OCIDA Board members have written to the American Ambassador to disown the earlier statement by Arch. Telesphore Mpundu
OCIDA REACTS TO ARCHIBISHOP MPUNDU’S RECENT PRONOUNCEMENTS
Our Civic Duty Association -OCIDA- has disowned the letter written under the guise of Emeritus Archbishop TELESPHORE MPUNDU calling on the US Government to impose sanctions on Zambian Government Officials.
And OCIDA says it is greatly disappointed that some citizens are using the name of the organisation and abusing retired Archbishop MPUNDU for their selfish motives.
OCIDA Trustee, LESLIE MBULA says it is unfortunate that this has been going on for some time.
Mr. MBULA says the organisation has now taken steps to respectfully request Emeritus Archbishop MPUNDU to consider retiring from the leadership of OCIDA.
The Archbishop is only speaking for the people.
Surely we can not keep quiet while things are this bad. His is a voice for the poor people during these dark times of incompetence, corruption, and oppression. He can not be bought, neither can our votes in 2026.
But where were you during Lungu time. Surely can you compare that nightmare time with this time. You are even holding meetings without Cadres kwisa mukumi-pasangana! That time was terrible.
1. They even disrupted the Soli traditional ceremony in Chongwe; Ate and overturned pots of food, hunted for HH. Commanders armed with Commanders pistols.
2. Remember the Intercontinental hotel meeting for NGOs + UPND we saw PFCadres stormed in and scattered papers and attendants scampering in all directions. Now they are in suits holding meetings. The fact is they just don’t want HH as a person NOT poor administration of the country affairs as they put it.
3. Who controls nature is it HH? Read world news there is no country which is spared. Our relatives in The USA are saying; you soend US$ 500 to buy same item you were buying at US$350. The claims by Mpundu group are based on hatred… period!
Archbishop told off Lungu and supported UPND. Where were you? Truth be told. This administration is full of conmen period.
We need our leaders of UPND to look offer poor people in southern province over mining sector we need our cooperative mine right to be given to the Zambian people we did the application of lithium mines here in mapatizya from the time we have told by honalembo Paul kabuswe to make co-paratives was December 2022 up to now we are still weiting please we want our licenses to feed our family
All these are just Upnd cadres, because everything has gotten worse under Upnd than they were under PF, under that’s what they are busy defending! Police brutality, economic situation, bad governance system, no freedom of expression, tribalism and nepotism are very high now etc ,so what is there for these Zambezians to defend! Anyway, they have already lived their lives, they don’t care about the suffering of the young people in this country! Archbishop Mpundu and Brener Changala are thinking of the young people! Those stunted, hungry youths that were paraded on youth day , were a disaster to watch! The Archbishop is very right on all points he raised, and whatever Leslie Mbula wants to write to US Embassy is just useless and lies! Mbula is just being used by Hichilema. Hichilema has been hit below the belt and he fears his travels to US will be blocked.
The difference between Leslie Mbula and Archbishop Mpundu is that the latter is a man of integrity. Despite the Archbishop’s younger sister having a top job in GRZ, he has never forgotten the poor. Mbula thinks more about protecting his child (ren) in government than poor Zambians.
I can only compare Archbishop Mpundu to late Anglican Archbishop of Johannesburg, Desmond Tutu, who stood on the side of the poor and oppressed under apartheid South Africa. Archbishop Mpundu is as fearless as Archbishop Tutu and is on the side of the majority poor Zambians and all those being denied their freedoms in today’s Zambia.