TELESPHORE MPUNDU FAILS TO MEET SENIOR US OFFICIALS OVER HIS CRUSADE TO HAVE ZAMBIA PUT ON ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
Archbishop Emeritus Tresphore Mpundu was sent to the United States of America by Edgar Lungu to lobby for sanctions against President Hakainde Hichilema’s government, but so far failing any senior officials there.
Mpundu is in America with a view to make Zambians suffer like the Zimbabwean citizens are currently suffering. He’s more than 80 years now and may not feel the full impact of any sanctions in his life time at his age.
Sent by Edgar Lungu with the likes of Brebner Changala, Chris Zumani Zimba, Emmanuel Mwamba, and other PF leaders, Mpundu is now basically stranded in the US as officials are busy with other serious engagements around Israel and GAZA conflict and the Russian war against Ukraine.
It’s so far understood that President Hakainde Hichilema has ordered the Zambian mission in the US to help the Bishop and help him as he is lost in various government offices.
“Can you imagine someone has come here (Telesphore Mpundu) to scandalise the Zambian government of Hakainde Hichilema but it’s now Mr. Hichilema himself trying to assist him. These people are hypocrites. We thought they would be going to Socialist countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and others, but they are coming to countries they call imperialists”, sources said
This is a fake story. How can sanctions against Hichilema, Mwimbu , Mutti make Zambians suffer? Infact it will lead to saving of a lot of money for the treasury! So when you create fake news, understand that the people you are targeting to read it are also mature adults like you.
You are a danderhead among danderheads,the president of the republic of Zambia is a Zambian institution owned by Zambians if sanctions are layed on him it affects the whole country but luckily for us the USA even the ambassador knows the thieves and their agenda, Mpundu is a concierge of the Zambian Mafia headed by ECL and his cronies and the USA government smelt him from the airport and want nothing to do with him….shame on this pathetic old man.
All these are foolish comments. This is completely nonsensical. Sanctions are sanctions whether on an individual or a country. Zimbabwe is just next door. Why can’t you Mukuka and Manganga ask Zimbabwe and how sanctions on their President and Vice President are affecting every Jill and Jack???!
SG Imenda sir, here is another so of Lu……r he wants God’s children to suffer.
How will God’s Children suffer , Mr. Fake Zambian , when money will be saved in the treasury because of individual sanctions by US, on certain selfish individuals. Praise singers always want to pretend they don’t understand simple English to suit their desires. The sanctions oCida is advocating are not against Zambia as a country, but against certain individuals! Period. When Jack Mwimbu goes to US, it’s the government spending on him, personally, and there’s no direct money he gains for the commoner in Zambia. These are personal sanctions which are being proposed , not nation functions. The US will continue funding Zambia as a country, but the mentioned Zambians will not travel outside Zambia for their personal financial gain.
These people are already broke after getting alot of money during their rule. These are signs of being broke and desparate. HH’s fight against corruption is working. These people have bundles of printed Kwacha notes in their homes but have failed to release them on the market because there is an eagle’s eye observing and monitoring them. They cheat others that they will come back.. FORGET THAT WAS THE END OF YOUR RULE.
For the uninitiated and uninformed, what is being called for by OCiDA are what in international politics are called “smart” sanctions that affect key political players and not the majority Zambians.
“Smart” sanctions are like precision’-guided munitions used in war in a manner that reduces their adverse effects on the wider population.
Archbishop Mpundu denied this photo, it was doctored. He said, yes I admit having visited former president Lungu but I never got so close to him as shown in the photo. The paparazzi did it and we know them. About his failure to see the American officials, unless otherwise, every government knows the protocols to follow and if someone has not followed those protocols, then he is bound to fail to meet any one. In the USA, we have our embassy there, no one can see the US government officials without the blessings of our embassy staff.
Just vote wisely in 2026.
No more ama rubbish.
Pls read the story. And dont lie. Mpundu got a visa from the US embassy here. The state Dept was aware of his trip and purpose.
So he didnt need the government or the Zambian Embassy in the US’s permission or protocol (to meet State Department personnel).
If Mpundu was serious, and case had value. The US Embassy from here would have advised/recommended the state Department to impose sanctions.
People as “HH said, nkani ya mu moba”.
The story suggests that Embassy staff at the Zambian Embassy in the US were advised to assist the man. A point to show that if they had a case. The US government would entertain them. Read one of the stories that is in the paper today.The US has pushed in Millions of dollars into the HIV, for the citizens of Zambia.
Lets honestly ask. If there was a problem with the leadership (as we saw in the previous regime misappropriating donor funds under a GTZ project, the embassy here complained to the government. What did Mr. ECL do? He acted like thatwas a non issue. Did they sanction him? No they just pulled their money out of all projects in Zambia. Who stuffered? Was it not Zambians?)
Mr. Mpundu is an old man that needs to step down and enjoy whatever life God has given him. He hardly articulates himself appropriately and is going to embarrass himself. Similarly is my advice to Changala. People are watching the antics that show nothing but selfserving motives and no bearing on the lives of Zambians.
The Catholic bishops made at lot of noise. The met with HH and shared their concern and he too noted and answered them. Do we see them making as much noise as before? The only misfit is Banda who is we have read is linked to ECL.
But what is ECL’s problem? Mulusa reports he is losing it. But why? If I ask you how you managed to buy a car that we all know you can not afford. What is the problem.
Its only when a thief is asked “what are doing in my house” that the thief gives irrational answers.
The noose is getting tighter and those leaking information to him(ECL) for ka brown envelope allow him to understand how the court cases will eventually point to him.
No deed (even that in the dark) goes unoticed.
Mpundu should just enjoy his sponsor’s ill gotten money. No more than Judas and the silver coins. One has to ask the moral campus of our clergy if they are willing to go to such a limit. Mbula is right. I just worry that the reason he was never at the helm, should be held. Someone in the organisation should speak for it. Given that Changala and Mpundu have been asked to step aside.
So lastly, uko ku America who is speaking for? The organisation he says he represents has disowned him…..