A Daughter’s Pain
….Losing Her Mother, Watching Her Father Taken Away…
Lusaka, May 22, 2025
How does a child find strength when her world collapses in a blink of an eye?
At her mother’s burial, Hon. Chilangwa’s young daughter wept uncontrollably her cries cutting through the silence of the nation like a wound left open. Dressed in black, her small frame shook as she clung to her father, whispering words no child should ever have to say: “Don’t leave me, Dad like Mum has left me.”
But if burying her mother wasn’t enough, what followed made it worse.
Just a few minutes, the girl watched in stunned silence as plainclothes police officers who escorted Hon. Chilangwa from Mukobeko maximum prison i kabwe quietly stood up and took her father Hon. Chilangwa and away. No warning. No goodbye to the child who had already lost too much.
How does a daughter process such pain? One parent lowered into the ground, the other taken back to a place where you only talk to someone on a small window and in few minutes?
“She didn’t even cry this time,” said a family member. “She just stood there, eyes empty.”
The world watched, but she stood alone. Her innocence shattered not once, but twice first by death, then by the cold hands of justice. And in that moment, the question lingered heavy in the air: Lord, how do we comfort a child who has no one left to run to?
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Chilangwa Family. May God comfort you all.