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Plunderers are behind the false assassination story - Bishop Mambo

Plunderers are behind the false assassination story - Bishop Mambo
By Ernest Chanda and Roy Habaalu
Tue 24 Jan. 2012, 12:54 CAT

BISHOP John Mambo says Mafias who plundered the country are behind the false story circulating that President Michael Sata has been assassinated. And former PF national youth Chairman Eric Chanda has urged the party's youths to call off their election victory honeymoon and defend the party.

Commenting on an online prank published on Sunday, which claimed that President Sata had been assassinated in the morning of the same day, Bishop Mambo, who is Chikondi Foundation president, said lawbreakers were not happy with the President's strong stance against corruption.

He observed that plunderers would not rest in their quest to fight back, hence the schemes to fabricate death stories about the Head of State.

"Those who were burying money, those who have the money, it's a Mafia group. The Mafia can take anybody's life for nothing. They want to use the money they stole to take somebody's life. I think he has stepped on the toes of many powerful people financially. He has stepped on the toes of Mafias and so they want to fight back. But the people of Zambia for whom the President is fighting will not just sit by," Bishop Mambo said in anger.

"These prophets of doom are bound to create civil war because the President has the mandate of other Zambians who put him in office. And all these people are bound to be upset with such alarming lies that they will have no alternative but to take up arms. But we should never allow that as a country. The rumours of President Michael Chilufya Sata being sick, we heard those during campaigns; but now he is Head of State. And the reason these people are doing this is simple; the President is a man of action.

"He calls a spade a spade. If you have stolen he will pursue you; so all those with skeletons are scared."

Bishop Mambo urged security wings to investigate and arrest the culprits.

He said such a statement could not be trivialised because the corruption fight the President had embarked on had offended many people.

"He should not take security for granted. The security wings should treat this matter serious because it borders on treason. They must see that the President is well guarded. And he himself must stop being relaxed because this is not a small thing," sad Bishop Mambo.

"Are you God yourself that you can be wishing someone dead? And what do you achieve by wishing someone dead? We will support him because we have seen for now that he is a friend of the poor. And when he abandons us we will remind him to get back into the right track. He is not an angel, but he has demonstrated that he is a worker; and this is what we wanted as Zambians."

According to a link to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the site ended President Sata's biography with the announcement of his ‘assassination' in the early hours of Sunday.

The post appeared on Sata's profile on the free online encyclopedia, which anyone can edit, on Sunday under the heading "Death".

"Michael Sata was assassinated in the early hours of the 22nd of January. He was killed through a single shot to the chest, which proved to be fatal," it read.

But President Sata's special assistant for press and public relations George Chellah described the story as malicious, sadistic and unfounded.

Labels: JOHN MAMBO, MICHAEL SATA

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