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Police in Kitwe have detained a Bishop from Holy Fire Ministries for allegedly having sex with nine young girls from his church aged between fourteen and twenty years old.
Bishop Dominic Kanyika Nyondo is alleged to have been sleeping with the girls on the pretext of exorcising ghosts from them between 2010 and 2013.
Copperbelt police commissioner Joyce Kasosa who confirmed the development to ZANIS in Kitwe today said the Bishop was allegedly sleeping with the girls at the former Kitwe City Council (KCC) farm in Kapoto township across the Kafue River at a mountain.
Ms Kasosa added that Bishop Nyomdo allegedly used to ask the girls to accompany him to the bush for prayers where he would strip them naked, apply milk on their bodies and later have sex with them.
She said the suspect will be slapped with various charges once the investigations are completed.
The Police Commissioner however indicated that the suspect is likely to be charged with defilement, indecent assault and rape.
Ms Kasosa described the incident as sad and that it was just ignorance on the part of the girls as the Bible was clear on issues of exorcising demons.
Bishop Nyondo is detained at Riverside police station.
Lusaka Dynamos opened a two-poiint lead at the top of Division One South on the final stretch of the race for promotion.
Dynamos are hoping to end a four yeat absence from the FAZ Super Division.
Perry Mutapa’s side picked up a shock away win in Matero over Lusaka Tigers whom they beat 1-0 thanks to a 43rd minute goal by Marvin Jere.
Dynamos move to 39 points from 18 games after the win while Luena Buffaloes stayed second after a 1-1 draw with Mazabuka United in Kaoma.
Scorecard:
MTN/FAZ Super Division Week 16
19/07/2014
NAPSA Stars 2(Chisenga Lukwembe 53″, Seith Sakala 66″)-Konkola Blades 0
New Nkana striker Tony Odur says he is determined to help the Wusakile side defend the FAZ Super League title.
Nkana unveiled the 29-year-old Uganda striker during a ceremony at Nkana Stadium on Tuesday morning.
Odur has joined Nkana from Uganda’s Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) on a one year deal.
“Firstly, I want to thank Nkana for bringing me here. I think it is a good team,” he said.
“I will work hard to see that Nkana become the champions of Zambia,” Odur said.
The ex-Brabrand IF (Denmark), Express FC and Bunamwaya SC striker scored 15 league goals for KCCA last season.
“I want to develop my talent here,” Odur added.
Meanwhile, Odur is ineligible to feature for Nkana in the 2014 CAF Confederation Cup after playing for KCCA in the CAF Champions League earlier this year.
The Examinations Council of Zambia has defended the decision to erect two statues at the entrance to the institution after a social media campaign was launched to have them pulled down.
Lusaka based motivational speaker Mubita Nawa over the weekend launched a Facebook campaign dubbed #NotZambia@50 where he denounced the ugly state of the art pieces and called on Zambians to push the ECZ to have them removed.
Mr. Nawa had contended that the statues were ugly and did not represent the modern day Zambia.
But ECZ Spokesperson Ronald Tembo said the institution has taken time to study the postings on social media by Mr Nawa and has concluded that the debate on the art pieces was over blown.
“We wish to state that the ECZ is a public institution which has an open door policy. From the outset, we therefore acknowledge receipt of the opinions from Mr Nawa and the general public on the issue,” Mr Tembo said in a statement.
He added, “We therefore wish to inform the public that the purpose for putting the statues at the entrance of the ECZ was to enable the general public to easily locate the ECZ as they came through to access various Council services.”
“The statues therefore arose from various complaints we received from those who could not easily locate us in the past. We did not necessarily intend to have beautiful and expensive pieces of art work as we could and still cannot afford the cost of such art works.”
Mr Tembo said the ECZ shall consult administratively in accordance with its operational procedures and structures and take appropriate action to ensure that this issue reaches its logical conclusion.
He also stated that there was no corruption involved in erecting the statues as all procurement procedures were followed.
