With the above title I go where no one dares. As I begin to write on a topic too accursed for me to undertake, I am cognizant of the countless taboos that exist amongst us, some which are the reason for our stagnation. I know religious clerics will cry foul and banish me to Gehenna for discussing the president’s health at the height of prayers for his quick recovery. Elders will question my moral campus and express total discontent at my lack of commiseration for the head of state. That’s how they have wired our brains and consciousness. Muteness is our imprint.
Since I belong to a culture that prohibits the disparaging of a leader in a condition such as the one our president is in, I shall be careful not to break any taboos and appear like a stubborn dolt deserving supernatural imprecation. Also, since Zambia is a Christian nation with the majority of the people devoted to the word of God, I shall be careful how I quote the Holy Bible.
Why is this happening to President Sata?
The cardinal question is; “Is God sending a message?” This question can be relayed in various ways; “Why is this happening to President Sata at this point in time?” “Is this some kind of punishment for something we don’t know?”
These are off-limits questions in Zambia, and yet they are looming in the president’s echo chamber as he finds himself in the vale of infirmity. They are on our minds too. When we see president Sata looking physically weary and emotionally drained to the extent of failing to execute his daily duties, we are bombarded by the same questions. We worry because of the person he is. He is our leader—the chosen one; our “dealer in hope.”
We must not also forget that he is an ordinary man, of flesh and of character, who, like the rest of us has his own demons. But, unlike us, his demons are special because God chose him to lead us and therefore it is on his headship and character we depend.
On September 23, 2011, Sata became our president. It was in God’s glorious name that he swore not only to lead, but to love, and nurture us, his people. On this historic day, looking fuller and vivacious, he held the Holy Bible and pronounced the sacred words “so help me God,” and God’s will was done. The only thing Sata’s rivals could do was to succumb and leave everything in God’s hands.
A- Sata pledged to rule in accordance with the 10 commandments and then broke them
Two days later, Sata, indebted to God for his victory, attended a church service at St. Ignatius Catholic Church. It was on these sacred grounds that he pledged to rule the country in accordance with the Ten Commandments, which include “Thou shalt not steal,” “Do onto others as you would like them to do unto you,” “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” and “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
When he made this pledge some of us knew he was driven by ecstatic gratitude. He did not understand the magnitude of God’s laws. As simple as they may sound, the Ten Commandments are hard laws. Breaking them is asking for unquenchable pain in hell. As soon as his reign burgeoned he began to break the very laws he promised and imposed rules of retaliation—an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, foot for foot, and discarded the moral imperative “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
It would be inappropriate of me to claim the afore-stated is the reason Sata is going through trials and tribulations. But surely things have happened pretty fast for him not to imagine so. In less than three years he is unable to diligently conduct his duties as republican president.
B- Sata messed with the Shilubemba
On May 21, 2014, we could not believe what we saw; a president so frail. Pictures showed a pallid, whey-faced, and emaciated Sata. His sight was such a shocker it prompted one blogger to veer from the topic and write “don’t mess na ba shilubemba.” This was in reference to Sata’s rejection of the Bemba Traditional Council’s choice of Henry Sosala as Paramount Chief Chitimukulu, a man Sata referred to as a “fake chief.”
Of all the comments I read that day, the one above struck me most. I was afraid there were a lot of people out there stooping as low as the blogger. To these highly superstitious people it is more than a coincidence that the president’s physicality should puncture at the height of the Chitimukulu impasse. Let me spend a bit more time on this topic so I am not misunderstood or accused of a heinous crime.
It is common knowledge that all tribes in Zambia believe there exists mystical powers that spirits and ancestors use to control, punish deviants, misfits, and pariahs in their environs. Millions of villagers, illiterates, many culturists, and the learned like the blogger, are in a diabolical pact with supernatural powers. In as far as they are concerned tampering with the Bemba chiefdom is playing with fire. People such as the blogger are likely to misconstrue the president’s health issues as a punishment meted by the spirits of the ancestors.
C- Bad Karma, Sata ridiculed late President Levy Mwanawasa calling him cabbage
Other bloggers, the antipathetic ones, see the president’s prostration as chastisement by God for his iniquities; for the way he insulted, ridiculed, scorned, and derided his foes in his fight for ultimate power. Many bloggers and columnists are now reminding him of the dreadful way he treated the late Levy Mwanawasa, reaping a cabbage before a crowd of his supporters as a demonstration of Mwanawasa’s mental status and inability to rule. This one act alone is seen by many as the wickedest and most heartless deed worth catastrophic karma.
D – Sata embraces the name King cobra- an evil serpent
Also, the president is known for his belligerent and antagonistic style of politics. It is such a reputation that earned him the nickname King Cobra—the serpent of Zambian politics. Not a very good title since the serpent is portrayed in the Holy Bible as a symbol of evil power and chaos. And yet Sata embraced it.
Zambians imposed the name on him not in praise, but because he was vengeful and vindictive. This stemmed from the way he delivered defensive bites to his unwitting foes. They included Kenneth Kaunda, late Frederick Chiluba, late Mwanawasa, Rupiah Banda, late George Kunda, Edward Mumbi, Sebastian Zulu, and countless others who dare stand in his way or cross his path.
E- Sata messed with the Catholic church
He even went after the clergy. In April this year, he threatened to “sort out” Chipata Catholic Diocese Bishop George Lungu for staging prayers for the release of the constitution. Two years prior, he had ordered the deportation of a Rwandese Catholic priest based in Lundazi. Many people in the Christian circles are inclined to think God is holding him accountable for his actions just like He does with all of us.
Is God sending Sata a message?
So, is God sending a message? This question was astutely addressed by one blogger who wrote: “God is worried Sata is leading us in the wrong direction. He is abusing the powers He has given him. He is perpetuating violence and anarchy. He is causing divisions by promoting tribalism among a united people. He is using his position to enrich himself and his family. God has weakened him so that he does not cause further destruction. He is better the way he is because when he is strong he is havoc.” There are worse comments.
But say what you may, the onus is on the president himself. There is no better person to answer this question than him. One thing he must know is it is God who is making it difficult for him to rule. God who has entrusted him with 14 million peace-loving people is trying to tell him something. Maybe redemption will come when the president tells us what we want to hear—the truth, nothing but the truth. Maybe there is something beyond this, a need for restitution for the wrong; perhaps a radical turn from one part of life to another; or unconditional surrender to God as Sovereign. We don’t know.
Thank God we have been assured by the president’s wife that he is fine. This is perhaps the best time for him, not his wife, to address us, his people, on television, and if indeed he is ill, be transparent about it. Let me quote from the Proverbs 6:16-19:
“There are six things that the LORD strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”
I shall stop here. How I wish I could replace my name so the article reads “written by Evangelist Bill Graham, or Bishop T.D. Jakes, T.B. Joshua, or Pope Francis, that way it may carry more weight and become food for thought for president Sata. Unfortunately, I am just a writer who throws words around in the hope some stick.
By Field Ruwe
That is a very difficult question to answer as I/we am/are not God thus I/we cannot judge others on why certain calamities befall them.
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I would also like to add the following verses brethrens
New International Version
Matthew 7:2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
OR
Matthew 7:2
New Living Translation
For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.
This is a good opportunity for Sata to repent before God and the people of Zambia not forgetting the Shilubemba( just covering all bases!) I think God will restore him to favour if he does that and who knows the next 2 years can turn out really good for PF.But if he continues living under fear of Fred Mmembe and the cartel,continue lying to Zambians then he will be a cautionary tale for future Zambians leaders and his name will by synonymous with a curse.
Of course. Ati “I will rule by the ten commandments”. And yet you have done a “Don’t Kubeba” n the people that elected into office as president. God cannot be mocked. “You reap what you sow”.
(1) You lie on the constitution – hence breaking one of the ten commandment
(2) You lie on more money in your pockets
(3) You lie on the BRA just to win the votes
(4) You’re confrontational with bashilubemba, catholics, opposition
(5) You are brutalising the opposition, no freedom of assembly
(6) You insulting your own ministers and mps as ifipuba, usel.ess, etc.
(7) You train a militia of youths to brutalise the opposition and anyone found in wrong books with PF
(8) No sympathy for the people who brought into office, by removing subsidies on mealie meal, fuel, cost of living high,…
Example is that of FTJ MHSRIP. Ati “Zambia is a christian nation” and yet in the middle of the night whilst Zambians are sleeping, the little guy is busy externalising Zambia’s meagre financial resources.
The rest is history. Need not say more….
I hope others can learn from some of our past leaders.
MHSR in Pain- FTJ about HIM everything was Short.
MHSR in Peace-Mwanawasa was blessed with wisdom to rule Zambia not until they killed him.
SATA- Sometimes God gives a hardhearted individuals to the nation that does not fear him. Rember! Egypt. Rotten teeth everything is rotten.
Excellent article, Mr Ruwe. If only Sata can read it and draw some lessons from it.
