{"id":60062,"date":"2024-04-24T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/police-storm-church-arrest-ecls-associate-in-front-of-congregants-and-family-members"},"modified":"2024-04-24T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:41:00","slug":"police-storm-church-arrest-ecls-associate-in-front-of-congregants-and-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/police-storm-church-arrest-ecls-associate-in-front-of-congregants-and-family-members","title":{"rendered":"POLICE STORM CHURCH, ARREST ECL\u2019S ASSOCIATE IN FRONT OF CONGREGANTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Police in Lusaka have brutally picked up one of former President Edgar Lungu\u2019s associates Martin Mbaya while he and his family were attending church service in Nyumba Yanga when officers claiming to be from central police fished him out of church much to the dismay of other churche goers<\/p>\n<p>By Press time: We were yet to establish the reasons for which he has been picked embarrassingly.<\/p>\n<p>Details coming<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Police in Lusaka have brutally picked up one of former President Edgar Lungu\u2019s associates Martin Mbaya while he and his family were attending church service in Nyumba Yanga when officers claiming to be from central police fished him out of church much to the dismay of other churche goers By Press time: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,9],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-60062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POLICE STORM CHURCH, ARREST ECL\u2019S ASSOCIATE IN FRONT OF CONGREGANTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/police-storm-church-arrest-ecls-associate-in-front-of-congregants-and-family-members\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"POLICE STORM CHURCH, ARREST ECL\u2019S ASSOCIATE IN FRONT OF CONGREGANTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. 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