The Manyarara and Dangarembwa families have since March 18
been staying in two makeshift tents just outside the Kujeke homestead in Maondo
Village under Chief Mutasa with the intention of appeasing the late Tukai
Kujeke’s avenging spirit.
While the late Kujeke’s spirit is demanding seven beasts
from each of the two families, the Kujeke family is adamant that their own
demands need to be met first.
They are demanding that their late father’s body parts,
including his private organs, be recovered before the appeasement process
begins.
The body parts are allegedly under the Dangarembwa Shop
building at Maondo shops in Mutasa.
According to the deceased’s children, when police attended
the murder scene in 1982, they concluded that their father had drowned in a
shallow puddle where his body was found.
It was concluded that his missing body parts had been
devoured by fish.
In an interview at the Kujeke family homestead last week on
Friday, the late Kujeke’s daughters, Nestar, Lucia and Viola insisted that the
private parts had to be produced first before any process begins.
“We want our father’s private parts first. They should dig
them from under the shop and surrender them to us so that we accord our father
a befitting burial. His parts should be buried in the same grave where his
other remains were interred. Without that, we will not accept any beasts here.
They confessed that his private parts were placed under the Dangarembwa shop to
enhance sells, so we want them back,” said Nestar.
Lucia also said the two families had offered to give them
the shop instead of digging up the private organ.
“We do not care about the shop, it is cursed after all. Our
father’s spirit has been tormenting it ever since his death and we do not think
that we will be okay with running it. What we want are his body parts so that
he rests in peace. If they surrender them back, we will open the grave and bury
his body parts with the rest of his remains. If anything happens to his grave,
they will have to pay,” charged the woman.
The late Kujeke’s grandson, Gibson Kujeke, said they are in
the process of re-conducting his grandfather’s funeral 41 years after his
death.
“We had long since forgotten about the sad incident and as
you can see, we are now at a funeral once again because the perpetrators have
confessed. It is so painful as old wounds have been re-opened,” he said.
The Manyarara and Dangarembwa camped at a bushy area near
the Kujeke homestead following alleged spiritual torments on the two families
by the avenging spirit.
It is alleged that Kujeke was killed by the now late Oneday
Manyarara and three other unidentified assailants.
They allegedly harvested his body parts and sold them to
Dangarembwa, who was a businessman in the area.
When The Weekender visited the camp site last week on
Friday, only the Manyarara family members were present.
Nephew to the late Oneday Manyarara, Luke Manyarara, said
they were first told at church that their family was being tormented by
Kujeke’s avenging spirit.
“A lot of problems were befalling our family for long and
we did not know why until prophets at our church told us that it was an
avenging spirit causing all this. They claimed that our uncle, Oneday, killed
Tukai Kujeke some years back. We were told that unless we appease Kujeke’s
spirit, we will know no peace.
They say our uncle was commissioned to kill Kujeke by
Dangarembwa. The spirit demanded that we stay here, outside the Kujeke’s
homestead, as we prepare for the appeasement. We have been here for more than
two weeks now.
“We have also brewed the traditional beer that will be used
for the appeasement rituals and we believe that we will finish the process on
Friday (today),” he said.
Luke said they approached Village head Maondo and they were
given the green light to pitch their tents a few metres from the Kujeke
family’s homestead after they had explained their predicament.
Another family member, Joseph Manyarara, said the avenging
spirit is causing incessant troubles in their family, including unexplained
sicknesses, deaths and divorces.
“Our marriages are not stable because of this avenging
spirit. It does not allow us to accumulate wealth. Most of us are not employed
because of the avenging spirit. The most painful part is the unexplainable
sicknesses and deaths in the family. There is nothing we can do, but stay put
and appease the spirit,” said Joseph.
Moses Manyarara said their wives only visit to cook for
them at the camp site as no woman is allowed to sleep or stay there.
The two families have constructed Blair toilets at the camp
site and fetch water from a nearby borehole.
Inside the makeshift tents are blankets only. The
appeasement process is supposed to be done today. Manica Post
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