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Kabwe Armed Pastor Nabbed for Robbery
A KABWE-BASED pastor who was allegedly armed with an AK47 assault rifle and his accomplice have been arrested after a failed aggravated robbery at Lusaka’s Manda Hill Shopping Mall.
And the Kabwe District Pastors Fellowship Association (KDPFA) has disowned the pastor, saying he is masquerading as a clergyman.
Police spokesperson Charity Chanda identified the clergyman as Standwell Silundu, 35, of house number 93 Ufulu Road in Kabwe’s Lukanga Township and his accomplice as Kabwe Kamfwa, 24, of Chilenje in Lusaka.
Ms Chanda said yesterday in an interview that the duo was arrested on Friday night in Lusaka.
“This happened on Friday around 18:50 hours and this case is still under investigation because we suspect that there are other people involved,” Ms Chanda said.
Ms Chanda said the duo had been trailing a Lusaka resident who had gone to deposit money at Standard Chartered Bank at Manda Hill Shopping Mall.
She said Pastor Silundu and his accomplice abducted their victim after he deposited an undisclosed amount of money at Manda Hill Shopping Mall and took him to Northmead Shopping Centre where they forced him to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money at an automated teller machine (ATM).
She said, however, that the transactions failed because he gave the duo a fake pin number.
Ms Chanda said the duo later bundled him into their vehicle while another was following behind with his (victim’s) Jeep.
They returned to Manda Hill Shopping Mall where they forced him to enter Standard Chartered Bank.
“The other one escorted him into the bank but he alerted the bank and police pounced on him [Pastor Silundu],” she said.
Ms Chanda said the duo is in police custody in Lusaka facing a charge of aggravated robbery, and police have intensified their investigations into the matter.
And KDPFA chairman Moses Chirwa said the suspect is just masquerading as a clergyman.
“He is not a pastor, he is a masquerader and he is not under the pastors fellowship,” Reverend Chirwa said.
He warned criminals against pretending to be pastors, saying it is ungodly to drag genuine pastors in the mud.
“I can speak with authority. We don’t know that man,” Rev Chirwa said.
Bishop Moses Banda of New Life Christian Church Ministries warned people against posing as pastors when they are criminals that they risk attracting the wrath of God because God cannot be mocked.
Posted by Editor
on July 15, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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African God
July 15, 2014 at 10:01 am
Typical christian pastors are all thieves, only that in this case the “TIF” used a gun to steal while others like TB Joshua uses LIES to squeeze money out of peoples pockets!
Gabbage
July 15, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Are you sure of what you have writen?
ba luanshya
July 15, 2014 at 10:28 am
busness world. ubucushi bubi
chile1
July 15, 2014 at 10:34 am
Pastor frm which church ba tumfweko? Y do u lyk leavin thinz hangin lyk a retard?
Chief of Grief
July 15, 2014 at 10:54 am
Get ritch or die trying chapwa!!
PARI PASU
July 15, 2014 at 11:22 am
Most of the Pentecoastle pastors are thiefs,Joe imakando inclusive,all those who preaches in the bus all are thiefs.
Alf
July 15, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Thiefs?
Phiri
July 15, 2014 at 5:28 pm
iwe naiwe Alf…. thieves ala!
tutu
July 15, 2014 at 11:23 am
chikala uyu kwena alipama,ukwingila na banki!! uyu ena alefwayikwa ka 40yrs pantu chilikwati kuti ayipaya nokwipaya uyu
chitez mungeli
July 15, 2014 at 11:33 am
A pastor ba njala,..jail dem 35years
cm
July 15, 2014 at 11:49 am
Lets not judge other pastors based on this one. A reminder: touch not my anointed ones. This is just one of those wolfs in sheep skin.
mr nice
July 15, 2014 at 2:38 pm
bane ka plural ka thief its not thiefs but thieves
Umupandapwiti
July 15, 2014 at 3:45 pm
But kwena, these guys are extremely dull. I have watched a lot of bank robbery movies and I have never seen anything as dumb as the move they made.
brasho
July 15, 2014 at 3:49 pm
@ tutu we hav had enough of yo insults,wats wrong with u.?4 once grow up
tutu
July 15, 2014 at 5:25 pm
@brasho chikala waba ilyobe,naumonapo insele apa? imwebene bashetani mulenga abantu ukubembuka…kebe wiso
Kamushi
July 16, 2014 at 3:28 am
hez an actor but took his acting skills too far.we wonder which pastors r annointed so dat we dnt touch dem?