Zambian Man Forgives Driver Who Ran Him Over, Made Him Cripple: "Love Leads The Way"

• Brian Mpundu let bygones be bygones as he forgave the person who almost killed and left him for dead in a road accident
• The Zambian had promised revenge, and anytime his offender saw him, he would run away, fearing the repercussions of what he did
• However, Mpundu chose to forgive him and show him love as they posed for a picture and amend their differences

Zambia - A man has penned a post showing he had moved on from a painful incident where he almost died.

Brian Mpundu was involved in a terrible road accident and the driver who knocked him made him a wheelchair user.

Recovering in hate after accident

The Zambian man narrated that regardless of the agonising moment that rendered him crippled, he forgave the offender.

"Next to me is the person who almost killed me, left me for dead on the accident scene and drove off. The very person who had made me a cripple and wheelchair user. While in recovery, hate raged inside me and pushed me to recover fast with a nefarious plan of making him a cripple.

One day I met him while I was in a wheelchair, and I almost stood up to beat him, and each time he saw me even on crutches, he would run, all the time because I'd made a promise straight to his face that I would beat him up without mercy and no fear of the consequences to follow," part of the caption read.

That cycle did not last long as Mpundu made a compassionate decision to make up with the man responsible for his pain.

Warmly hugging offender, showing love

It was a normal day when the offender ran away after spotting Mpundu when the latter reached out to him.

"I stopped him and embraced him with a tight hug. I told him that 'I love you, brother', whatever happened, happened, and it's unto God that I'm alive and able to walk again.

I completely forgave him, and he cried. I could see the fear he had evaporated. Love is all we need between us, not adversity. Let love lead the way," he wrote.

Abandoned at Kenyatta National Hospital

Closer home, a Nairobi boy with sickle cell anaemia forgave relatives who abandoned him in the hospital.

Michael Otieno had every reason to be annoyed at members of his extended family who deserted him in his hour of need, but he chose forgiveness.

The teenager who suffered from sickle cell anaemia was rendered a total orphan when his parents and siblings perished in a car accident at Mai Mahiu.

His relatives, whom he thought would fill in the gap, abandoned him in the hospital where he had been receiving treatment.