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By Gilbert Munetsi
Eight sons of a popular Chitungwiza self-proclaimed traditional healer have been reported to police for severely assaulting a man from their neighbourhood whom they accused of having stolen a cellphone.
In a recorded statement the man, Samuel Zanho (36), said he lost US$30 in the melee, and believes his attackers are responsible for its disappearance.
At the time of going to press, the complainant was waiting for a police report to seek medical attention to ascertain the degree of injury inflicted on him. The eight are yet to respond to the charges.
Zanho, who resides at House Number 6634 Unit J, Seke, was on January 2 allegedly assaulted by Sekuru Amos Kafera’s sons after they had accused him of having stolen a cellphone they claimed belonged to one of them.
According to the complainant, he was phoned by his brother who informed him the assailants had come to his house desperately looking for him.
At the time, he was in another suburb in the town and upon hearing the news, he decided to return home.
As he disembarked a commuter omnibus at Unit J Shops, he was approached by Sekuru Kafera’s sons who immediately began to physically attack him.
He alleges they assaulted him all over the body to the extent of affecting his sense of hearing. In the process, he also realised the US$30 that was in his possession was missing.
After the beating, the sons whisked him to their father’s “shrine” where the sangoma refused to cast bones to determine his innocence, but allegedly warned him to desist from stealing as he would “die in prison.”
The complaint alleges the “forced detention” was against his plea for them to report him to police, instead. The sons thus became the arresting force and their father the court, he queries.
When contacted for comment, Sekuru Kafera refuted the allegations, insisting a theft of a cellphone belonging to a member of his family had occurred.
He said soon after attending to clients who were under his consultation, he was going to make a police report.
Sekuru Kafera is popular for bragging that he is a sangoma of note who is able to assemble goblins and, recently, he was invited on radio to showcase his exploits in that faculty.
A former member of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee in the dormitory town, he claims he acquired his vast healing and exorcising powers in Mozambique where he underwent rigorous initiation before returning home to exercise them.
Investigations by Nhau however showed he has not been spared from controversy, as five months ago a docket was opened against him at the Town Centre Police Post for a get-rich-quick deal gone sour.
Sources also confided to this news portal that his sons have turned habitual delinquents who are not new to being found on the wrong side of the law.
Last month they allegedly bashed a man they accused of attempting to snatch the last of their father’s many wives, sources in the neighborhood said, preferring to remain anonymous. Nhau/Indaba
