BREBNER CHANGALA’S MISPLACED MORALITY AND SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.
Brebner Changala’s outburst against President Hakainde Hichilema and the Church is a masterclass in misplaced anger and selective morality.
His attempt to weaponise grief for political mileage exposes not the failure of the Church but the moral inconsistency of those who thrive on perpetual outrage. 
Let’s set the record straight. The National Day of Prayer, Fasting, and Reconciliation is not a platform for political score-settling. It is a solemn day for national reflection to heal, not to hurl stones. Yet, Changala wants the Church to abandon its spiritual role and become a political pressure group at his command. That is not faith; that’s manipulation in the name of piety.
It is hypocritical for Changala to accuse the Church of “dining with wrongdoers” when the same critics, not long ago, cheered leaders who looted the national treasury in the name of Christian values. Where was this moral energy when the pulpit became a political podium under the previous regime?
Silence was golden, then. Now, outrage is convenient.
As for the late president Edgar Lungu funeral impasse, it’s disingenuous to blame President Hichilema for respecting due process and not the family’s internal wrangles.
Funerals are guided by family consensus and legal procedure, not presidential decree.
President Hichilema’s restraint is not cruelty it’s governance with boundaries. Changala knows this but prefers to manufacture villains to stay relevant in the media headlines.
This talk of President Hichilema “abusing power” is hollow rhetoric. There is no abuse in letting the law take its natural course. What Changala calls “cowardice” is actually maturity, which Zambia has long demanded from its leaders.
The President’s silence in the face of noise is not weakness; it’s wisdom.
The Church has not betrayed Zambia. It has chosen reconciliation over recrimination and prayer over provocation. It has refused to be drawn into political theatre disguised as moral outrage.
The real betrayal would be a Church that abandons its divine mandate just to satisfy the bitterness of political actors still nursing wounds of defeat.
In truth, the only “merchants of vengeance” are those who preach morality with clenched fists instead of open hands.
Zambia needs healing, not hostility. It needs men and women who build, not those who burn from the sidelines.
Mr. Changala’s anger may be loud, but it lacks direction.
The Church will not become a political megaphone, and the President will not be bullied into emotional governance.
The era of reactive politics masquerading as moral crusades is over.
The message is simple: let the dead be honoured, the living be sober, and the Church remain the conscience, not the campaign wing of the opposition.
