The Luanshya Magistrates court has convicted and sentenced Pastor Abraham Mwamba of Word Touch Ministries International for faking the death of his own daughter. Mwamba, 47 faked the death of his daughter by claiming that the girl had gone to visit her mother in Miputu farming block on the outskirts of and died whilst there. The pastor went to Mpatamato Police station and obtained a death certificate which he later used to claim funeral grant from his employers Luanshya Copper Mines.

The company later learned that the child was in fact alive and reported the matter to police. The pastor was later arrested and detained after police established that the child was alive. He was charged with obtaining money by false presence, Uttering a false document and giving false information to a public officer.

Luanshya magistrate Dominic Makalicha fined Pastor K4, 500 for all the three counts or 2 years 3 months imprisonment with hard labor. Sources at Luanshya Police have disclosed that there is another pending case under investigation involving Pastor Mwamba where he faked the death of his younger brother Mutale Mwamba who was working for Luanshya Copper Mines.

The Mine was in the process of paying Pastor Mwamba over K400, 000 in life assurance payments when human resource officer informed management that Mutale was alive and staying in Kasama.

The company halted all the payments and reported the matter to the police. Police pursued Mutale in Kasama but he ran away leaving behind his bag, shoes and cellphone. Miners at Luanshya mine revealed that Pastor Mwamba learned the art of faking people’s deaths when he worked as Human Resource Officer for the defunct Mpelembe drilling.