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Makandiwa's church denies links to satanic wrist bands which turned kids into baboons
14 Mar 2013 at 06:11hrs | Views
A Class of Grade 5 pupils at Hatcliffe 1 Primary School has reportedly gone for three days without lessons following the unceremonious departure of their teacher amid a satanism scare that hit the school last week.
The teacher, identified as Farai Bhunu, who is said to be a member of Prophet Makandiwa's UFI church, escaped the wrath of angry parents at the school last week following allegations that he gave two pupils wrist bands which they allege are linked to Satanism. The wrist bands were allegedly inscribed with the UFI church brand.
The church has however, since disowned the wrist bands saying they belonged to an Asian car manufacturer. The two pupils reportedly developed 'vampire teeth' and baboon fur resulting in angry residents threatening to mete instant justice on the teacher. He has the police, who reportedly escorted him out of the school in a blanket, to thank for being safe. This seems to have forced him not to set foot at the school again resulting in his class' learning being compromised.
It has since been established that Bhunu was a Relief teacher at the school, standing in for the qualified teacher, Ms Gunzvi, who is on leave. It was further established that half of the school pupils never attended lessons of Friday following the mayhem at the school the previous day.
Parents who spoke to our news crew were said they were still in fear and they have instructed their children not to communicate with strangers.
"We are still in fear following the Satanism scare at the school and we have since instructed our children not to entertain strangers on the road. We are are also scared of motorists with UFIC stickers and we wonder why they are following Bhunu's actions," said one of the parents.
The school head, Fungai Koza said it was a delicate matter which she could not comment on as it is under investigation and referred all the questions to her superiors. Acting provincial education director Edward Shumba promised to furnish our news crew with a response today.
Meanwhile, United Family International Church, UFIC, through its spokesperson, Pastor Prime Kufakunesu claimed the wrist bands are not from Prophet Makandiwa's church.
"We are expecting Zimbabweans to be mature not to believe lies being spread by dirty minds. To be honest yopu will never find anyone who claims to have witnessed those pupils changing into baboons or vampires. Those were falsehoods spread by people meant to attack the church. I cannot confirm or deny membership of that Hatcliffe teacher because UFIC is a big family. From what we have gathered, the wrist bands were of Hyundai where there was a promotion they were running," he said.
Kufakunesu said their regalia being distributed to their members stamps their belief in the anointing of Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa.
"UFIC is not the only one with regalia, but other churches like Methodist, Catholics and many more use such regalia in the form of mazambia or clothes," he said.
The teacher, identified as Farai Bhunu, who is said to be a member of Prophet Makandiwa's UFI church, escaped the wrath of angry parents at the school last week following allegations that he gave two pupils wrist bands which they allege are linked to Satanism. The wrist bands were allegedly inscribed with the UFI church brand.
The church has however, since disowned the wrist bands saying they belonged to an Asian car manufacturer. The two pupils reportedly developed 'vampire teeth' and baboon fur resulting in angry residents threatening to mete instant justice on the teacher. He has the police, who reportedly escorted him out of the school in a blanket, to thank for being safe. This seems to have forced him not to set foot at the school again resulting in his class' learning being compromised.
It has since been established that Bhunu was a Relief teacher at the school, standing in for the qualified teacher, Ms Gunzvi, who is on leave. It was further established that half of the school pupils never attended lessons of Friday following the mayhem at the school the previous day.
Parents who spoke to our news crew were said they were still in fear and they have instructed their children not to communicate with strangers.
The school head, Fungai Koza said it was a delicate matter which she could not comment on as it is under investigation and referred all the questions to her superiors. Acting provincial education director Edward Shumba promised to furnish our news crew with a response today.
Meanwhile, United Family International Church, UFIC, through its spokesperson, Pastor Prime Kufakunesu claimed the wrist bands are not from Prophet Makandiwa's church.
"We are expecting Zimbabweans to be mature not to believe lies being spread by dirty minds. To be honest yopu will never find anyone who claims to have witnessed those pupils changing into baboons or vampires. Those were falsehoods spread by people meant to attack the church. I cannot confirm or deny membership of that Hatcliffe teacher because UFIC is a big family. From what we have gathered, the wrist bands were of Hyundai where there was a promotion they were running," he said.
Kufakunesu said their regalia being distributed to their members stamps their belief in the anointing of Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa.
"UFIC is not the only one with regalia, but other churches like Methodist, Catholics and many more use such regalia in the form of mazambia or clothes," he said.
Source - HMetro
