By Irvine Syazyombo
Three men who were wearing blue suits and carrying a brief case each strolled into the shopping mall to hire a taxi.
As soon as they approached a taxi rank, twelve young men with car keys in their hands rushed and surrounded the trio with various offers to persuasively have their taxis hired.
The three middle aged men chose a slim young man, Mwenya, to whom they announced their destination.
“Take us to Kalindu Township,” one of them ordered.
The young taxi driver hastily slumped into the driver’s seat .The three passengers hurriedly boarded too before the car sped off.
After they had driven for about ten minutes through the third world city, the man in the front drivers’ seat suddenly drew a gun and pointed it to the head of the driver.
“Take us to the outskirts of the city,” Chandwe who was also a bishop of the Antiock Church Pentecostal Water Ministries, ordered.
Shocked, Mwenya had no option but to take them to their destination.
When they reached the destination, the bishop ordered Mwenya to walk into the bush with the revolver held to the back of his head.
When they were in the bush, Bishop Chandwe ordered his two disciples to tie the young man’s hands and legs ‘so that work for God’ could be carried out.
They also stuffed pieces of cloth into the victim’s mouth so that he could not be heard screaming.
The two muscular men firmly held the poor weak young man by the legs and arms while the bishop stripped the victim before slicing off his scrotum and penis which organs would mysteriously help him grow rich.
Overwhelmed with pain, Mwenya kicked helplessly but it was too late.He fainted before the three ‘holy men’ cut off the head, peeled off the facial skin and plucked the eyes from the sockets which could help the bishop ‘see through worshipers lives as prophesy’.
After the gruesome murder of the innocent man, ‘the man of God’ put the human parts in his briefcase before the murderers left the corpse to rot in the open.
It was after a month when a woman discovered the body in a decomposed state. Fellow taxi drivers only recognized the body because of the familiar clothes the deceased had won on the fateful day.
The next day was Sunday. Bishop Chandwe preached and healed congregants of chronic illnesses and paralysis. Cripples abandoned wheelchairs and crutches. The dumb talked. The deaf heard. The blind saw. To others he prophesied riches and prosperity.
To some ill people he gave ‘holy water’, mortuary waste after washing corpses, which contaminated liquid he had bought from a mortuary attendant.
With the ‘presence of the holy spirit’, numerous congregants became limp and dizzy before falling onto the floor with the support of the bishop’s henchmen.
It soon became a confusion of limp people staggering, reeling, rolling on the floor and screaming while the bishop prayed in incomprehensible tongues.
Having seen the miracles and experienced ‘God’s’ presence, hundreds of congregants filled a ten waste paper basket with cash. They would give more tithes and offerings next Sunday.
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