be allowed to happen again. All political parties should be held liable for their youths. Elo they should do away with these carders only until general elections. Why do these people to have welcome the president or any other minister ku airport. In the case of HH they even go with him ku court. This brings security challenges to the security forces. The problem pa zed especially within politics is that people have too much time lazying about doing nothing. Too much sleeping sickness.
Have to….grammar erros..syntax error lol
some talking real talk
That was the motive behind Ndlovu ‘s utterances,he chewed most of late Chiluba’s stolen money.Now that he has been oiled ,let him shut up.He should be praying for the country so there are no more accidents and Homos.But he knows where the money is at. Hypocrite you will burn in hell.
“…and I know some of those boys who came here…” He should identify them on condition that he refunds the Kr20,000.
Is that American flag in the background? if its the one then something is wrong with this church, why not put Zambian flag?
dollar sign!!!,,waibala mbwanji!!!
@Mushota. There was an interesting debate on Bill Gates and our own Dambisa Moyo on her book ‘Dead Aid’. Dambisa has a PHD in economics and has worked in the World Bank and other entities in high profile positions.
Mushota, a lot of bloggers were calling on you to contribute as the debate was intellectually advanced but you were ziiiii! You have been pursuing your Phd degree for a decade now and one assumes you are well versed with high profile figures’ debates in the area of economics. But you were conveniently quiet.
You are a masquerader, a pretender and a sham Mushota!
NI GO’NGA MFANA UYO NAIMWE…JUST FORGIVE “HER” FOR DAY-DREAMING
These PF leaders are sick, when the first report of the attacks was made it clearly said the criminal PF thugs arrived in hired buses. Who hired the buses, for sure those hungry thugs cannot even afford to hire a wheelbarrow, so who hired the buses, was it Miles Sampa?
The bishop has identified the thugs. There is no longer a mystery as to their identity.
Cheap politics. That is why this country will never develop.
I wonder how big the donation would have had to be to “forgive those youths” and make it alright if someone had been killed by the PF’s terrorists?
GBM has already bought a convent (….who says religion and politics don’t mix?)
i saw this coming..ati bishop very corrupted to the core. uyu chi..ka.la alitemwa indalama nshamonapo. yesu bwela bwangu epo abana bobe tabalaipayana
“I came here to say am sorry for the fracas on Friday. I could have prevented it if I had prior information but I was totally unaware,” Mr. Sampa said. Though loosely attached two things are deducible here – that Sampa knows the suspected youths and that the same youths have been involved in some mischievous act in the past.
“They approached me and they said aba niba mudala (this is our old man) and I know some of those boys who came here,”said Bishop Ndlovu.Can the two help Police with investigations since the suspects are are clearly known.
WHAT HE OMITTED TO SAY ” … I came here to say am sorry that after stealing so much of your tax money, and sharing it with my coleagues to fulfill our own needs, this is all that I COULD SPARE FOR YOU AS A CONSOLATION FOR LAST WEEK’S VIOLENCE, AND FOR YOU TO REMEMBER ME IN 2016…”
SO!
This guy Ndhlovu knows the perpetrators…….?? Surely the next step is obvious to Libongani? And also to the people attacked?
The bishop ndhlovu says it with pride that the thugs decided to not harm him. As if those that were harmed deserved it for not being “ba Mudala”.
Ladies & gentlemen, we have a witness who can identify the culprits who came to terrorise the people who had congregated in the church on Friday. And why didn’t they beat him up and only said “Aba niba Mudala wesu” ? Does this mean that he is one of them PF cadres ? Or was it the dollar signs in his eyes that mad him forget about Fridays horror of beatings that were leashed out on innocent people ? The ACC should investigate why Sampa has chosen this particular time to “donate” money to the same church, where people were terrorised barely two days ago? SHAME ON THAT PASTOR AS WELL !! BEING BOUGHT LIKE A CHEAP WHORE !!!!!
These chaps behind Miles re known thugs from Chingwere in Matero…….
