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Tendai Gukutikwa
Weekender Reporter
THREE Mutasa teen sisters have not been going to school for the past year after they got crippled within a space of two days.
It is alleged that their late uncle’s avenging spirit is behind the unfortunate development that is affecting the three girls in Dangarembwa Village under Chief Mutasa’s area.
The late George Musatukana’s avenging spirit has been allegedly wreaking havoc within his younger brother, Richard’s family, resulting in his daughters, Talent, Stancia and Shalene Musatukana, getting paralysed last year.
All girls mysteriously collapsed at school, only to wake up with paralysed legs.
The spirit is also manifesting on Stancia, and alleging that George was killed by his wife’s relatives following a marital dispute.
George’s spirit is also claiming that other family members are responsible for pushing his spirit to seek vengeance through the Musatukana girls.
Manifesting on Stancia before scores of people who had gathered to witness the appeasement of Tukai Kujeke’s avenging spirit in Maondo Village recently, George’s spirit said it is crippling the girls against its own will.
“I do not want to do this but my hands and my feet are tied. I am not supposed to be seeking vengeance on my own flesh and blood but I cannot stop it. Ndakatsipikwa (My spirit was subdued),” cried Stancia as her uncle’s spirit manifested on her.
George accused his younger brothers Lazarus and Tafadzwa Musatukana of visiting white garment apostolic sects to arouse his spirit against the Musatukana girls.
What baffles the girls’ mother, Mary Mbwando, is that each time they leave their homestead, her girls’ condition gets better and they are able to walk.
This has resulted in her leaving the homestead.
“Each time I leave home with my girls and stay with my relatives they get better but when we are at the Musatukana homestead, they get paralysed and cannot attend school. We have since left home because of this sickness,” she said.
She said she is yet to come to terms with the fact that her children are crippled and no longer go to school.
The girls were all in secondary school.
“It is hard for my family because I have to fend for these girls by myself. Stancia was in school in Harare while Shyene was in Mutare. I received the news that they had gotten crippled on the same day.
“The following day, Talent’s teachers called me from school and told me that she had also fallen ill and could no longer walk. I tried talking to my husband’s relatives but they failed to help me, yet my husband was the one who contributed more during Bamkuru George’s funeral.
“He is also the one who travelled with his brother’s body to Harare for post mortem but the Musatukanas are now treating these girls like they are nothing,” she said.
Speaking through Stancia, George’s spirit said on the night that he was killed, he had a misunderstanding with his wife and as a result, her relatives assaulted him to death.
“On the fateful night, I had a misunderstanding with my wife and she ran off. When I went after her, I met with my wife’s relatives and they assaulted me while accusing me of being abusive towards my wife.
“They then killed me and when they realised that I was dead, they took me to Mundenda cemetery and stage managed suicide to make people believe that l had hanged myself. Among the perpetrators was a policeman who masterminded the whole scenario.
“My wife killed me, together with her relatives. I did not kill myself as you were made to believe. I was killed and I am demanding that my death be avenged,” the spirit said.
In an interview with The Weekender, Village Head Dangarembwa said he was glad that the truth is finally coming out.
He said Musatukana’s alleged suicide was at one time under police investigation, adding that his body was exhumed for post mortem eight months after his death.
“What the spirit is saying is true, George was found hanging from a tree and the neighbourhood policeman who is being fingered here today ordered his family to bury him with all his belongings on the same day that his body was found and we did exactly that. The neighbourhood policeman rushed everything and we all agreed as we thought that George had killed himself.
“However, eight months after his burial, police from Mutare came and exhumed him after telling us that his death was still being investigated.
“His body was taken to Harare for post mortem but nothing concrete came out. After a few days, George was reburied with his belongings,” said Village Head Dangarembwa.
The matter was transferred to Chief Mutasa’s court.
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