Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:45:36 +0000 It is becoming an all too familiar refrain for those in authority to abuse their power and expect that the society will remain indifferent and the victims too traumatized to speak out or seek recompense. It is one thing to use authority to victimize innocent individuals and another to then humiliate them into rectifying the wrong doing. We are referring to the issue of deported father Viateur Banyangandora who was unceremoniously bundled into police vehicles by unknown people who later turned out to be state agents. They literally abducted him from Lundazi to Lusaka and then he was deported. The only ostensible reason for the deportation was that he spoke for the people. At the time however, the government gave all manner of excuses bordering on n suggesting that the priest was a contagious spy and foreign plant with a mission to destabilize the country. As it turns out […]
