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Kampasa Killings Condemned
By Mpombo Wonani
Tears rolled, hair froze and my heart dropped as an excellently choreographed television package by Muvi television reporter Mwape Kumwenda streamed the small screen on the evening of Friday June 15, 2013.
For a moment, I was numb. The images were graphic. The narration was perfectly scripted for the moment. There was nothing one could miss from this ordeal. But in the first few minutes, there was nothing to say. What could one say when lifeless bodies brazenly taken away in bizarre circumstances at the order of the Commander in Chief President Michael Sata are thrust in the full glare of television cameras?
“Is this really, really happening in Zambia?” The first question popped. It gave birth to several other questions no one is answering, not a single person has bothered to explain.
The questions keep pouring out. They were made worse by that useless statement by the chief government spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni. Where is Sata? In Feira campaigning for a costly PF induced by-election? Was he celebrating or drinking that blood we saw on TV?
Is our President so blood-thirsty that from pangas, machetes and sticks at BIGOCA, we can move to the loss of kidney by a soccer fan while on a queue for match tickets?
Is Sata so proud of harming his own people that Father Frank Bwalya will be drenched in opaque beer and his people assualted for exercising their inherent democratic and fundamental human right to speak freely in their own country?
Even after killing those two innocent Kampasa men and drinking their blood, he still wants more blood when sending Sylvia Masebo to the funeral.
How much blood is Zambia going to spill under Sata? And will this blood be spilt or it is for Sata’s consumption since there is an element of witchcraft being practiced at State House?
And it seems those two who were brutally killed in Kampasa are part of the bigger sacrifice. The brutal and gruesome killing of those two defenceless individuals – Pumulop Lungwangwa and Clement Muloongo – whose sleep was disturbed, probably at the sweetest time of rest, only to meet their fate speaks volumes of what to expect from this intolerant and cruel regime bent on nothing but destruction of lives.
Look at the wailing women of Kampasa Community just a few kilometers outside Lusaka city centre. It’s such an emotional and breathtaking experience. Their outcry was to the government. And their pain resonated deep in me, as if I had personally known those two humble citizens. I didn’t need to know them.
The mere fact they are Zambians whose life was terminated in that cruel manner made it worse. What if it was me? What if it was you? Those that ended their lives were officers from the Zambia National Service (ZNS) acting on Sata’s instruction. If Sata can tell soldiers to fire at Lozis and kill them for fighting to secede in the Western Province, what would stop him from telling ZNS officers to clear Kampasa residents?
Two very important citizens, leaving behind young children, neither of them protesting or possessed any weapon to fight back at the time of the ZNS raid are gone. Their lifeless bodies are displayed in pools of blood.
From 05:00am to about 08:00, there was no effort to save those lives. The aim was to kill – to unjustifiably end life. This is the Zambia Sata is giving us. A Zambia where blood will spill and shall be drunk by him and his lieutenants at State House – those wizards freaking out at the sight of bald-heads.
When you look at Sylvia Masebo, the tourism minister, who is best suited for Addis Ababa Drive, Joseph Mwila Road in Lusaka’s Rhodes Park or Cockpit in Gardern compound, better still Cinderella in Kitwe or Masaka in Livingstone where her trade will be most appreciated by a plethora of machine guns, you realize why Zambia is subjected to such nonsense.
Without shame, if at all she has any shame, she even admits that PF cadres were planted at the funeral house to deal with opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema.
Masebo wants to shift the blame to a Goma, and somehow to Hichilema, and claims this same person is more MMD than PF. But when did Masebo become more PF because we all know that she spent the nine years and six months of PF in opposition prostituting with not only men but political parties as well.
Who doesn’t know that her emergence on the PF radar was knitted by her boyfriends at The Post Newspapers? Can this fool of a woman play this kind of politics to a people that are not as dumb as she mistakenly thinks they are?
That is why she celebrates the inflicting of more injury to Mr Derrick Nyirongo who was at the receiving end of PF militia when they arrived at the funeral house.
Instead of taking a wounded Nyirongo for treatment, they wanted to finish the man off when they pounced on him in the company of UPND official William Banda so that they could drink his blood too.
But if you look at Hichilema’s statement, there is no need for people to die over land in Zambia. And this step-father called Sata should be careful because he will not succeed drinking the blood of every Zambian. His heavily bandaged tummy will burst soon rather than later.
“In a country where the population density is 17 people per square kilometre or 17 people per 100 hectares, meaning each one of us, from a day old to the oldest person can have access to 5 hectares of land comfortably.
“People should not die or be killed for claiming as little as half hectare of their 5 hectare entitlement (69 plots of 40x20m),” he said.
Hichilema says Masebo’s remarks asserting that President Sata is not responsible for the Kampasa killings is completely false and a futile attempt to run away from responsibility.
“Armed forces are tightly controlled establishments throughout the world by the executive branch of the government and Zambia is not an exception,” the opposition leader says.
“It is standard procedure for the President to authorise all deployments of troops within and out side the country in writing,” he stresses.
President Sata deployed those soldiers at Kampasa and the blood of those innocent citizens is on is hands. The blood of Lungwangwa and Muloongo is dripping on Sata’s hands and he will continuously be haunted. Time will catch up with the wizard.
