Of disappearing reproductive organs & crass primitivity!

Yesterday, dark clouds descended on the small mining town of Kalumbila as a mob went on rampage and bludgeoned a 46 year-old woman to death upon accusing her of causing the disappearance of reproductive organs of a man after making physical contact with him at a local market. This comes hot on the heels of a similar incident in Chingola whereby an enraged mob viciously manhandled a middle-aged man, stripped him off of his belt and whacked him like a school boy! This was very humiliating…..so degrading.

Fellow citizens, are we living in the 21st Century or we are still trapped in dark ages when our ancestors could believe one would jump on a broomstick in their loin clothes and fly from Zambezi to Chipata to bewitch their sworn enemies for? Honestly, how can you believe someone can somehow use black magic to conduct virtual surgery on private organs without leaving any trace of blood? Assertions that what happened in Kalumbila had a tinge of tribalism to it, as some people want us to believe, are totally misplaced.

Is it therefore correct to suggest that even the Chingola incident was motivated by tribalism ? Nothing of that sort bwana, it’s just sheer backwardness! As Bishop Bilon Kalumbinga has rightly observed, “When people are illiterate, their reasoning is limited, and they act illogically.

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Most of the time, illiterate people act and react, moved by their emotions without the benefit of their intellect.” We are elated that the President has demonstrated his usual sound leadership by ordering the arrest of the suspects behind this callous and gruesome act. They deserve to rot in prison growing pineapples and cabbages. Prince Bill M.

Kaping’aPolitical/Social AnalystZambezi An opportunity to widely sensitise the public and especially the people of northwestern province on this barbarism was missed when PF Northwestern province Chairman was killed in exactly the same way using stones and sticks during the 2021 elections, in cold blood. And this happened in this same province. I dont remember of any arrests and trial

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