One of Sata’s worst mistakes was that of standing in Church before God and the whole world to proclaim he would rule by the ten commandments. He followed this up by rebuking a priest who suggested that corrupt people should be forgiven. This, rudely done in the middle of a sermon. Sata made a covenant he had no intention of keeping. Sata has become the most divisive president Zambia ever had. He has literally broken all the ten commandments, promoted tribalism and corruption and destroyed a whole economy in three short years. Now he is facing God’s wrath for breaking the solemn covenant he had no intention of honouring. How ironic that the very voice he used to make his vows to God should be taken away from him. God truly works in mysterious ways! I hope this acts as a lesson to all,…
You can not mess with the Catholic church,The Shilubemba,the Ten commandments,the voters and come out unscathed! But it’s been quite peaceful without Sata. Lets enjoy this unexpected blessing.
@Buupe, indeed it has been rather peaceful without Sata; thank heavens for small mercies. My only worry is what is happening behind the scenes in his absence? All these thieves, the Chikwandas, Sichingas, Kambwilis, Nsandas must be making hay while the sun shines. With their boss literally incapacitated, these thieves especially Chikwanda are reportedly stashing away millions all over the world.
Yes, Zambia is accursed, in fact long before Sata became president although he has been very instrumental in ensuring that Zambians suffer to the maximum because he held key positions under Kaunda and Chiluba, the most brutal of former presidents.
The people have been hoodwinked into believing that Zambia was being governed humanely under ‘the philosophy of humanism and the ten commandments’.
Yes everything stated above could be true and who knows, this could be the source. But its never too late to make situation right. Come back to God and say am sorry for this and that. Jesus will definitely forgive you and you will be on his right hand side.
AMEN.
Sata is actually luck that he still alive. This is the time for him to repent and make peace with all Zambians and his creator. Others were just collapsing unexpectedly.
Nebugadneza the greatest king. We wish our president the best. We dont have money for bye elections every year
Field Ruwe, a doctoral student! What thrash? You mean a doctoral student can produce this kind of thesis extract which is based on blog instincts of some creatures? As a matter of fact this Field Ruwe, is behind all the comments that depict our president as bad. You can read between lines that the likes of spook Wanzelu, Ndobo, Wantanshi, Obatala, London Eye, Le grand Wazabanga, Skeleton, Sido Mark, Lungowe, Siamanengo and many others are schooled by one Field Ruwe.
Whey leave me out iwe?? I feel insulted!!!
@Umubemba Inkonko,
It’s people like you who are making Sata’s situation worse and worse by the day because you are so brainwashed that you have stopped thinking independently due to blind loyalty. Are you sure you can’t see anything wrong with Sata’s weird behaviour?
Well, I can’t blame you because even his wife thinks her husband is sane and well.
@Dudelove,
Ha ha ha, I love that.
@Umubemba Inkonko, Lol wansekesha. As for me I don’t even know Field Rume, but I think on this article, he has written sense.
What has been commented by the guys you mentioned is a true reflection of the feelings of many Zambians about Sata. So @Umubemba Inkonko, just “come on the right side of the fence” and come back to reality. All is not well in Zambia because of PF and Sata.
Hey, I also feel insulted that you left me from that list. Mr Ruwe has just put across our views in the most lucid way possible.
Well written words : Food for thought for Sata and would be president.
This article is the most rubbish I have ever read on LT. The writer is showing great dullness, contradictions of himself when he quotes Proverbs 6 v 16-19 against Sata while he himself ” is a false witness breathing out lies” gathered from ZWD. Shame on this guy really… he has no independent thought of his own but has based all his useless article on unsubstantiated truth.
Dear Ruwe , you must be ashamed as a PHD student to write an article which has no empirical evidence what so ever. Shame on you.
Ichishinka chamikola lelo, just like your, kaaaa!
@ Truth Hates, I concur with you. Ruwe lies and exaggerates especially when it comes to Sata. It makes me conclude that he is connected to ZWD. Those who take everything that Ruwe writes as gospel truth have the same agenda as him and ZWD.
This spiteful character who masquerades as a Phd candidate as if this is a title anywhere in the world claims that Sata has broken the very commandments he promised to govern by. Yet he does not even give one example of how Sata has broken the ten commandments. Looking at the title of the so called article and the rubbish therein, this deserves a grade of a C-. Ruwe should remain a perpetual PhD candidate as he cannot substantiate the claims he makes. I even wonder which reputable university can give a doctorate to a character who writes so poorly!
