HH needs spiritual counselling-clergy

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:40:03 +0000

By CHARLES MUSONDA

UPND president Hakainde Hichilema needs divine intervention and therefore, the Seventh Day Adventist Church must counsel him since he is an elder in the church, a top clergyman has charged.

In an interview in Lusaka, Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) presiding Bishop Peter Ndhlobvu said Hichilema’s bitterness and political strategy had reached dangerous levels that risked plunging Zambia into a bloodbath.

“Let the church where the UPND president worships counsel him if he is a believer. Let the pastors in that church talk to him as their man and if there are other pastors in the UPND, why can they not counsel him? Why are they keeping quiet on his leadership style?

“Politics is a game and there is always a winner and a loser. If they cannot accept and go into denial, they will die with it because denial is like cancer.

“The UPND’s bitterness has been exposed and all politicians must draw serious lessons from this because we don’t want to plunge this country into a bloodbath,” Dr. Ndhlobvu said.

He said it was unfortunate that Hichilema had taken an antagonising stance that he wanted to be felt and his strategy was to embarrass the President.

“If it were in other countries today we were going to be talking about something else because that could never be tolerated anywhere in the world because a President is a President and the Presidency is an institution that must be respected.

“If President Lungu wanted Hichilema and his entourage were going to be eliminated but thank God we have a Christian President leading a Christian nation. All those supporting HH are not in their right frame of mind. President Lungu had made it clear before that he would never shed any blood for him to continue being in State House,” Dr. Ndhlobvu said.

He said President Lungu had all the authority and command but he restrained himself.

He said the law must take its course and anyone who was a danger to society must be caged because the UPND was not above the law.