The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Zambia Union Conference President, Harrington Akombwa says the SDA Church is alarmed by the malicious, regrettable and barbaric allegations made recently at a PF rally in Kabwe that UPND President Hakainde Hichilema is a Satanist.
Dr. Akombwa has told QFM News in a statement that Mr. Hichilema and his family are part of the SDA fellowship and have not hidden that fact.
Dr. Akombwa says as a committed congregant, Mr. Hichilema has attended many church functions around the country and has been an unrelenting supporter of many church functions including camp meetings and rallies.
Dr. Akombwa states that it is a known fact that Mrs Hichilema is a very committed Dorcas Society member.
He says it is for this reason that the SDA Church finds the allegations made recently that Mr. Hichilema is a Satanist and Mason not only barbaric but offensive and irrational.
He adds that unfounded allegations such as these are not only an assault on the development of democracy but also carry the ability to breach the peace that Zambia has become synonymous with.
Dr. Akombwa has since appealed to the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), Zambia Police, Acting Chief Justice and other concerned stakeholders to do all in their power to bring all those who are trying to disenfranchise the people by their cheap propaganda and breaching the Electoral Code of conduct to book.
Meanwhile, UPND Lubwa Ward Youth Chairman Chisankama Mudenda says the UPND feels offended by such remarks and that former Orthodox Church Bishop Edward Chomba should apologize to Mr. Hichilema for such offensive remarks.
GRAND
December 25, 2014 at 9:33 pm
I am SDA, I am not in any way offended, The union president is just being political. This is tatally against our church doctrine
Denkete
December 26, 2014 at 2:04 am
HH claims he is an elder in SDA but we saw him celebrating xmas with Bread of Life, do SDA celebrate xmas? educate me pliz. He went further to visit the sick in hospital, inga ici cikuuku cafuma kwisa ba HH? Ala HH ni satanist.
Denkete
December 26, 2014 at 2:05 am
Ala ifintu ni lungu.
LIVING LEGEND
December 26, 2014 at 8:57 am
If elections were held today, Christmas day 2014 and if 2,539,925 people voted, which is nearly equally to the number of people that voted in 2011, 1,366,737 (53.81%) would vote UPND country wide and 880,087 (32.1%) would vote PF and 208,275 would vote MMD and 3.3% would vote FDD with a negligible NAREP % therein, therefore the current opinion poll based on 50 sampled registered voters in each of the 10 [provinces by province weight of voter numbers and with a margin of error of +- 3% results are as follows: Lusaka HH-44%, EL-44%NM-9%, EN-3%, Luapula HH-33%, EL- 59%, NM-13%, EN- 5%, Northern HH-30%, EL-58%, NM-10%, EN-10%, Muchinga HH-29%, EL-52%, NM-12%, EN-4%, Central HH- 54%, EL-34%, NM- 11%, EN-1%,Eastern HH-61%, EL-35%, NM-3%,EN-1%, Southern HH-89%, EL-6%, NM4%, EN-1%, Western HH-76%, EL-16%, NM-4%, EN-2%, North Western HH-82%, EL-8%, NM-5%, EN-1%, Sondashi-4%. These are based on the Product probability sum of averages of voter ratios. This gives HH 53.81% of the national vote with EL on 34.17% in this more exhaustive approach, my margin of error is 3%, and that HH’s pessimistic result in this scenario will be 50.81% and EL’s optimistic result will be at 37.17%. Seeing that now this is a two horse race, by deduction, we deduce HH to be president elect come January 20th, 2015.
Kindly note that the voter numbers are 304,000 for Northwestern, 314,000 aprox for western, 644,000 for Eastern, 625,000 for Southern, 827,000for the Copperbelt and 748,000 for Lusaka and we are dealing with roughly 50% turn out (Was actually 52% turn out in 2011). Other sets of moving averages have been used to determine the expected number of voters with discounted voters on the basis of rains, deaths, lost voters cards and other factors of motivation and apathy. The sets of 50 Sampled individuals have been sampled more than once between November 1 and December 22nd 2014.
