Staff Reporter| A report circulating on social networks claiming that Contemporary Gospel Singer Kudzie Nyakudya (30) last week molested two boys in South Africa, is false and misleading.
ZimEye.com is reliably informed the report which made rounds claiming that Nyakudya also says he is backed by First Lady Grace Mugabe, is a hoax in whole. There is no way Nyakudya could have committed the offence in Capetown on Tuesday last week, for instance, when he was actually in Harare collecting his VISA from the South African embassy, the organiser and “Tiri Munyasha” musician, Rev Tobby Chivaviro reveals.
Below was his public statement:
A story has been doing rounds on social networks about Kudzi Nyakudya having sodomised some boys in Capetown on Tuesday last week and Durban during the shows held here. Let me personally express my anger over such an issue and ask God to forgive and correct whosoever is behind such a story.I am just surprised by the timing of the story, just before our RSA Concerts, im sure its perpetrators are now shamed by the way the shows turned out.
Allow me to highlight a few things here.I, personally assisted Kudzi get a new passport in Zim since his had long expired.He collected it Tuesday in Harare and they travelled with Baba Manyeruke on Wed evening arriving in Joburg Thursday morning via Intercape, my family hosted them here in Joburg, we had our rehearsals that evening before driving together to Durban on Friday.
The 4 of us , including our keyboardist were hosted at Pavilion hotel in the same apartment by our Durban pastors.Thats when we saw the story circulating and we were not only suprised but disgusted as we felt this was targeted at bringing down our Concerts..We drove back Sat evening, in time for the Joburg concert on Sunday which was again fully packed and we thanked God for that.Kudzi is shacken, devastated and down, he had to cancel a Swaziland show for Sat to go back home to his family in such times, let’s remember them in our prayers.
Baba Manyeruke and I did our best to counsell him , we even went into studio to do a hymn together, Ngatimukudze Mwari, which was an emotional but healing process for him.We don’t know the motive behind the story, but whoever is doing this to the young man may God direct you towards light.I may not know what else is happening around his life, but what happened during the week in question is what I have shared with you, thinking it might help shed some light somewhere.We are not perfect, but we seek Gods help in exposing the truth to this matter.
TIRI MUNYASHA.
Rev Chivaviro.