RUWE walasa,only FOOLS can disagree with the post above.I don’t hate Sata but his actions.Let him repent and atlease resign to enjoy a few miniutes left of him to Live
Not a good article. Quite biased and based on ZWD comments. No empirical evidence – I agree with @ Truth Hates.
The article has no substance really some one said the writer is a PHD student? If so then you can see the problem we have in this country surely.
@Evans,
Surely you can’t just say ‘the article has no substance’ and end there without detailing where in the article Field Ruwe has told a lie. Actually you and the rest of PF cadres know that these are hard facts which of course are too embarrassing for you to admit.
Just be objective and sincere for once.
Sata has proved to all of us that advanced age doesn’t always mean wisdom. Sata has demonstrated quite convincingly that he is the real under 5. His actions and words completely confirm that he is bereft of any wisdom. You have to be retarded to poke fun at sick people but Sata did this on numerous occasions gleefully. I mean even if you are immortal can you derive happiness from making fun of sick people? For me just this one aspect of his inhuman behaviour convinced we have an unbalanced person in charge of our affairs.
This gives everyone time to search themselves. We should not vote by feelings, we need to analyse every word that comes out of the mounth of these politcians. One day, we shall appreciate Ruwe’s writings just like Chanda Chiimba worned us. Ruwe’s article worns many poeple not to take God for a mere friend you can joke and drible about. “He who has ears late him hear what the spirit says”. “God will never destroy his poeple before worning them”. He sent a worning through Chanda Chimba but our hearts were hardened like stone. Now the plague is falling on us.” Our God please forgive us and give us a second chance for you are love,Amen.”
so Ruwe is watchdog i don:t know which country is he from sounds like a personal thing.
What you write about others, one day yes one day others will be writing about you now consider if some one could research your life , your life and the mistakes you have made in the past . I don’t think you are better than him maybe you are even worse , it is enjoyable to slander your neighbours but when they do the same you cry
Why argue with an opinionated article. We live in the dream land where people hallucinate. when something is not ok, we should not pretend that all is well. We need the quality leadership that we have been promised. it long since we last heard from the farther of this country. is he an absent farther? I for one have been disappointed with the manner in which this country is being governed. there is no way we entrust this country in the hands of old people who think whatever they do is correct. it pains me when see and hear brilliant young men and women support the wrong things old people are doing. Please! open your eyes and see what is good and bad for this country. If as youths were to be organised, we can make a difference. They started ruling as youths and are still here. we need room.
Dont mess with Abena Ng’andu .
Field Ruwe, What are you smoking…?
Over and above human principalities, there is God who watches. Throughout human history, it has been that way. Our politicians, mostly out of ignorance, traverse the holy ground with their shoes on. To them, God is that small or that he doesn’t care what happens. But he does. And He is not that small. He speaks for himself and can show His displeasure when he wants to. Mr. Sata, like do most of us, owes God an apology.
Why for instance, would he want to be the liar he has turned himself to be? Why should that be the legacy he leaves behind? Even wicked king Ahab of old, is said to have “humbled himself before God.” So did stubborn king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, after he had abdicated his throne for seven years due to insanity. Repent, Mr. Sata, repent!
Repent Mr. Sata, and give the Zambian people the constitution you promised them. You can’t afford to lie yourself all the way to the grave. You have disappointed millions who once trusted you.
You still cannot get over the fact that this man is president today…trauma runs deep in some people. Sad.
i have liked the last comment where you said you wish you hard changed your name. why? it is because you know that you have never said anything good of the president and his government in general and you have realised that people have seen this. Mr Ruwe are you telling me that there is nothing good mr sata has done in his life? it is this peceiption you have that makes the president and people like me not to believe you even if what you say is 100% collect. And you always sound to be upnd is that true?
Forget about being UPND. The article speaks for itself.
Some people want to appear like they are more holy than others. Just repent your sins. Each one will carry his load and be answerable to God. Relationship with God is private.
Dude love and Zed patriot, you feel insulted by leaving you out of a list of bad eggs? I can’t be supprised because you live in the fools paradise where every thing that is abnormal in the rational world that we live in is normal in yours. As for you Legrand Wazabanga, if the fools paradise was the only habitable place for humans on earth, I would rather seek refuge in the animal kingdom. Some animals are very friendly and kind.
Muli ch1pubia fye kabili muli shilu ba mudala. You reason diagonally just because you are a beneficiary of panga family misrule. Shame on you.
Finito.
Sata the New Nebuchadenzar you will “eat grass the way the Babylonian did”.