True Source
December 26, 2014 at 9:52 am
SDA is the most divided church in the world.
It is shame that people attacking HH and the SDA President are actually SDA.
No wanda i left SDA because of such un Christian tendences.
@ Grand poor u my brother u van even sapot yo own congigant. What a useless Church Fellow.
Bj
December 25, 2014 at 9:35 pm
Dr Scott said he is a bogus bishop.
Wake up
December 25, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Mostl of these preachers answer to money and not God. they will do anything for a fee and it’s a disgrace what they are doing just to gain favor for money or political appointment. Anything beyond their. comprehension they lable it satanist.
ken
December 25, 2014 at 10:25 pm
I am also of SDA faith and do not support the allagation but the SDA union president is sensationalising the issue too much and clearly shows his inclination and furry. Pastor please try to pray for both parties to seek God’s guidance. Vengeance belongs to God.
MANNKAS
December 25, 2014 at 10:27 pm
What has that got to do with political status, all of us have our own spiritual positions which is 100% personal, only God knows.
ken
December 25, 2014 at 10:29 pm
Pastor please apologise to the Church for going out of the ways of the Seventh Day Adventist’s Doctrines.
mabo
December 26, 2014 at 11:06 am
no need for him to do so when something is wrong is wrong whether you like that person or not how would you feel if that was your father – have you ever imagined how his children felt – when something is wrong it is wrong – so something just becomes right when you favour someone. So when you hate someone even if someone is beaten in the street you tell me you will just walk away? – then what Christian are you? who says Christians cannot condemn – even Jesus condemned the wrong – stop being hypocritical when something is wrong is wrong and that Bishop has not even openly apologized?
Chris k
December 25, 2014 at 10:45 pm
So what’s wrong with the pastors word?who would allow her wife to be called a prostitute in yo hearing?wat that bishop said is wrong even in the eyes of God,SDA or not doctrine or no doctrine.
ken
December 25, 2014 at 10:55 pm
We all know! If we all get upset then what? The Church should get upset with sobriety. This is single man error and not at a scale to warrant upheaval.
Leader of that forum have disowned the sentiments and apologised. What do you want?
KASONDE MWILA
December 25, 2014 at 11:11 pm
Dr. Akombwa is a Tongo who is crying louder for another Tonga. It is not a secret that HH is a freemanson
mj banda
December 26, 2014 at 5:54 pm
@Kasonde Mwila, walasa, this mambala is a freeman/illuminati, call a spade a spade
Wake up
December 25, 2014 at 11:12 pm
Unlike the hypocritical Pentecostals who have rejected Nevers Mumba in favor of liers, theives, womanisers and drunkards. Inspite of Zambia having been declared a Christation, they have nothing to show let alone they can’t even do a single event together because of competition and jealous.Each one of them thinks they are more important than the other and won’t approve of anything they didn’t suggest.
KASONDE MWILA
December 25, 2014 at 11:12 pm
Dr. Akombwa is a Tonga who is crying louder for another Tonga. It is not a secret that HH is a freemanson
Judge Joe Bidden
December 25, 2014 at 11:26 pm
If that Bishop is really a man of God then it’s indeed a misplaced allegation on HH SDA and HH family have the right to rebuke that stupid bishop who is to preach love not hatred.
Ndanjekakhs
December 26, 2014 at 6:07 am
HH has entered politics so all sorts of missiles will be thrown at him
SDA will have a Mammoth job of defending him. Sata was left alone by the Catholic church ‘to defend himself “
MCCM
December 25, 2014 at 11:51 pm
No one insulted the church but HH only.All of us have been insulted b4.It wasnt my church nor yo churches were insulted.Did your pastors go to tumfweko and complain that your church was offenfed.This pastor is regarding others to be more important than others.He is showing partiality,unless he tells me that only HH has been insulted so far from SDA’s incerption.Pastors are shepereds who promotes peace.Jesus forgave those crucifying him,Steven also had the spirit of Christ in him.He forgave those who were stonning him to death despite them not asking 4 forgivenes,yet this pastor is abrogating for arrests of wrong doers.What type of a pastor are you?
