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FAITH STORIES

IT'S VERY TRUE. AND YOU borders on foolishness, if you are to
KNOW, THE SPIRIT OF GOD look at it from a human perspective?
HATES INJUSTICE, HE HATES I refused and sure enough, when I
IT. AND SO, IN YOU, HE walked out, I remembered I had left
FOUND A VESSEL WHO IS something on my desk and when
WILLING TO FIGHT, SO HE I tried my card, it wouldn’t work.
MADE SURE THAT HE HAD There are many incidences where I
YOUR BACK. BUT, WHY NOT have had to forego a fortune, just to
SIMPLY JUST BACK DOWN? stick to what I believe. Not because I
WHY DID YOU PERSIST? knew what God was going to do with
I think like I’ve told you, from child- me, but because I believed and felt
hood I was called to do what I’m very strongly in my heart that that
doing. When I look at my studies, was the right decision to take. Some-
when I look at my trajectory in life, how the Spirit of God enabled me
I think God created me to do this. to make those decisions with cour-
When I listen to Angela Chibalo- age, without regret. Once I left, the
nza’s song “Uliniumba nikuabudu” group CEO, saw something in the
(You created me to worship You), I way I conducted myself afterwards
think this is my cause and my objec- that convinced him to ensure that
tive in life, so it’s not even about me. I got what was due to me. He han-
So I can’t quit, because it’s not about dled it himself. It would have been protect children from exposure to
me, I don’t know what drives me, I easier for me, if it was about money, harmful content and to ensure sto-
know it’s not me, it’s not my own to tell him “I can even withdraw the ries that are told by the media and
righteousness, it’s not even my own letter and come back to work.” But, through film reflect our culture and
knowledge. There are many traps I didn’t. our values, especially family values,
that God speaks to me about and I Eventually, when the government and that we become a Godly nation.
jump because I hear a voice telling was looking for a credible person That’s my desire, to see the media
me, “Something is coming. If you who has values and who can be- projecting more objective stories,
confront it this way, it’s not going to come the Director of Information more clean content. To see the air-
be well.” And I have such strong in- and Public Communications, I was waves now dominated by stories that
tuition that makes me feel that this getting calls and being told the Cab- are edifying… that give hope. I saw
one is just preparing me for the next inet is discussing you, the president how digital migration would open
assignment, and I feel it so strongly, wants you, everybody is saying you the spectrum, bring in social media
I get so passionate. The things that I can manage this docket and we will and other players and I strategical-
do sometimes offend a lot of people be very happy if you don’t turn it ly applied when I saw this position.
but God tells me, “There are more down. So, you can imagine I didn’t And just like the others, I was num-
who are celebrating you.” have a Master’s degree and they had ber one again at the interview and I
to advertise the job twice to fit my was taken and I have been there now
I can tell you when I left Nation; I CV. And the rest is history. That was for five years this October, and I’ve
was in a very bad situation. I had just God because when I went for the done a good job of it. I think the last
started a family, we were not stable, I interview, there were professors of rating by SCAC, which is the body
didn’t have a Master’s degree; I had journalism, and I was number one. that rates state corporations, I was
nothing. I had written a letter to the Even though I had only one degree rated 99%, which is a rare feat. I can
Aga Khan about what I thought was and there were people with PhDs, say for sure. God has been with me.
mismanagement at the Nation and but when we sat, we went through
I thought as Secretary-General of the Public Service Commission, THE REWARDS FOR FAITH-
KUJ I needed to write about those and I appeared before the panel, I FULNESS ARE EVIDENT,
things and inform the owner of the wowed them. IT’S TRUE. AND WE REALLY
media house about some of the THANK GOD FOR YOU.
things that I thought were not right. In 2015, I thought I needed to move Not without pain though. Not with-
And the MD told me to withdraw from just policy formulation to im- out attacks, not without crisis. Every
the letter or lose my job. And some- plementation, which is now what day there will be a crisis or another.
how, you know that courage that I’m doing by enforcing Cap. 222, to I know a lot of brothers and sisters

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