A FAMILY from Manzununu has rushed to Chief Zimunya’s court
to resolve a mysterious case in which more than 20 relatives have been killed
by an ‘‘evil jacket’’ that is threatening to take more lives.
The Chinoona family on Sunday visited the chief’s court in
a bid to force their uncle Mutsiyabako to destroy the jacket which he gave to
their deceased father as a gift.
According to the affected family, the jacket has the spirit
of dead person, who was allegedly murdered by Mutsiyabako. They allege that
their uncle, after being troubled by the avenging spirit of the person he
killed, did underworld rituals using a jacket. He then gave the jacket to his
sister so she could hand it over to her husband as a gift.
Little did the now deceased Chinoona knew that he was being
given a killer jacket. His wife who brought the clothing was also in the dark.
In an interview at the court, Farikai Chinoona said, soon
after he wore the jacket, his late father terribly got sick and died
mysteriously.
“Our uncle Mutsiyabako gave my late father a jacket that
had the spirit of a person whom he had murdered. After wearing that jacket my
father got ill and died. This happened around 1998.
After the death of my father that spirit is now troubling
us,” he said.
“This whole issue came to light after one of my children
got possessed by the spirit of our late father and spoke out.
‘‘Through that child our late father said he was killed by
our uncle after he gave him the jacket. After this confession we came here to
the chief’s court and we were told to go to Mozambique to visit a traditional
healer.
“In Mozambique, the sangoma told us that the jacket had the
spirit of a dead person that was murdered by our uncle. He said as soon as he
wore the jacket our late father was strangled by it. The sangoma told our uncle
in his face that he was to blame for all the deaths that were happening in the
family.
He was told to destroy the jacket and removed the evil
spirit but he became evasive,” he said.
Farikai said his uncle is now absconding court.
“We have come here so that the court will help us bring our
uncle to court in order to solve this at once as per the instructions we got
from the sangoma. A lot of people have been killed.
“We are talking of more than 20 people who died
mysteriously. With regards to my family I have lost about eight children. Our
mother is bed-ridden as we speak including several other children,” he said.
Asked whether their mother knew that the jacket she was
given to give her husband was cursed, Farikai said: “She knew nothing but she
told us that she was surprised that the jacket was heavier than the luggage she
was carrying on the day she brought it home to her husband as a gift from
uncle.”
Chief Zimunya ordered his policemen to arrest Mutsiyabako
and make him appear before him and solve the case. Mnica Post
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