MCCM
December 25, 2014 at 11:52 pm
offended(correction)
The Truth
December 26, 2014 at 12:39 am
What if what the bishop said is true? I hear the matter has been taken to court. Let us wait and see how it goes. However, the internet has been full of this allegation way before now. We need to know the truth… I ask, can someone be a member of a Christ-believing organization and be a mason at the same time?
Cool temple
December 26, 2014 at 1:06 am
Akombwa speak for yourself and not the SDA Church, I am an SDA member and I am not offended at all because that Bishop did I not attack the SDA but an individual, so who are you to come out and speak on behalf of the Church you hypocrite ! That’s why you Tongas are labeled tribalists because even in church you behave as though you the staunch SDAs. You should stop . You are not perfect like everyone else, Thornpak is soo not liking you. Worship God in Truth.
bm
December 26, 2014 at 10:50 am
People help all those exhibiting their low thinking capacity. How people hate the tongas!! HONESTLY SPEAKING IS AKOMBWA A TONGA NAME?? Simply bcos HH is tonga, whoever supports him is tonga??
wamutumbu
December 26, 2014 at 3:38 am
AM S.D.A AND NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT THE SDA PASTOR IS SAYING, THE CHURCH AND THE STATE HAS NEVER BEEN ONE, AND THAT PASTOR SHOULD CAME OUT SO STRONGLY THAT HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS HOUSE ARE NOT HAPPY AND NOT THE S.D.A HAS A CHURCH… IF HE HAS BEEN GIVEN A COW TO EAT AND USE THE NAME OF OUR CHURCH….I WILL REMEMBER HIM IN MY PRAYERS THAT HE MAY B 4GIVEN….
maboloyobe !!
December 26, 2014 at 4:14 am
Hahaha..so now we are able to tell how mr HH would do to individuals who would react very person like Chanda Chimba who used to insult Mr Sata MHSIP calling him a lot of names but he went on and forgave every one who humiliated and took his name to reducal,that’s leadership bane.Just soon edgar lungu was called a muslem,drunkard,sick perosn and killer but he has not taken taken anyone to caurt why because he is not the way people are saying he is.so bane grow up and analyse the situation.If you are not what people are saying you are just ignore and move on.ichishinka chilakalipa..!Sata knew he was not a devil like you same people used to call him and he never dragged any one to caurt up to now. Ubupuba tuleke bane,so ba HH just go to these small media channels and tell them that you are not interested in this issue and that you ve other important issues to sort unlike talking about satanism of which you are. Nnot show them that you are more than leader not an under five. Go Edgar Lungu just like your uncle Sata tought you. Not to talk about useless issues of satanism. Nipali Lungu fye!
kakolwe
December 26, 2014 at 5:15 am
Ba Elder Atombw.. sorry Akombwa. I have a lot of issues with you blinkered view as a church leader:
1. The Church & Satanism are inseperable. You are the SDA President to fight Satanism. Its not barbaric.
2. Giving gifts to support SDA programs & your wife being a Dorcass club member does not make you a saint.
3. Taking a bishop, Pastor, elder or any believer to court over their belief has no evidence attached because these things are spiritually discerned.
In all this discourse, you are coming our as Dr. Cadre.
kakolwe
December 26, 2014 at 5:50 am
The Church SHOULD NEVER be alarmed when one of its members is revealed to be a Satanist. Instead, they must go deeper in prayer for such a one. Surely HH must be seeking some help from the various congregations he is frequenting of late. He was kuKatolika naba GBM and indifai failed to remove the satanistic tendences. Now he was at bread of lifeand Bishop Imakando forgot to say “May God deliver you”. Next week he will be ku Chitawala, no, bacitawala tabavota, no one goes there. Let him go kuli baMutima.
