THE Mpulungu magistrate court today ordered a 49 year old witch doctor to pay K200 000 cash or go to prison for six months in default after he was convicted of practicing witch craft.
Before Mpulungu magistrate Miyato Muyambango was Gerald Sikazwe who pleaded guilty to one count of professing knowledge of witch craft contrary to section 5(b) of chapter 90 of the laws of Zambia.
Facts before the court were that on 29th November, 2009, Moses Sikazwe and his twin brother, Aaron, heard that a witch doctor capable of making people rich by giving charms was in Posa village and they decided to consult him before he accepted so.
He told them to see him on the morning of 1st December at a prearranged venue with some ‘requirements’ and while there, they were given medicine to drink and pledge the name of a family members whom they dearly love and the twins pledged to sacrifice their father.
However, before they could finish taking the medicine, Aaron fell down and became unconscious before he was taken home to his mother were he was resuscitated.
The matter was later reported to police who apprehended the witch doctor.
And passing the sentence, magistrate Muyambango noted that though Sikazwe was a first offender who was entitled to lenience, witch doctors must stop cheating people that they could make them rich when themselves were very poor.
He observed that the tendency of searching for juju to become rich was sadly very common in Mpulungu and must come to an end.
He said foolishness drove the complainants to search for money ‘the medicine way’ adding it was folly for one to think they could become rich through witch craft.
In mitigation, Sikazwe who admitted practicing witch craft caused laughter in court when he said he had seven wives and 35 children who were going to suffer if he was sent to prison.
Sikazwe who went on to mention villages where his wives and children are dotted said he was wrong to practice witch craft adding that though he is not there for his children all the time he was not a careless father because he knew that God looks after them.
He told the packed court room that he had been practicing witch craft since 1972.
ZANIS
Yaku bane ! So this thing is real ?
Yaku bane ! So this thing is real ?i mean witch craft.
Yaku bane ! So this thing is real ? i mean witch craft.
Sometimes it is hard to draw a line whether a person is speaking the truth or you are dealing with a mental patient like this confessed witch for example.
Isn’t this a human rights issue? what happened to freedom of worship. There satanists also illegal?
Nothing was done to the brothers who admitted that they were prepared to kill their father?
Ba Nyela, ba shinka manyela, all for the riches. What would they have done with blood money?
Let’s work hard, people, it’s easier than witchcraft.
uuum let me see….he is 49years this year 2009,hence he was born in 1960 and he says he’s been doing ubuloshi since 1972….meaning he became an indoshi at the age of 12years!….wow
Witchcraft is as mythical as the unicorn
There is witchcraft at the back of US one dollar $1.
Sad events, unfortnatley people do indeed want poor wiches to make them rich. Deception.
Ubuloshi is real and usually practiced by lazy and opressed people.
We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage.All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable.
Whether or not witchcraft exists depends on your spiritual concept of life. However, in a country like Zambia which professes Christianity, such deeds are evil and cannot be tolerated. Infact the man was lucky that he didnt get instant mob justice at all.
True PF Cadre, read the zambian constitution. Freedom of worship nabanani?? And Phophetess, the only thing mythical is your intelligence. In this day and age you can honestly believe that witchcraft does not exist? Get your facts and beliefs in check. Wake up. This is the real world, these things do exist.
#9 Prophetess, if witchcraft is mythical why did Sikazwe plead guilty? Don’t you see witchdoxtor ads in sangwapo? Witchcraft is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers to inflict harm or damage upon members of a community or their property.
Read Exodus 22:18, deuteronomy 18:10, Galatians 5:20. If you don’t believe in the Bible then whose Prophet are you?