Online Reporter
Midlands Bureau
A deputy headmaster at Masase High School in Mberengwa is on the run after allegedly sodomising more than 35 boys at the institution.
Anywhere Gumbo reportedly fled from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Zimbabwe (ELCZ)-run school on Friday after police arrived to conduct investigations.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko, said Gumbo is still at large.
Sources say Gumbo would lure pupils to his office to sexually abuse them.
“the police and officials from the Ministry of Education have been on the ground after they received an anonymous letter from one of the teachers over the issue,” said a source.
“The school head has a very tight policy which requires pupils to talk to him if they want to report anything and this has seen the majority of the pupils being sodomised in silence,” said a parent whose child is among the victims.
Some parents and teachers accuse headmaster Mr Albion Masukume of trying to suppress the scandal.
Mr Masukume confirmed the probe in a letter to parents but denied involvement.
“I write with sorrow to inform you that allegations of child abuse by one of our staff members were reported.
“Currently, thorough investigations by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and the police are underway,” he said in the letter.