mj banda
December 26, 2014 at 6:06 pm
@Kakolwe surely, if HH can read your comments, he can really collapse
kakolwe
December 26, 2014 at 5:58 am
As a Church leader, President of the Zambian conference Akombwa, you should NEVER speak on partisan level. You will breakdown the church kubupuba. Leave politics out of the church. That is why We never stop missing Dr. Matandiko (MHSRIP). The SDA is beyond parties. Among your congrgants are UNIPs, MMDs, UPNDs, PFs, FDDs, even green party doboists. Nomba iwe Akombwa wafyononona nempumi ati SDA, SDA SDA! You need to repent coz your rantings are not different from Bishop Chomba.
jones
December 26, 2014 at 7:00 am
This is also the role of the church…. what about PF reconciliation who was involved?…. which SDA member would be happy with such allegations?… the problem is that you just think of PF or Lungus interest…the Bible says thou shall not judge….what kind of a christian nation are we…?
kakolwe
December 26, 2014 at 8:28 am
Iwe naiwee @jones, look beyond parties.
Yes, the Church came between 2 waring PF camps to reconcile them. RECONCILE I said.
But ciDr. Akambwa opens his mouth to DIVIDE the two parties further. This SDA Union President has missed a chance to show Christ Living In Him.
At this rate, I would group both Dr. Akombwa and Bishop Chomba in the same group. They are fools who would use the name of Christ to divide their followers.
mujosah
December 26, 2014 at 8:05 am
AKOMBWE akuchosa kwae,
peddle
December 26, 2014 at 8:07 am
Now the SDA church has become spokesperson for HH,let him defend himself.the only thing the church can do is to pray for him so that God can give him wisdom and protection etc.I know how money can do to a person not even a pastor can resist this paper called money.
Aisha
December 26, 2014 at 8:48 am
HH must stop people talking about that lunatic evil person because talking about that will perpetrate such useless talks. And the bastard will be made more popular for nothing.
HH must just go pentecostal. He is doing fine to attend all big churches as to ascertain his Christian values.
Apostle
December 26, 2014 at 9:00 am
The truth hate ,why church get upset .Are you HH ,now we know some true colors in some I repeat some not all SDA. Their sides.
D1
December 26, 2014 at 9:24 am
Politics & Church Sifiendelana,anyway ifintu ni Edger.
paul
December 26, 2014 at 9:40 am
pastor akomwa is right if he defeading a politcian at personal level, but as church no way. i am SDA,we believe in supporting the government of day ,therefore as SDA infact we preach against evil like satanism.i invite people to ready the great controvesy a book written by EG white.SDA we should never found in politics. Zambian forgive us akombwa very soon the church shall put him to where he belong for bringing the name of church into politics .sorry.
Scot fun
December 26, 2014 at 10:09 am
It appears to me that this SDA pastor didn’t learn anything from his time as a pathfinder to his current position in the church. I am SDA and I must say that I’m very disappointed in him. This man must apologise to the SDA church and next time if he is to express his opinion or render support to some individual, he must not do that on behalf of the church. Apologise ba pastor! That was so wrong.
Kachisi
December 26, 2014 at 10:22 am
I agree with “Wake up”,
One day,this nation will wake up to the realisation that they missed a great opportunity to preserve morals. They will cry out to God for deliverance and God will say I gave you a man to save you and you rejected him.
In the midst of decaying morals Zambians are looking for a constitution that promotes christian values but they are not careful enough to endorse THE candidate to give them what they want- Shocking!!!
He has already provided a Godly leader for this season. The clock is ticking,but Christians who have failed to SEEK the Lord are being blown by the wind- no direction, no vision, no discernment
Every Christian, wake up. It is time to escape from Egypt. There is a Man with a rod in his hands. You MPs who have deserted the rod, are there any who have a conscious left? Jephthah in the bible was rejected by his own brothers. When they saw they were in trouble, they ran to him
Wake up Zambia, wake up, Are these visits to the church real? There is no smoke without fire.
