It seems our once cleanest town in Zambia, Chingola is never short of controversy or drama! The skin crawling gassing incident, during the PF era, whereby folks could be gassed in their sleep making them suffocate to death or left gasping for dear life emanated from the same town before spreading to the rest of the country! And then we saw property developers encroaching on the Airport land and building their houses. Before long, the so called Jerabos – criminals ran riot and resorted to attempting to pelt the President as he engaged them to find solutions to the controversy surrounding the Senseli mine.
Before the dust could settle….. boom; social media is awash with videos of a middle aged man severely being harassed for allegedly making people’s private parts disappear in thin air! He’s being pulled, hither and thither, as a hefty man grabs his belt and starts giving him a good hiding while the others slap the day lights out of him! He can be seen bleeding profusely as he pleads for mercy.
Such kind of reasoning is as dumb and shallow as believing a coffin can somehow move and direct movements to identify whoever has killed them. How many of us saw the video of an elderly woman whose house was reduced to ashes in Ndola last week as a coffin ‘found’ its way to her humble abode? That was heart wrenching…… sickening!
What sort of dark-age reasoning is this? It’s quite shocking that our people can still believe in such cock and bull stories in this era of artificial intelligence! It’s indeed quite shocking that even the most educated of our people in society seem to easily fall for such crap. Surely, is our going to school doing us any good or may our mental slavery is refusing to liberate us from such backwardness?
Thank you Zambia Police Service for clarifying that this is all hogwash…..no one in Chingola have lost their God given essentials, miraculously! We would like to encourage the victim…..a caretaker at the Seventh Day Adventist Church to consider pressing criminal and civil charges. Those that physically and verbally abused him are simply criminals that deserve lengthy prison sentences!
We rest our case…..
Prince Bill M. Kaping’a
Political/Social Analyst
Zambezi
