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The Ncandweni Christ Ambassadors founder and leader, Timothy Myeni, has been on the receiving end of a spiral-tipped spear after a recording of him going biblical on one of his drivers surfaced. The eSwatini gospel group leader didn’t however just kak out his driver for taking his truck to run personal errands, he threatened to shoot the poor man as well as curse his genitals and feet. Hell hath no fury like a false prophet.

The whole debacle started when the poor driver known as Nene (and we do mean poor as will be evident later) used the pastor’s vehicle to run a side business while selling water in villages in eSwatini. Yes, the pastor sells water to the poor, but apparently, he took umbrage with the driver also hustling on the side.

During the call, the pastor can be heard yelling profanities at Nene and calling him a Satan for betraying his trust. Not satisfied with invoking the name of Old Nick, the holy man then threatened to shoot Nene if he tried to collect his belongings from the compound where he lived.

“You won’t get them (clothes]. You are poor, you will die poor. Those clothes are mine because I bought them for you the day I paid your rent. I don’t want you, Satan… I will even tell the police that I will shoot you. You will suffer until you die, your feet and scrotum will rot,”

Jesus. The leader of the Ncandweni Christ Ambassadors sounds more like Joe Pesci in Casino than a man of God. The recording has prompted a swift response from the church/gang’s manager Anele Dloto.

“We would like to apologise to everyone who is concerned about the current unfortunate situation.”

By ‘concerned’, we assume he means horrified. And the unfortunate situation he refers to might allude to a pastor selling water to poor villages and then cursing his employee into a lifetime of decomposing balls and feet unless he gets to shoot him first.

In between all the cursing and water selling, the pastor may have forgotten some of the well-known words we find in the bible: Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips. That’s Psalms by the way.

Having bucketloads of money that you fleeced off poor people doesn’t give you permission to ignore your humanity. The sad part is that this ‘unfortunate situation’ will probably disappear and this foul-mouthed preacher will be preaching love and forgiveness next Sunday. Maybe he should consider a career in politics. He has the forked tongue for it.

It’s just not cool man, and although I don’t speak on behalf of the Man upstairs, I am sure that he probably won’t be too happy with someone who has a pit latrine for a mouth as his ‘ambassador’.

[source:sowetanlive]