A witchdoctor in Harare who misled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's entire Cabinet into believing that petroleum was oozing from a rock has been jailed for 27 months.
President Mugabe went to the extent of setting up a Cabinet committee to investigate how the country could benefit from the "discovery" after Rottina Mavhunga claimed to have discovered refined diesel at a mountainous area.
A magistrate in Chinhoyi, about 100km from Harare, said the witchdoctor deserved a custodial sentence as the government had channelled money to her fake project and which was now lost.
And get this....Mavhunga blamed the diesel claim on spirit possessions,..She said she does not know if the diesel exists.
All I've got to say is...Africa...have we come to this?...Taking economic advice from inexperienced witchdoctors?..Really?
"The court cannot be faulted for saying that the offences were premeditated and diligently executed.
"The accused lied to the nation for self-actualisation and personal benefit. Your trickery brought despondency in the nation during a dry period," the magistrate said while passing sentence.
The government later discovered that Mavhunga and her accomplices were drawing diesel from tanks left by a white commercial farmer who lost his farm during President Mugabe's controversial land reforms.
Mugabe's close ally and Zimbabwe's registrar-general, Mr Tobaiwa Mudede, who allegedly sheltered Mavhunga when she was being sought by police, was also criticised.
Mavhunga faces another charge after she allegedly exchanged a stone weighing 18kg, claiming it was gold, for a cow....Now why in the world woudl u trust someone with this kind of record?
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