The Council of Churches in Zambia has welcomed the decision of the Church of England at their General Synod meeting recently held in York, England, to appoint women bishops.
This decision comes 20 years after the church commenced ordaining women as priests.
CCZ General Secretary Reverend Suzanne Matale said the Church in Zambia is looking forward to the appointment of the first woman bishop of the Church by the end of this year as has been promised.
Reverend Matale said the momentous action can be described as progressive and is a recognition that women have great potential and resilience.
“When women and men work as partners the impact on the growth of the body of Christ in the world is enhanced. We encourage more and more women to answer their calling without reservations so as to fulfill God’s message of justice, love, joy and peace in the world by all of God’s people,” Reverend Matale said in a statement.
She added, “There is need for the church worldwide to embrace the emergency of women church leaders because time has come for women to take up greater roles and responsibilities in the work of God.”
Copperbelt Province Patriotic Front Chairman Stardy Mwale (left) shares a light moment with his Lusaka Province counterpart Geoffrey Chumbwe
The Supreme Court has sent back for re-trial to the High Court the case in which Lusaka Province Patriotic Front (PF) Chairman, Geoffrey Chumbwe, who lost the Chilanga Parliamentary seat, had appealed against the High Court’s decision of upholding the election of Keith Mukata as dully elected Chilanga Member of Parliament (MP) after he petitioned the seat.
Acting Deputy Chief Justice, Marvin Mwanamwambwa, who sat with Supreme Court Judges Florence Mumba, Gregory Phiri, Munyinda Wanki and Elizabeth Muyovwe said the case was being sent back for re-trial at the High Court before another judge because the High Court did not resolve the disputes between the two parties and did not give reasons for its decisions in the judgment.
He said the High Court should have made explicit findings about the truth over the 55 bags of cement which are in dispute between the two parties whether Keith Mukata donated the cement to the electorate as alleged by Chumbwe or were bought by the two cooperatives.
Justice Mwanamwambwa said the trial judge should have made explicit findings about the source of the disputed bags of cement that were used to construct a slab at a storage shed hence ordered for a
re-trial before another Judge at the High Court.
The PF candidate for Chilanga Parliamentary Seat in 2011, Geoffery Chumbwe, had asked the High Court to nullify the election of Keith Mukata as not dully elected Member of Parliament for Chilanga Constituency after he lost the seat.
After weeks of speculation and denial, Nkana have finally got their man following Tuesday’s unveiling of Beston Chambeshi as coach.
Caretaker coach Zeddy Saileti’s 3-2 home defeat on Saturday at the hands of promoted Green Eagles forced Nkana’s hand to make a change.
Chambeshi was introduced to the players on Tuesday morning at Nkana Stadium.
He was until Tuesday coach at Konkola Blades whom he leaves after twelve months in charge.
Chambeshi has been apointed to take up the vacant head coach post following the death of Masauso Mwale in a car accident on May 24.
“It is a three a year contract and we concluded yesterday,” Nkana vice chairamn Patrick Njobvu said after Chambeshi’s unveiling ceremony.
“We believe he is going to do better. A lot of names were floated and we had to make sure that we came up with somebody the executive and supporter’s, supported.”
With Chambeshi’s arrival means that Saileti reverts to his old role as assistant coach so too will Gift Kampamba who drops back to third assistant.
“Beston Chambeshi is a good coach and expectations are high and if they work as a team they will not be any problems,” Njobvu said.
“If he is going to be supported by the executuve and the bench he is going to perform wonders.”
This will be Chambeshi’s second stint as Nkana coach after a brief spell in 2003 after replacing his former boss Patrick Phiri under whom he worked as assistant at the club.
Chambeshi heads straight into a masive test this Saturday in his first match in charge when Nkana host Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia in a 2014 CAF Confederation Cup Group B match in Kitwe.
The ex-Nkana star also has a huge job ahead to lift the defending champions from their current fifth placing on the table where they sit seven points behind leaders Zanaco with fourteen games left to play.
