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Bird Carrying Letter Shocks Kitwe Residents
A Business executive in Kitwe yesterday awoke to a rude shock when a dove, with a letter containing threats on his life attached to it, was found at Nakadoli Police Post in Chimwemwe Township in the morning.
The threats were over a K35, 000 debt, the business person identified as Boniface Musakanya Mwamba of house number 557 Garnetone area, is allegedly owing.
In the letter, Mr Musakanya was given a three-day ultimatum to return the debt or suffer consequences.
The incident attracted the attention of Chimwemwe residents and marketeers who besieged the police post in numbers to catch a glim
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Magic bird
May 4, 2014 at 11:45 pm
A carrier pigeon or messenger pigeon is a homing pigeon (specifically a domesticated rock pigeon) that is used to carry messages. Using pigeons to carry messages is generally called “pigeon post”. Most homing or racing type varieties are used to carry messages.
In primitive societies such couriers are seen as “magic birds” muleke ubututu ba kolwe!!
golfer
May 5, 2014 at 1:26 am
Thank you my enlightened colleague. I too was taken back by these ignorant idiots lack of knowledge especially on something as trivial as this.
Beyond the Devil'z Reach
May 4, 2014 at 11:57 pm
i hope the carrier pigeon was not stones to death or burnt alive.. the “person” who sent the message know’s just how supersistious the so called “christian nation”
RELAX chintinya fye the bird is harmless
From the days of ancient Egypt through the early 20th century, pigeons were used regularly to carry messages and small packets, and to deliver news. In the 1800s and 1900s they were heavily used to relay strategic military information between posts; such use may exist today. For sure, hobbyists or pigeon fanciers are still raising carrier pigeons, also known as homing pigeons.
Beyond the Devil'z Reach
May 4, 2014 at 11:59 pm
* hope the carrier pigeon was not STONED to death or burnt alive*
Smooth Operator
May 5, 2014 at 12:12 am
hahahhaha……..Postal management will be taking these new recruits on very soon.
Independent Mind
May 5, 2014 at 1:07 am
On TB Joshua.a black 1 was brot & it ws said that it never failed but killed wherever it ws sent. After delivery the thing just died. Witches do exist. Just check adverts in the Post. Unles u ‘re covered by Jesus’ blood, they can kil lik that.
Copper Belt
May 5, 2014 at 1:20 am
tb joshua ni ndoshi…He is a con-artist,
ati blood of jesus.. ma rubbish!!
T00LHEAD
May 5, 2014 at 1:48 am
God is good, especially if you’re a conman pastor with some business savvy. These days, millions of souls, desperate for financial breakthroughs, miracles and healing, all rush to the church for redemption. And while the bible expressly states that salvation is free, THESE DAYS salvation comes with a cost: offerings, tithes, gifts to pastors, and a directive to buy literature and other products created by “men of God”
Pastors are no longer solely interested in getting people to Heaven; they’ve devised intelligent ways to make good money “while reaching out to souls”
Stoney
May 5, 2014 at 1:07 am
Cry my beloved country!
First it was KAWAMBWA’s Mutoba village whose settlers hacked and burnt a very rare scientific research bird which they believed to be black magic.. then..
It’s hilarious when they complain that “homosexuality was brought to Africa by the Europeans”, not realizing that Christianity was also brought to Africa by Europeans..
Ritual killings of Albinos in whom they think that albino skin has magical powers to bring them wealth..
Raping babies and virgins because they believe they would be healed of HIV
Growing old has become a curse because then you automatically become a witch!!
What next?
UBUTUTU BWEKABWEKA!!
MJ banda
May 5, 2014 at 1:25 am
Iyo ni ikali baba, even me, I was crooked by someone in Livingstone by the name of Ben musunami who cheated me of a plot there. I need to do the same
Pioneer
May 5, 2014 at 6:14 am
The man should pay back the K35,000 he owes the sender of that mysterious letter.It must be a cash or blood agreement.
Akabanda Mateshi
May 5, 2014 at 6:26 am
Welcome to the devils era where rivers flow backwards & birds deliver letters..Let’s wait & see (two days more to go).
How to Train a Homing Pigeon
May 5, 2014 at 9:12 am
1- Make sure you have a homing and/or racing pigeon. Other pigeons are for show and will not fly back from long distances.
2- Build a loft that a pigeon can enter.
3- Make sure there is a large opening, into which they can fly. This should be predator-proof, though. You should be able to lock the bird/s away for its own safety.
4- Keep your pigeon in that enclosed space without letting it out for about 4 weeks. Feed it healthy food at least 2 times a day (once in the morning and once before they go to sleep), but be careful not to overfeed it.
5- After about 4 weeks, take your pigeon out, and push it through the opening. Do this repeatedly until it’s able to go in by itself.
6- Once your birds recognize that their loft is their home, it will symbolize safety and security for them. They may go in and out of the loft repeatedly when you let them out.
7- For flying breeds such as homing pigeons or rollers, you can let the pigeons fly away, and they will return within a few hours.
8If you do not have a homing and/or racing pigeon (if you have a fancy pigeon, for example), you can just let them out and they will return. The next step is for homing pigeons only.
9After about 2 weeks, the bird/s will have flown all over and gotten to know its neighborhood. You can start taking the bird to a set location about a mile away. Go North, South, East, and West so they know how to come back from all directions. Do this a few times and then start doing it progressively farther and farther. You can begin by going one mile away from the loft at first, then two miles, then five miles, then ten miles, etc. Homing pigeons will do well up to about 50 miles away. They have been known to come home from farther locations but usually this is for extraordinary birds only.A true racing homer will return from hundreds of miles.
KONGO DUST
May 5, 2014 at 6:33 am
The same happened to me… Now the good part was that it was a dream…kikiki£
tease
May 5, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change shape.
A police spokesman in Kwara State has been quoted as saying that the “armed robbery suspect” would remain in custody until investigations were over.
But another police spokesman told the BBC the goat was being held in case its owner claimed it.
The belief in witchcraft and the power to change shapes is common in Nigeria.
Police reform activists have condemned the “arrest”, saying it highlights the low education levels of many Nigerian police officers.
Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper has a picture of the goat and reports that police paraded it in front of journalists in the Kwara state capital Ilorin on Thursday.
But this was denied by national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu.
“The vigilante group arrested the goat and took it to the police, then they told the media.”
The next morning journalists turned up demanding to see the goat, he said.
“But of course goats can’t commit crime.”
Incompetent
The BBC’s Andrew Walker in Abuja says communities often rely on ill-educated and badly prepared vigilante squads to fill the gaps where the police will not patrol at night.
Innocent Chukwuma of the justice reform group the Cleen Foundation, told the BBC that many Nigerian police officers were poorly educated.
“There are officers who do not even have a secondary school education, and the police have a big job to do in finding these people and getting rid of them.”
He said in the past political leaders had allowed the police to be filled with incompetent and in some cases criminal officers so they could be easily bought to protect their own criminal activities.
Police have also been unable to stop vigilante squads from lynching suspects before they could investigate, he said.