“Niba Mudala wesu”. (He’s one of us)
“If I had prior information I would ve stopped it”. ( He knew the thugs before the brutal action and after)
Mmmmm, food for thought. Would it be a quite a stretch if one said Bishop Ndhlovu and Miles Sampa planned this attack to fix the perceived enemies of PF? Was the Bishop used to lure innocent people in a death trap?
What about the cash donation? Was it a “well done” thumbs up so that Ndhlovu smiles all the way to the bank? Today’s service was a thanks giving and victory party for Bishop Ndhlovu and MP Miles Sampa.
Come on all you conspiracy theorists, something doesn’t add up here!
“Was the Bishop used to lure innocent people in a death trap?” Dear Lwiidni, Fear God. May God have mercy on you on your eccentric satanic outbursts.
Good analysis! It makes perfect sense. This was a planned scheme between the bishop and Miles. How else would things have happened as they did? Only problem is, they opened their mouths and spilled the beans – at least to those of us who read between the lines
My sober message to Mile is simply this: – Fear God. I hope for your sake you meant what you said and you are genuinely remorseful. You can f.0oL people but you cannot f.o0L God your creator. When torn between a rock and a hard place, choose God. I hope that’s what you have done. You will do well to remember this simple message. You are still young and still have an entire future ahead of you.
No this high rate at which churches are mushrooming up… GREED AND DECEIPT IN THE NAME OF GOD? MUKAKANDWA BA POMPWE, LOLELENI!!
SORRY: “No WONDER…”
The pf guys are rich! Which ever church they go to they donate thousands of kwacha! Thank God they have accepted its their unruly youths that beat up worship. Non of them is fit for hell so God should forgive them.
ba bishop,why receiving the money from Mr Sampa?It is not in good faith,the man does not mean well.
Sampa is guilty as charged, He is literally bribing the Church goers, trying to buy back some integrity and not even promising to use his authority to bring the culprits to book.
@Cactus. Your threats of hail sulphur and brimstone won’t work for me mate. The glee with which the good Bishop received the generous cash donation as a result of a “good hiding” of his colleagues two days earlier, is bizarre and leaves much to be desired. His self cleansing of “I wasn’t touched”( because ni Mudala wesu ) and “just sat there” watching the brutal altercation, means he had no motivation to intervene to save his friends because of a hidden agenda.
Miles Sampa publicly offered the K10,000 apparently as compensation for the fracas, the Bishop should have publicly rejected it and advised Miles to instead donate to Matero’s old people’s homes as a subsidy for mealie meal.
This is what the Bishop and his friends were praying for, isn’t it?
Lwiindi, you raise a good point that hadn’t occurred to me. If the thugs showed deference to the bishop, why didn’t he take the opportunity to plead with the thugs on behalf of the other congregants?
He is their ‘mudala’ and any compassionate person would have straight away said something to the effect of “balumendo, ifi tafi weme. Na papata lekeni”
Even if they wouldn’t have listened to him, it would be on record that he tried – most ordinary people who aren’t bishops would.
I think Miles Sampa is the only PF leader who had shown maturity and appologized. I don’t like PF but I applaud Sampas move. Sakeni can learn a thing or two from Sampa. I wonder what Sata will say now he has the excuse that he is not I’m the country despite technological advancements that can enable him to send an electronic message of appology and condemnation of his militia
Guys lets get rid of this government please!!
Accepting that money sends to Government a message that they can bride their way into the Kingdom of God. To re-enforce the displeasure echoed by the church in the aftermath of the violence, Bishop Ndholvu should have declined to receive the money. Sampa knows, who the culprits are and should not stand at the pulpit proclaim ignorance. Boza na mu Church monse. Lesa akamikanda.
Embarrassing to see such Rubbish, When we thought Zambia would change for the Good. What a Country with no leaders condemning such behaviors.
THAT WAS MORE SINFUL THAN WILLIAM BANDA USED TO DO , AT LEAST HE DID NOT DO IT IN A CHURCH