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I'm anointed by God - Chiluba

I'm anointed by God - Chiluba
Written by Chibaula Silwamba
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:46:13 AM

FORMER president Frederick Chiluba has charged that people insulting and calling him names will be crashed because he is anointed by God and stands on a rock that can never be broken.

And chief government spokesperson Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha has said President Rupiah Banda is a young Christian who has been thrown to the highest position and should be supported by all Christians so that the Lord can help him lead the country well.

Meanwhile, Chiluba’s spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba has said nobody should denigrate the fight against corruption because it is a very important task.

Addressing Christians on Monday at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka during the 17th anniversary celebrations of Zambia as a Christian nation, Chiluba said he would be watching those insulting him getting crashed.

“When I declared Zambia as a Christian nation, I made a covenant with God, I am anointed, He protects me…they say Chiluba achite ifi! Chiluba achite ifi but I am still clean. Touch not the anointed…the Lord will crash you,” Chiluba said. “You can stand, you can insult me, you can call me names I don’t care because I stand on a rock which can never break and it falls on you, it will crash you and I will be watching you getting crashed.”

Chiluba also revealed that he and Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda encountered intellectual and religious arrogance when he was declaring Zambia as a Christian nation 17 years ago.

“It was not easy,” he said.

Chiluba said he may not have even understood very well what he was doing when declaring Zambia as a Christian nation, but that he now understood better what he did because he covenanted the country with God.

“Zambia is a Christian nation and will remain so forever,” he said.

Chiluba said Zambia was cursed when it voted for the isolation of Israel during the United Nations (UN) Summit in the early 1970s.

He said he sought for forgiveness for being one of the people that attended the UN summit that made a resolution to isolate Israel.

Chiluba said God preserved him to become Republican president to change the wrong political decision to isolate Israel.

He said after he declared Zambia as a Christian nation, the country renewed its links with the Holy Land, Israel.

“When we made that wrong choice, we paid dearly for that. May God forgive me for voting for the isolation of Israel,” said Chiluba as he tried to cry.

Chiluba also said it was important for leaders in government, including the President, to know God and do things according to his will.

He also urged Zambians not to fear the world economic recession.

“Let us look up to him,” said Chiluba in his prayer. “He will not allow you his children to lose jobs because of this recession. We are not accepting the recession in the name of Jesus Christ! We will not accept the recession!”

And Lt Gen Shikapwasha asked Christians to support President Banda so that he could lead the country well.

“Immediately he [Rupiah] became the Vice-President of the Republic of Zambia, the Lord lifted me up to go to him and to bring Christ to him and lead him to the Lord,” Lt Gen Shikapwasha disclosed.

He also said the overall position of the government was to maintain Zambia as a Christian nation.

“On making 29th December a holiday, yes indeed the government must consider to gazette 29th December as a public holiday. [The date when Zambia was declared a Christian],” assured Lt Gen Shikapwasha, who is also a Reverend.

And Dr Catherine Mukuka of Watchers Over God’s Nation church in her prayer said Chiluba was being persecuted for declaring Zambia as a Christian nation.

“We thank you Lord for your grace on his life,” prayed Dr Mukuka.

And speaking when he featured on Matters at Hand programme on Muvi TV in Lusaka on Monday night, Mwamba said the Task Force on Corruption and The Post were blowing out of proportion the London High Court judgment on Chiluba’s shoes and clothes.

“Why do they choose to do certain things in a propaganda manner? If you really have a good case, you don’t have to tell lies or hide facts or tell half truths,” Mwamba argued. “That was the point of the president [Chiluba] not that he wanted to engage himself in a fight with either The Post or the Task Force on Corruption but the point was that propaganda on the onset of this case has been at the forefront than facts and truths.”

He said Chiluba had always argued, even during the time of late president Levy Mwanawasa, that the Task Force on Corruption was an illegal institution.

“We have state institutions that can handle anything. Why get an illegal body, you even appoint some chairman who does some funny role?” he asked. “The trouble starts with the Task Force on Corruption, the chairman and his officers because they are illegal; they survive by discretion of the goodwill of the president.”

However, Mwamba said the fight against corruption was very important and nobody should denigrate it in any way.

“Corruption is very costly to the country,” Mwamba said.

He also said Chiluba never struck any deal with President Banda and Patriotic Front president Michael Sata before the October 30 elections seeking discontinuation of his corruption cases.

“I am not aware of any deal that he [Chiluba] cut with either president Michael Sata or President Rupiah Banda,” he said. “A quick solution out of this would not have done Dr Chiluba a good favour if for example he discontinued these matters.”

Mwamba said it was wrong for people to create an impression that Chiluba’s preoccupation was to steal when he was president.

“To show that his preoccupation was just like stealing…you see…it’s a total lie,” Mwamba said.

Mwamba also demanded for a thorough audit of the Task Force on Corruption.

“I remember the former chairperson [of the Task Force on Corruption] Mr Mark Chona, there was a terrible audit report on him when he was chair and I believe he was moved out on that account,” said Mwamba. “Now here is a man who is respected among donors who presents that he fights corruption. He says ‘I am 70 years I want to fight corruption and leaves a legacy for Zambia’ yet there are serious issues how he handled the same money that the donors gave him to fight corruption. Now when we say this, they say ‘ha! Ha! Ha! Plunderers are panicking!"

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