BISHOP BANDA CALLS FOR NATIONAL HEALING, DIALOGUE, AND DIGNITY IN HANDLING OF LATE PRESIDENT’S FUNERAL
By Brian Matambo – Sandton, South Africa
Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God (Zambia), Dr Joshua H.K. Banda, has urged the nation to embrace dialogue, unity, and forgiveness as Zambia navigates the delicate process of laying former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to rest. Speaking on ZNBC’s Kwacha Good Morning Zambia, Bishop Banda framed the moment as a critical test of the country’s maturity, calling on both the government and the late president’s family to work together for the sake of national healing.
“This is the time for us to seek healing,” Bishop Banda said. “The Bible says, ‘Confess your faults one to another.’ During this period, faults have been committed, and we must be frank enough to confess them as a country. We must accept where we have gone wrong, learn to forgive one another, and look with hope toward the future.”
The bishop stressed that the burial of a former head of state on home soil carries deep symbolic and diplomatic significance. “Whenever something as significant as this happens, especially on foreign soil, it touches on relations between countries. Diplomacy has to be at play,” he said, adding that burying the late president in Zambia allows both citizens and the international community to show solidarity.
Bishop Banda also addressed the divisive tone seen in public discourse, particularly on social media, cautioning against harmful content and disrespectful commentary. Referring to a viral video in which individuals appeared to mock the late president, he said, “It is totally unacceptable. Let us stop it and honor and respect each other. Social media must be used responsibly, especially in a Christian nation.”
He reiterated his call for unity, saying, “Whatever the case, let us pull together. This is the test of all being one Zambia, one nation. We should, we can, and we will make it. May God help us.”
Bishop Banda concluded with a message of prayer for both the Lungu family and the government, emphasizing that healing will only come when forgiveness replaces bitterness, and dialogue replaces division.
Bishop Banda and other christians for lungu as we know you if indeed you do recall your position in this whole lungu saga, then must reflect and repent
Infact for me there’s nothing like reconciliing, healing or and whatever. NO. This madam esther and the tasila including thr sister to the late presisent lungu who was insulting should no if at all they don’t know or pretending.
These are the points,
1. Neither His Excillency President HAKAINDE nor The Attorney General want what so-ever or at all cost to bury your ECL or see his remains. Not at all. The only thing they are doing this is because they are in government and the system which is the government demands them to do so just like you did with our Respected founding father Dr Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. The family wanted him to be buried next to his late wife Mama Betty Kaunda as per his wish and Kaweche Kaunda was in the for front to defend the wish of his late father but PF under late lungu and then Minister of Justice given lubinda went to court and judgement was in favour of government- which was a good thing they did on behalf of government and indeed the people of Zambia. Government under PF buried KK. The records are there; you PF and your Makebi zulu and esther lungu can go and peruse and read through for yourself- it is not secrete.
2. ECL- your lungu illtreated HH very badly and there’s nothing that HH or UPND will need from your fake and malicious propaganda and hatred of changing the narrative to suite the corrupt and thieves. No. HH or AG Kabesha has nothing whatsoever and are not even interested to be at the funeral or burial of your Lungu but because they are in leadership in government, they are oblidged to do so hence. Otherwise, What can they gain from it? If at all they were not in government- in power. To fight for icitumbi. Aweee. Not at all.
3. If indeed you Joshua Banda, you are real a man of God. Then you have to think of your day of prayer fasting and reconciliation day- 28th October. Does it reflect what you are spear heading and do you think your Lungu and yourself ( the other thing you worked with your ECL was a house of prayer) do you think Lungu will rest in peace really with all these confusion and heatred from the dead and his close associates? To tell you the truth- zerooo. Someone might be in hell now. If we see it from what we are seein now. The unforgiving is the attributes and nature of a sinner. The agents of satan. Period.
And the other fun thing is what is really there that makebi and team are hiding – what is really there? – is it juju or what and for what. Where even the chiefs from where this man comes from his relatives the elderly. No one can correct them surely tbis maKebis, Tasilas and esthers sure? I have never seen this before. Educated people acting like un- educated. Wanting by all means to bury ku SA even when the South Africans don’t want him to be burried there. Iyooo fikomfwinkaaaa. Fili ukotuleya.NIPANO TULI.
This is crazy. Or is it because of amapasiport twaleumfwa, or ishinalimbi ilyakuchalo cinmbi. We can’t really tell and can’t exadurate let alone emmanuel mwamba who is qualified in twisting the truth. Munyamata waboza ingako. With him ingamwacha ni creation of confusion and celebrating muma problems like satan his and their boss.
Bwacha tumfweko futi ifwalakonkapo.
But people have moved on now.
Bishop Banda and other christians for lungu as we know you if indeed you do recall your position in this whole lungu saga, then must reflect and repent
Infact for me there’s nothing like reconciliing, healing or and whatever. NO. This madam esther and the tasila including the sister to the late presisent lungu who was insulting should no if at all they don’t know or pretending.
These are the points,
1. Neither His Excillency President HAKAINDE nor The Attorney General want what so-ever or at all cost to bury your ECL or see his remains. Not at all. The only thing they are doing this is because they are in government and the system which is the government demands them to do so just like you did with our Respected founding father Dr Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. The family wanted him to be buried next to his late wife Mama Betty Kaunda as per his wish and Kaweche Kaunda was in the for front to defend the wish of his late father but PF under late lungu and then Minister of Justice Given Lubinda went to court and judgement was in favour of government- which was a good thing they did on behalf of government and indeed the people of Zambia. Government under PF buried KK. The records are there; you PF and your Makebi zulu and esther lungu can go and peruse and read through for yourself- it is not secrete.
2. ECL- your lungu illtreated HH very badly and there’s nothing that HH or UPND will need from your fake and malicious propaganda and hatred of changing the narrative to suite the corrupt and thieves. No. HH or AG Kabesha has nothing whatsoever and are not even interested to be at the funeral or burial of your Lungu but because they are in leadership in government, they are oblidged to do so hence. Otherwise, What can they gain from it? If at all they were not in government- in power. To fight for icitumbi. Aweee. Not at all.
3. If indeed you Joshua Banda, you are real a man of God. Then you have to think of your day of prayer fasting and reconciliation day- 18th October. Does it reflect what you are spear- heading and do you think your Lungu and yourself ( the other thing you worked with your ECL was a house of prayer) do you think Lungu will rest in peace really with all these confusion and hatred from the dead and his close associates? To tell you the truth- zerooo. Someone might be in hell now. If we see it from what we are seeing now. The unforgiving is the attributes and nature of a sinner. The agents of satan. Period.
And the other fun thing is what is really there that makebi and team are hiding – what is really there? – is it juju or what and for what. Where even the chiefs from where this man comes from his relatives the elderly. No one can correct them surely this maKebis, Tasilas and esthers sure? I have never seen this before. Educated people acting like un- educated. Wanting by all means to bury ku South AAfrica even when the South Africans themselves don’t want him to be burried there. Iyooo fikomfwinkaaaa. Fili ukotuleya.NIPANO TULI.
This is crazy. Or is it because of amapasiport twaleumfwa, or ishinalimbi ilyakuchalo cinmbi. We can’t really tell and can’t exadurate let alone emmanuel mwamba who is qualified in twisting the truth. Munyamata waboza ingako. With him ingamwacha ni creation of confusion and celebrating muma problems like satan his and their boss.
Bwacha tumfweko futi ifyalakonkapo.
But people have moved on now.