A critically ill Chitungwiza man is living on the street as a
result of an ongoing row with his younger sibling over their deceased parents’
house in Unti J, Chitungwiza.
The 38-year-old Intergrate Soroti who is a critical
diabetes patient was chased out of his rented apartment and is living outside
his late parents’ home with his wife and four minor children.
Intergrate’s brother Hondo is said to have declared war on
his sibling and has refused to give him shelter since Monday.
Intergrate told H-Metro that when he returned home, his
brother refused to let them into the house and told him that he and his wife
aren’t his relatives, the house is his and there’s nothing he can do about it.
“He told me that my wife and I aren’t his relatives, hapana
zvamunondibatsira nazvo, the Government, the police cannot do anything to me
because the house is mine, because I am the lawful owner of this house,” he
said.
Initially, Integrate and his wife Loice Josias, 32, were
living at his parents’ house, and when his mother passed away in November last
year, his brother Hondo secretly looked for a place for them to stay.
“He looked for an apartment for me without my knowledge
when I was admitted in hospital, he then moved my belongings to that house
without my knowledge, and when my wife returned from the hospital visit, and he
took her to the new house and told her that he would be paying the rentals,
just to get rid of me.
“This past weekend the landlady told me to move out because
the rentals weren’t being paid for the last three months, she took our things
out, and I tried calling him in vain,” said Intergrate.
His wife Loice said their former neighbours at the rented
apartment then organised transport for them to be moved to their family home.
“Zvinhu zvaburitswa panze, vavakidzani vedu vakazobatanidza
mari so that we could get transport to bring us back home, when we got
home, we knocked the gate until they had
no choice but to leave us outside because my husband’s brother was ignoring our
knocks.
“He hasn’t opened the gate ever since and we are just
sleeping outside with his bedridden brother,” she said.
Hondo has been seen several times leaving his house through
the back by jumping the precast wall and hasn’t been using the main gate ever
since his brother and his family moved there.
Hondo’s phone was unreachable when H-Metro visited their
residence but was reliably informed that he had been seen jumping the wall
getting in prior to our arrival.
As soon as the news team left, Hondo threw a letter to the
neighbours who live next to his house and in the letter, he said he was
grieving his mother’s death and is bitter over how his brother treated their
mother when she was alive.
In his letter he also said, the war, just as his name, is
infinity as he is selling the house soon after the lockdown and it will end
when he dies. H Metro
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