Bishop Kaela is still Bishops Council of Zambia SG, says registrar
WRANGLES in the Bishops Council of Zambia have now taken a new twist with the Registrar of Societies indicating that Bishop Abel Kaela is still the secretary-general.
According to the documents at the Registrar of Societies, Bishop Kaela, Fred Chingole, who is the council spokesperson and others who have reportedly been removed from their offices, are bonafide members.
And the council constitution which was submitted to the Registrar of Societies for the grouping to be legally recognised states that elective members cannot be removed from their positions by the president.
Council president, Bishop Abinala Manda told the Daily Nation last week that Bishop Kaela was no longer secretarygeneral.
Bishop Manda said Bishop Kaela was excommunicated from the BCZ last October but noted that he had allegedly continued passing himself of as secretary- general.
He said Bishop Kaela was no longer a member of the BCZ, and therefore all the statements he was issuing were his own opinion and not that of the council.
But in an interview yesterday, council spokesperson Bishop Chingole said the founder members of the council including Bishop Kaela and others who have been removed from their offices have engaged the Chief Registrar of Societies to clear the matter.
He said this time around the founder members of the council would not fight with the president Bishop Manda in the media but seek the intervention of the Registrar of Societies.
“All the documents are there to show that we are the members who formed the council. Those people Bishop Manda want to be occupying the offices are not even known,” he said.