Posted by Kunda
on June 18, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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kakolwe
June 18, 2013 at 1:53 pm
@Mpombo Wonani, good literature here in an example of mud-slinging. Truely, each of US is entitled to 5ha. Trouble will be when 6 of us target and ocupy 1 ha. Maximum restraint is cadinal from all players: Political & otherwise
Theoretical
June 18, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Surely why
Theoretical
June 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Surely why?
PV
June 18, 2013 at 3:07 pm
If the killing was accidental may be there could be an element of forgiving but a situation where they pointed the guns at defenseless, un-armed civilians and pulled the trigger, and imagine, they were even begging for their lives to be spared, but these guys just pulled the trigger to kill….eish!!!SURELY SOMETHING WRONG!
Lesa_Eka
June 18, 2013 at 3:16 pm
The writer of this article, Mpombo Wonani, is dangerously bitter and bent on vengeance. Madam/Sir, you should learn to compose yourself, review the facts, then write a good unbiased report if you want the people to see exactly what transpired. I am not in Zambia, yet I can tell from the way you have written the article, that you have issues with either the PF as a party, Sata as a president or even Masebo, going by the way you portray her as a street girl. I am sure Masebo is notches above you in society. Do not just unleash insults, write pragmatically so that people will get your view point and side with your opinion, even if you are wrong. Amen.
pettie
June 18, 2013 at 4:06 pm
surely why take lie like that?Where Slvia Masebo who has been known to fight for poor people.Please God save us from this barbaric killings happening in our country.Shame to the killers.I am annoyed on the killings.why!why!why1Can the perpetrators be brought to book immediately.Mother Zambia your children are being killed like chickens
pettie
June 18, 2013 at 4:09 pm
surely why take life like that?Where is Slvia Masebo who has been known to fight for poor the people.Please God save us from this barbaric killings happening in our country.Shame to the killers.I am annoyed on the killings.why!why!why!Can the perpetrators be brought to book immediately.Mother Zambia your children are being killed like chickens
munagtelo
June 18, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Imwe bantu this was the case of an overzealous and incompetent soldier.Leave the PF and the president out of ths issue.The President will move in to dicipline the commandant and his soldiers.He is commander in Chief and am sure he has instituted investigations into the matter.
CNP-4U
June 18, 2013 at 4:48 pm
indeed..why should someone die over land../masebo is silly..she’s not pf but just hungry..
Mundia M
June 19, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Condemn the unthinkable killings committed by the ZNS officers. Masebo had nothing to do with criminal negligent of the ZNS officers.
There command and the immediate bosses will surely be disciplined in addition to the prosecution of the shooters themselves.
To the bereaved families, may you be comforted in the spirit of forgiveness.
“O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and act! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.” Daniel 9: 19
“For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6: 14
nshilimubemba
June 18, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Some of the articles you put up here are really evil who amongst zambians would enjoy this ofcause not people who do reason everywellmeaning zambian can see irony in your writting purpoting that you are good man but you are satan who loves to divide people who ever agrees with you is your accomplice in this evil
dung
June 19, 2013 at 8:46 am
@Sylvia Masebo the aunty is marrying kaunda.Maseba I had respect for you, but u have let me down, too much bitching, Nkomehsya is eying kaunda imagine. Nkomeshya baka ku lopola ku bana ba kakaunda.
Concerned citizen
June 19, 2013 at 11:19 am
Mpombo or who ever you call yourself, it is unfortunate to parade your ignorance on an international public media. How do you make such a false claim that Sata ordered the uniformed personnel to shoot at Lozi’s when in actual sense the killing of the Lozi’s happened when MMD was in power. You are not playing innocence by showing your hatred for people who may not even be part of the Kampasa scandal.
Pa Zed
June 19, 2013 at 11:33 am
Eco ubelele impombo, establish the facts before posting anything. The Mongu shooting was at the time Ruphia was president and not Sata. Landeniko fimbi malume, You are full of hate and you are un productive. If you lived during Shaka’s days, you would have been killed already because you are a liability to the world
james gift mwamba
June 19, 2013 at 11:36 am
MPOMBO WALI LWALA UBULWELE BWA NSABAISHI
Concerned Zambian
June 19, 2013 at 11:53 am
This man, the writer of this article is bloody sick and greedy. Surely why should you involve the PF and the President of this republic into such activities without establishing the facts of the matter. You are not doing any justice to yourself mwana better you write articles that are factual even when you are being sponsored.
Mundia M
June 19, 2013 at 12:48 pm
This article has the excitement and emotional
appeal of melodrama. It contains untruths, hatred, exaggerations and alter hallucinations.
How can this Mpombo Wonani assume that HEMCS ordered those junior ZNS officers to go and shoot the squatters of Kampansa? Where did he see HEMCS drink human blood? When has Sylvia Masebo ever prostituted herself? These questions indicate that the article is full of dramatisation of a sad incidence for political gain.
This kind of writing especially when we are genuinely hurting must be condemned with the contempt it deserves.
The deaths of Pumulo & Clement are very painful and evil forces should stop using their innocent names in vain.
The officers who mishandled this eviction must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Govt, i.e. including HEMCS and Masebo must facilitate the legal representation of the families to have the ZNS officers involved in the shootings and their officer commanding prosecuted for murder and causing death by negligent conduct respectively.
I am sure HEMCS is more upset and touched than the adversely rumbling Mpombo Wonani.