A SCHEDULED exhumation of the body of the d3@d woman, whose case lifted the lid on Madzibaba Ishmael’s cult and led to his arrest, was not conducted as planned in Nyabira yesterday.
Relatives of deceased woman, who d!3d last year in November at the shrine and was buried without their knowledge, were at the compound yesterday ahead of a planned exhumation of her body.
Madzibaba Ishmael was arrested in a pre-dawn raid by police on Tuesday.
Memory Mukanairi, the mother of the late woman, said she just wants to see the remains of her daughter irrespective of the stage of decomposition.
Her daughter d!3ed at 27.
Mukanairi was married to Madzibaba Gideon, who is one of Madzibaba Ishmael’s closest advisers.
Both Madzibaba Gideon and Madzibaba lshmael were arrested together.
Mukanairi said:
“We were not informed of her d3@th and just heard about the issue through neighbours.
“We then went to the farm, where we were advised to seek protection, since they are reported to be violent.
“The place is called Canaan and whatever they work for goes to the leader, Ishmael, all the proceeds go to him.
“My daughter d!3d and was buried by four men who are not even related to her.”
“We want to see our child exhumed, we were not given the chance to mourn our child because of this indoctrination.”
She added:
“When I was still with my husband in Nyabira, I was the one who helped my children to get birth certificates because we were not allowed to go to hospitals or clinics.
“So, it is really painful to me that my child d!3d during child birth because now I am thinking that, maybe, if I had been there she was not going to go through that and I was going to help her.
‘Right now, all that I want is to see the body, or bones, of my child, maybe, I will get closure.”
She said the pain has been unbearable.
“When we went to see where she is buri3d, I was hurt because it does not appear as if a grown person can fit into that shallow grave that I saw.
“We came here today with the hope that she will be exhumed and the necessary tests are done but it seems like we will have to wait sezvo nhasi pasima zvazoitika.”
Mukanairi said what forced me to escape from Madzibaba Ishmael’s cult was when she was accused of causing the d3@th of one of her step children.
“When my husband married another wife, they had a child and that child got sick but, unfortunately, I was accused of the d3@th of that child even though I took that child as my own.
“I was deeply hurt by that,” she said.
Madzibaba Gideon’s brother said they have not heard from him since he joined Madzibaba Ishmael’s church.
“We are here today because we want to go with our child, she d!3d and was buried without our knowledge,” he said.
“Chitendero cherudzii chinoti hama dzemufi hadzicheme mumwe wavo?
“We hope that our child will be exhumed and we get the closure that we are looking for, we are hurting as a family.”
However, Madzibaba Gideon has denied claims by his ex-wife that their daughter was buri3d the same day she d!3d last year.
Madzibaba Gideon, whose real name is Sibiniyo Chikurunhe, told source that his ex-wife was just a bitter woman.
He said that their daughter d!3d due to food poisoning and was buri3d in a proper manner.
He accused Memory of tarnishing his reputation, and that of their church, by making false accusations.
Source H-Metro
