As uncle Simon Mwewa Lane Television keeps enlightening the public about these fake papas, let me also share my experience.
Some time in 2019 while I was studying at ZIALE, I went to Ndola on a short break. During this period, I used to spend some time at Ndola High Court to observe how lawyers were conducting trials.
One day I met this young papa (apparently of my age). We sat on the same bench and naturally, we engaged in a conversation.
He told me that he was a pastor and he had accompanied a church member who was a female teacher. The teacher had sued the private school she had previously worked for to claim her terminal benefits and the matter was coming up for mediation on that day. Because of the confidentiality requirements in mediation, the papa was not allowed to enter the chambers and therefore he remained outside waiting. I also told him that I was a Learner Legal Practitioner and I was at court to observe trial proceedings.
Shortly, I came to learn from a court marshall that the criminal trial I was following was not going to take off so I decided to leave.
As I was about to leave, the papa followed me to ask about where I got the suit I was wearing (according to him, it looked very nice). I told him that I got it from a shop in town which was just some meters away. He asked me to show him the shop so that he could pass some time as he waited for the mediation proceedings to end.
So we walked together down the road from Ndola High Court into town. As we approached Ndola Cabinet Office, this papa from no where told me that he had just received a revelation about me. He said God was telling him that I was going to do very well in my exams at ZIALE but I was not going to pass on first attempt. He saw me passing in 7 or 8 courses out of 11.
By then I was just learning some basic cross-examination skills. So I asked him to confirm whether that was God’s revelation, or it was his own assumption based on what he had heard about ZIALE. I told him that I was also a strong Christian believer and that what he was saying was contrary to the conviction and confidence I personally had. I put it to him that his statement was not a prophecy but rather a very logical conclusion based on ZIALE’s low pass rates. He couldn’t deny this and I could see the disappointment on his face. That’s how we parted company.
Fast forward, I sat for my ZIALE exams in August that same year and when the results came out, I did not just pass in all the 11 courses on first attempt, I was infact the best graduating student!
God exposed that fake papa!