Lying is natural BUT the way u lied ba Cobra !! Life is VERY INTERESTING, u ve done alot of evil in short time of your Presidency.NATURAL JUSTICE has its own way of handling these issues.
By the way how can a NORMAL person build 2 UNIVERSITIES in ONE Region & at a goal, nangu nibu fontini bufontini bwa so sure-blatant NEPOTISM. You ve crushed TOO MANY SPIRITS even those within your tribal Circles BUT its only tht THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO. We r Christian Brothers & Sisters & we get hurt.
My God Loves Zambia- !! Viva New Blood Viva UPND.
You have hit the nail on the head brother.
Where is Mushota kanshi? He must write and show his/her love for the Prohibited Fossils.
The Spirits of Senior Chief Nkula of the Bemba people of Chinsali will definately haunt you for what you did. How do you evict a Chjef from the Palace?Chanda Chimba will be remembered.
CHANDA CHIMBWIIII is a Hero
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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Romans 11:17
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root.
Saulosi and Mushota will not comment on this one. Their fossil is exposed. The devil has been caged.
Field Lunatic has missed the point. There is no sin or godly punishment is sickness. We are all fallible and vulnerable. Sata is greatest thing that happened to Zambia. Even if he rules for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 10 years, Zambia will never be the same again. This is discernible for all who wish to see and not blind people sitting on the fence in the loneliness of America. Come home and participate in building the country with Sata. It is people like you who run away from problems who are a curse to Africa. Armchair critics speaking borrowed English. Sata is helping to transform Zambia in a positive way.
Well and good mr ruwe but u miss the point – I beg to move the Motion: God HAS sent a clear message to zambians, as embodied in the psychic and bodily turmoil of one MCS – WE WERE GULLIBLE TO THE HILT AND NOW IT’S PAYBACK, WITH PUNITIVE INTEREST !!
In 50 years of Independence the average zambian has NOT seen through the veil of humanism or UBUNTHU according to all the political parias we have adored; LPM was the last peek we got into a righteous and prosperous future, ALL ONE STRONG AND FREE ! No one MCS promised to do THE WORK out of poverty and abjectivity AND BEHOLD nearly 50% believed him…GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSEVES mwebantu. Each one should now fight for the new constitution and VOW to leave a better Zambia for his or her children and “…if need be, to die for…”
Field Ruwe I think you are asking the wrong questions thats why I havent read your whole article. The most important question is: Why doesn’t President Sata resign?
Phew! What an article. At once pompous and then amidst all that God is misrepresented, by someone who clearly does not know the true nature of God. Firstly, you start by espousing Evagelical charismatic gobbledygook (signs and wonders); ‘God is telling him something.’ Then you make an about sharp turn into a ‘witches hut,’ for a bit of ancestral AND demonic philosophy; all in the same breath God, demons and ancestors (dead people) are ‘together’ advising Sata! Is it really possible that God Almighty, Jehovah would keep such company? In an insufferable way you refer to yourself as ‘the Learned’ blogger and fart this fart that..! You are so dismissive of another human being because you think you can judge him. But what is clear is that God has allowed you to make a foul of…
Oh that last bit is that God has allowed you to make a fool of yourself. What is truly sad about my beautiful country is that freaky *****s like you are trying to create a new ruling ‘class’ for yourselves. You write with such arrogance, one wonders if you have a humble bone in you. ‘When some people expound on morality…….you can hear the Morality from miles around!’ I expect you know whom I am miss-quoting as you are so learned. Nos. 8, 8.2 and 11, I agree with you, this turkey is a joke! Just to inform the writer, God also sometimes allows people to suffer so that he can make them stronger in their faith in Him. Moses an ‘ancestor’ and God’s true servant, can tell you a story about Egypt!
This is just so irrational. Insinuating that Sata is sick because of his promise to rule by the commandments (which has not been the case – so Ruwe claims) or that God has turned a red eye on him for calling Mwanawasa a Cabbage or worse still, that the name king cobra has corroded God’s favor is just laughable. Ruwe should do better than this. If this were the case, no one in this world would be walking around in good health. Infact, many world leaders would be Intensive Care Units. And one Kaunda who failed in many ways while invoking God’s name would be long gone or cast with long and disfiguring infirmities. Please leave God out of it. Do not be this superstitious. Be rational and be balanced Dr!
Sata also messed with the people of Barotseland by cheating them that he will restore the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 of which he hasn’t. The people of Barotseland are now being harassed , intimidated & arrested for talking about BA64. There is also a heavy military presence in the area as if there’s war. Why can’t he remove his soldiers & military hardware from there ?