Bibi
December 26, 2014 at 10:52 am
How does that sda president know that HH is not a satanist? i think its best for churches to pray for the country and not be involved with these politicians. Ask God for guidance.
he hillo
December 26, 2014 at 10:57 am
JESUS WAS INSULTED
MOCKED
REJECTED
BRUISED
DEMONISED
LATER KILLED
BUT NEVER AT ANY TIME DID JESUS THREATENED OR RETARIETED
HE OVER LOOKED.
NOW WHO IS HH NOT EVEN THOSE BISHOPS IMPORTANT THAN JESUS.
ndanje kaks
December 26, 2014 at 11:30 am
Salvation is personal. When we to Church we go as individuals. Some are saints while others practice all sorts of evil in their private time. This is not curch policy. It is an individual so why should the Church get involved in a private affair? SDA is not Tonga dominated, where I come from in Kawambwa at Chimpempe we have got one of the biggest SDA congregations, but noone from there feels offended by so called Bishop Chomba’s allegations against one HH. If this HH is satanist, this is between him and satan not the SDAs. When we face God we face him as individuals.
kabaso
December 26, 2014 at 11:37 am
am SDA too. No need to put up un spiritual war with the world.
sydney
December 26, 2014 at 1:58 pm
U dnt fellow pipo to church,I must say tht the SDA is the only church tht has a very sound doctrine.u hv little knowledge about spirituall matters read the bible and hv full understanding.
joko
December 26, 2014 at 2:50 pm
the late president, MR Michael Chilufya Sata (MHSRIP)once said to be a politician one must have a thick skin. what did he mean? Remember how he was called all sorts of name be Chanda Chimba III. He never at any single moment call in the courts. He went on campaigning his vision to the nation and Zambians were left to judge for themselves. I’m totally amazed by Hakainde and UPND reaction. This makes me believe what the Bishop said in Kabwe unless otherwise…….
chaona
December 26, 2014 at 3:21 pm
IM VERY VERY DISAPOINTED BY THIS WOMANIZER CALLED AKOMBWA. IM ALSO SDA, AND I KNW WHAT WE BELIVE IN AS SABBATH KEEPER. WHT CANT AKAMBWA TALK ABOUT HH WHO BREAK THE SABBATH WITH IMPUNITY. HH HOLD HIS RALLOLIES DURING HOLY HOURS AND AKOMBWA SHOULD CALL HIS FRIEND AND GUIDE HIM UNLIKE DFENDING OUR WHAT PIPO KNW ABOUT HH. AKOMBWA U ARE A DSGRACE TO THE CHURCH. U ARE SUPPORTING SIN HAPPEN RIGHT UNDER UR NORSE. POOR WOMANIZER…. AKOMBWA SHOULD KNW THAT EVEN WOMANIZING IS SATANISM… SO BIRDS OF THE SAME AMA SAKO WILL ALWAYS FLOOK TOGETHER…. THE BEST AKOMBWA CAN DO IS TO STEP DOWN OR OUR GOD WILL FIND A WAY. AKOMBWA SHOULD STEP DOWN…. HIS IA SUPPORTING HIS BRO IN CRIME….BA SDA MWANDI TWASEBANA PAFULA DURING YOUR TIME AKOMBWA….. IWE ULI CHAMUSELU ICA IMININA APA MU SHILO.
Rational Brains
December 26, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Church and politics do not mix ba Akombwa naimwe, what’s wrong with your problem? We know you have a problem bu you’re going too far!why can’t you leave church & join politics instead? Am a very dissapointed SDA,
Dr J
December 26, 2014 at 9:01 pm
Only Jesus was perfect, President you need money from HH or you need what peace?
cindywe
December 26, 2014 at 9:27 pm
Mapolitics aya bane kukosa mukati na kunse.anyway niba Lungu chabe!!
observer banda
December 27, 2014 at 9:23 am
a freemason can attend any church or religion. that is why they are free-manson. sir, dr akambwa the fact that he attends sda does not stop him from being a manson. sda u ve talked about 666 but u seem not know the real bearers of the mark. these pipo want to rule the world under theme”new world order” world devoid of the poor, how do they intend to do it by killing the poor thru diseases like aids, ebola etc