First Lady, Christine Kaseba, has described the high number of child marriages in Zambia has a crisis.
Speaking in interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from Lusaka, Dr Kaseba said child marriages must be fought with the same energy that saw the country reduce the HIV prevalence from 25 per cent to the current 16 percent.
She said HIV was considered a crisis when the prevalence rate stood at 25 per cent,the country therefore needs to do something about the 42 per cent of girls that are either married or impregnated off before they reach the age of 18 years.
The First Lady, however, expressed happiness that leaders at different levels are getting involved in the fight against early marriages.
Dr Kaseba pointed out that traditional leaders have become active in fighting the vice because of heightened awareness in the country.
She also commended the media in Zambia for their role in raising awareness as well as fighting early marriages.
The revelations of high corruption levels and other criminal activities among some judges and lawyers is just a tip of an iceberg of what was happening in the system, Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) spokesperson Antonio Mwanza has said.
Mr Mwanza said the entire judicial system in the country does not inspire confidence.He has said there could be no clean judicial system when it lacks inspiration from the top.
“How can you inspire confidence in the judiciary when you have people acting like the current office of the Chief Justice? How do you tackle corruption when you have offices such as the one for the Attorney General in the acting capacity?” asked Mr. Mwanza.
He said it was high time President Michael Sata addressed the problems he had created for himself by allowing offices such as of the Chief Justice to continue in the acting capacity.
“The whole judicial system under the PF does not inspire confidence because people like the Attorney General Musa Mwenye and Madam Lombe Chibesakunda have been holding those offices in an acting capacity,” Mr Mwanza said.
He said there was need for President Sata to swear in the Attorney General and find a substantive Chief Justice rather than having people holding key government positions in an acting capacity.
Mr. Mwanza said there was urged need to clean the entire judicial system, adding that the corruption revelations by acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda in the judiciary was not only worrying but also shocking.
“With regards to the corruption in the judiciary as announced by acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda, it is clear that the judiciary is corrupt. But the revelations are not enough, action should be taken against the corrupt magistrates and lawyers,” he said.
He said criminal lawyers and corrupt judges should be probed, prosecuted and sent to prison to safeguard Zambians from such people.
Mr. Mwanza challenged the Law Association of Zambia to act on the allegations leveled against its members.
“We have heard these stories from top ranking officials and it’s up to LAZ to act now, let LAZ confiscate or cancel the practising licences from criminal lawyers. Let the Chief Justice now report corrupt judges to the ACC in order to be prosecuted rather than just saying things in the manner they have done,” he said.
And Mr. Mwanza has appealed to President Sata to swear in Mr. Mwenye as Attorney General.
“We challenge President Sata to swear in Musa Mwenye. There is too much circus now in the country because of these issues of acting this, acting that. We have acting Chief Justice and now we have acting Attorney General. These are not the reforms the PF should be talking about,” said Mr. Mwanza.
The Zambia Police Service says Congolese Rhumba King Koffi Olomide is free to perform in Zambia as his assault case has been closed.
Police Service Spokesperson Charity Munganga Chanda confirmed that police will not be pursuing the matter any longer after they decided to close the docket against the Rhumba giant.
Mrs Chanda said the case against Olomide was dropped after investigations revealed that the complaint was not collaborating with what the investigators found out.
Olomide was facing an arrest after Lusaka freelance Photojournalist Jean Mandela decided to resurrect a 2013 assault case against Olomide for allegedly assaulting him during a New Year’s Eve concert at Pamodzi Hotel.
Olomide is expected back in Lusaka for a series of shows this month end since his 2013 scandal in which he was forced to flee via Kasumbalesa to evade the police they were pursuing him over the assault matter.
But Mandela has maintained that justice should be allowed to prevail in the matter by arresting Olomide the moment he arrives in Lusaka.
He said the police should protect citizens against such abuse by conclusively pursuing the matter and bringing Olomide to book.
