adminTHE death sentence High Court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi, handed Tapiwa Makore’s killers, is welcome.
It’s a warning to those who believe in rituals as a way to become rich overnight that crime does not pay.
Shedding blood for ritual money should be condemned in its strongest terms.
People should simply learn to work hard and respect the sanctity of life.
In most cases, related to ritual money chasers, the perpetrators commit heinous crimes like murder, rape and, even aggravated indecent assault, and they sometimes even get away with it.
Over the years, most of these offences were being concealed yet victims were still looking for justice.
In Tapiwa Jr’s case, close neighbours, including the uncle he was named after, were involved in this murderous act.
It’s a clear sign the boy was surrounded by evil people, who were meant to give him a better life.
His body was found disfigured and dismembered into pieces with the head missing.
The schoolboy was buried without the head, which is believed to have been used for ritual purposes.
Although the case dragged on for three years, justice was finally delivered and the ritual killers are now behind bars, awaiting their fate, after they were sentenced to death.
Last month, Justice Mutevedzi convicted Tafadzwa Shamba of murder while the boy’s uncle, Tapiwa Makore Senior, was found guilty of being an accomplice, after he provided his house for the commissioning of the crime.
Shamba confessed to the murder and that the boy’s body parts were needed by a sangoma to boost their cabbage business.
As strange as it may sound, sacrificing an innocent boy’s life to boost business was never a solution.
What is still hurting Tapiwa Makore’s family, especially the mother, is the whereabouts of the head of her beloved son.
The case has been concluded but the whereabouts of the head still remains a mystery.
The distraught mother boldly told the media she would not find rest until the spirit of her son haunts the killers.
The mother is convinced that there were more people involved in the murder.
With many people still to come to terms with the young boy’s gruesome murder, would-be ritual money-chasers have been warned that the practice does not pay.
In life, there are no shortcuts to success.
In business, proper planning is needed for any enterprise to yield results.
Lazy and evil people, who are sacrificing young children’s lives for quick money, should be arrested.
Those, who were thinking of performing ritual money, should change their minds and work hard.
Zimbabweans are known to be hard workers who should not stoop so low by engaging in ritual money activities.
Such practices have soiled our image as a nation of hard workers.
It’s very unfortunate that we still have some people who believe in ancient ways of boosting businesses. Let’s desist from these ways of trying to get rich.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter