Wed, 08 Mar 2017 09:59:20 +0000 By OSCAR MALIPENGA and SANDRA MACHIMA GOVERNMENT has confiscated travel documents for the church group calling itself Lesedi Seven under the Church of Christ following the death of eight people in a stampede at the Olympic Youth Development Center (OYDC) in Lusaka on Monday. Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo told Parliament that passports of the organizers of the church conference had been confiscated pending investigations because the conveners of the gathering were foreigners. Eight people died while 28 others were injured in a stampede at OYDC as 35,000 people invited by the church jostled to enter the premises to receive food hampers. The victims were among the huge crowd which the group called Lesedi Seven under the Church of Christ had invited for prayers at OYDC. Mr Kampyongo told Parliament yesterday the unfortunate incident was partly due to failure by the organizers to observe the provisions of the […]
