Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe over the weekend accused his former Vice President Joice Mujuru and other top members if the ruling Zanu-PF of employing Nigerian witch doctors to kill him.
The Africa Review reports that President Mugabe made the strange allegation at his lavish 91st birthday held at a top hotel in the resort town of Victoria Falls.
Zimbabwe had sacked Mujuru and 10 oministers in 2014 after accusing them of planning to assassinate him and now says she is being too desperate to usurp power from him, even after he won the 2013 presidential election.
Mugabe said: “We managed to know what (Ms) Mujuru was doing at her house, even consulting witchdoctors.
“Recently she invited two Nigerian witchdoctors. We heard that they were specialists in the field of witchcraft. They were specialists, yes, but specialists in robbing people, foolish people.”
Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since the country gained independence in 1980, said Mujuru -who was his deputy for 10 years – was directed to buy chickens which were then named after herself, himself, his wife and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before performing a ritual naked.
He continued: “Where do these Nigerians get the powers to entrap the soul of a human being into a chicken or sheep and then kill him?
“God is for us all. I also go to church, I do not believe in superstition. We were taught God’s teachings.”
