Detectives at the Rumuolumeni Divisional Police Station in Port Harcourt, Rivers State are investigating a case involving three persons who allegedly transformed to cats.
One of the suspects is a twelve-year-old boy simply identified as John who had transformed to a cat and was caught by policemen at the Rumuolumeni Division.
DailyPost reporter who visited the scene of the incident reports that the policemen became curious after noticing that a particular cat was always running across the police station and decided to lay ambush for the animal.
It was further gathered that after the animal was caught and the policemen attempted to kill it, it mysteriously transformed to a boy.
The twelve year old boy later confessed that he was initiated by one aged man named Womadi, adding that there are many of his kind in Port Harcourt, and their mission was to suck human blood and inflict their victims with diseases.
The paramount ruler of Rumuolumeni in Oibio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Eze Ndubueze Wobo confirmed the transformation of three members of his community into cats.
Eze Wobo told Dailypost that one of the men, who is popularly called PAPA, confessed to him at the police station that he initiated the people to suck human blood and inflict their victims with diseases.
Wobo said the victim listed some items which would be used to cleanse initiated children, some which include native alligator pepper, Local gin, Local kola nut and so on.
Some of the residents of the community, including the security operatives who captured the cat before it changed into a human being said that the man confessed that he used packaged beef roll and other things to initiate the victims, who are mainly schoolchildren.
Chinotimba witchcraft plot: pair in court
by: Ntungamili Nkomo
THE long-standing power struggles in Zanu PF assumed an awful trajectory on Tuesday when two party officials appeared in court accused of plotting to “assassinate” rival party contenders using WITCHCRAFT.
Among the alleged targets was politburo member Kumbirai Kangai and war veterans leader Joseph Chinotimba.
The suspects, Zvenyika Machokoto and Judith Muodzeri, believed to be husband and wife aspiring for higher political office, appeared before a Mutare magistrate and charged with “conspiracy to engage in practices of witchcraft” under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.
They were remanded to February 16 on US$50 bail each.
The court heard that sometime last week, the two allegedly consulted a self-styled prophet, Jimmy Motsi, in Bindura district and asked him to concoct witchcraft-induced methods to kill their Zanu PF rivals whom they accused of thwarting their rise through the party’s ranks.
On the couple’s hit list were Kangai, Chinotimba, Buhera North Member of Parliament William Mutomba, Tapiwa Zengeya, Kenneth Madziturira and Saul Tsuma - all senior Zanu PF members in Buhera district.
If the “assassination” plot succeeded, the court heard, the two would stand a better chance of campaigning to represent Zanu PF in the parliamentary and senate elections widely expected this year. In turn, they promised to pay the prophet handsomely.
Reports of Zanu PF officials seeking help from traditional or spiritual leaders is nothing new. Their gullibility was exposed in 2008 when they were duped by a female school drop-out posing as a n’anga to believe she could extract refined petroleum from rocks.
Gordon Chavunduka, the president of the 50,000-member Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers’ Association (ZINATHA), blamed the Bindura incident on lack of internal democracy within Zanu PF.
Chavunduka told the Voice of America's Studio 7 on Tuesday that the lack of succession debate in Zanu PF was encouraging witchcraft within the party.
“I agree yes, any situation like that would create witchcraft to those who believe in it,” he said.
Under Zimbabwean law, witchcraft is a criminal offense punishable by a fine or a five-year jail term.