“Even if they say the case is closed, I will bring it back. He assaulted me and he has to face the law. In 2013, the police said they had enough evidence against Koffi, today they are saying my statement is not collaborating with their investigation, what is that?”
A visibly annoyed Mandela said he will not stop seeking justice in the matter.
“If you read the Post Newspapers and what the Police said after the incident, you cannot expect them to turn around today and protect Koffi. He has to pay for this. I will not stop and until Koffi is prosecuted for assaulting me,” Mandela vowed.
Meanwhile the editors forum has released the media statement below
July 22, 2014
Media release from the Southern African Editors Forum
The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) Zambian Chapter wishes to call on the Zambia Police to arrest Congolese Rumba Musician Koffi Olomide when he comes to Zambia for assaulting a Zambian photo-Journalist, Jean Mandela.
We have noted with great interest Koffi’s planned visit to Zambia and the police’s reluctance to have him arrested.
We are aware that the police spokesperson Ms Charity Munganga-Chanda has issued a statement that Koffi will not be arrested when he comes because of the absence of collaboration between the evidence and the police.
Whatever that means, we are not aware that the police have a responsibility to collaborate evidence because this is a responsibility of the court.
The police should not play hide-and-seek merely because Koffi is a popular figure because the Zambian law is not selective on who follows it. We therefore, wish to announce the outright rejection of the said statement by the police.
We will not allow our members to be harassed by anyone. The police have no right to apply selective justice but the law must be respected by all citizens.
We are sufficiently aware that an assault case merely requires the complainant to produce a medical report from a duly certified medical doctor which condition was satisfied by Mr Mandela when he reported the case.
So do not expect any more excuses from the police because their role is to ensure that citizens are protected from physical harassment.
If the police maintain their stance, then their safety will always by under threat from the powerful persons in society who will continue to harass media practitioners and other citizens knowing that police would protect them.
Zambia Under-17 coach Chris Kaunda has demanded improvement from his team ahead of the away 2015 CAF Youth Championship qualifiers second round return leg against Botswana to be played in Gaborone on August 2.
Zambia on Sunday edged Botwana 1-0 in the first leg match of the second round played at Sunset Stadium in Lusaka.
Midfielder Enock Mwepu scored a solitary goal to give the Junior Chipolopolo a slight advantage going into the return.
“I am not dissappointed with the result. The game is still on but they are beatable even at their home,” Kaunda said.
He defended the performance of his team at home.
“Some of them are playinng at that stage for the first time.”
Kaunda believes Zambia have the potential to score away in Botswana.
“They (Botswana) will open up in the return match and goals will come,” he said.
The overall winners between Zambia and Botswana will face either Uganda or Rwanda in the final round of the CAF Under-17 Cup to be hosted by Niger.
Chanda Chimba III, the producer of the infamous television documentary, dubbed “Stand up Zambia”
A witness told the Lusaka Magistrate Court that K128m was paid by Chanda Chimba III for airing of Stand Up for Zambia programmes on Muvi television Station.
MUVI TV, Security Manager, Allan Mulenga, 50,a Livingstone resident said the 16 episodes of stand up for Zambia programmes were aired on the private TV station after they were paid for by the Chanda Chimba III.
He testified that he was on August 15, 2012 he was visited by officers from task force on corruption who wanted to find out how many programmes for stand up Zambia were aired on MUVI TV and how much was paid for airing of the programmes.
Mr. Mulenga said 16 episodes were paid for by Chanda Chimba III and that K8m was paid per programme.
When asked what was the mode of payments that was made for the programmes, the witness said that the payments were paid in cash.
This was in a case in which General Ronnie Shikapwasha a politician, is jointly charged with his former Information Permanent Secretary Dr. Sam Phiri and Freelance Journalist Chanda Chimba III are charged with abuse of authority of office contrary to Section 99 (1) of the Penal Code
Chapter 87 of the Laws the laws of Zambia.
It is alleged that on dates unknown but between October 1 and November 31, 2010 Lt Gen Shikapwasha and Dr Phiri, jointly and whilst acting together, arbitrarily and in disregard of defamation laws and ZNBC editorial policy directed ZNBC management to broadcast Chanda Chimba’s documentary namely, Stand Up for Zambia, an act prejudicial to the rights and interests of ZNBC, a public body.
Principle Magistrate Obbister Musukwa has since adjourned the matter to tomorrow, July 22, 2014 for continuation of trial.
The Labour movement has lambasted parliamentarians demanding for salary increment.
The movement has also charged that the ongoing wage freeze is tantamount to stagnating the workers’ worthiness.
Federation of Free Trade Unions in Zambia (FFTU) acting president Msiska Chinagti described the action by some parliamentarians for salary increment as selfish, disgusting and alarming.
Mr. Chingati says that the demand by some parliamentarians to press for salary increment is unwarranted, selfish, disgusting and alarming.
He said it is improper for legislatures to start requesting for salary increments after endorsing the wage freeze on public service workers.
ZANIS reports that the Labour leader said this in a statement released in Lusaka, yesterday.
Mr Chingati noted that former public service workers are still waiting to be paid their pensions and some of them have since died without receiving their dues.
He said FFTU was not impressed by the current debate in parliament describing it as an indication that parliamentarians do not research on issues to be debated on.
Mr. Chingati said there is no justification for member of parliaments to request for a salary increment .
He said the country needs committed and selfless leaders and not those wanting to amass wealth at the expense of the suffering majority.
Mr. Chingati explained that wage freeze is applicable in the event where institution faces redundancies or bankruptcy.
He further stated it was surprising to note that government went ahead and endorsed it the wage freeze without consultation.
Mr Chingati said negotiations between the public service workers and government should go on without interference.
Alliance for Democracy and Development president Charles Milupi
Opposition President for Alliance for Development and Democracy (ADD) Charles Milupi says the demand by Members of Parliament for a further salary hike is unfortunate and unrealistic.
Mr Milupi say it is saddening for members of parliament to demand for salary increment at the time there is a wage and employment freeze in the Public service.
He said with high poverty and unemployment levels members of parliament should take a lead in demonstrating fairness in the distribution of the national cake.
Mr Milupi added that to say that members of parliament are not adequately remunerated is to be less than honest as they are paid salaries that include constituency, transport, sitting allowances to attend parliament and in committees.
He further said members of parliament also get hefty gratuity allowances including a mid-term payment.
[pullquote]“MPs want more money, we deserve more money. We demand our salaries are increased so that our gratuity goes up. The members of the public need to know that we are poorly paid and we can’t live as impoverished leaders,” Ms Namugala said.[/pullquote]
Mr Milupi has since urged members of parliament not to view the privilege of representing their constituencies as a means of generating wealth for oneself.
Opposition MPs led by Cathrine Namugala recently proposed in the house for a salary increment a move that has sparked negative reaction from various sections of society.
“MPs want more money, we deserve more money. We demand our salaries are increased so that our gratuity goes up. The members of the public need to know that we are poorly paid and we can’t live as impoverished leaders,” Ms Namugala said.
“Why should we work five years and after that become impoverished? And we demand that a pension is introduced. Some of our predecessors are impoverished and we don’t want to end up like that. What we want is that the welfare of MPs should be looked at,” Ms Namugala said.
UPND Monze Central MP Jack Mwiimbu lamented that in his 12-years as a parliamentarian, the House had on different occasions discussed the welfare of MPs but without tangible achievement.
Mr Mwiimbu accused Cabinet of failing to tackle issues regarding the welfare of MPs.
Mr Mwiimbu said Parliament’s committee system was the weakest in the region detailing that its vital role as an oversight institution on the operations of Government ministries was being overlooked.
He recommended that sitting allowance for MPs should not be received but be part of the gratuity package.
“The sitting allowance should be part of our gratuity that way the salary will go up. MPs are wallowing in poverty because of poor emoluments,” he said.
