Sleepless nights as a bird is directed to collect debt.
Bulawayo – A Robert Sinyoka woman is having sleepless nights after a grey bird was reportedly sent from Tamandayi in Chipinge “to collect a debt” she failed to pay as per stipulated time and agreed period, a development that has roped in renowned local pastors to assist her.
Theresa Mguni 38, a cross border trader and operator of more than five flea market bays in and around Bulawayo travelled to South Africa three months ago to buy stock for her business, and this was the beginning of the troubles which has sent shivers in her spine countless times.
When she was from SA to buy goods, she deliberately took some bags which were stuffed with material for sale from across the border and sold the order before a dream came to her ordering her to return what she stole.
According to Ms Mguni, the dream kept coming until she sought divine intervention from prophets who warned her to look for the owner of the goods she had stolen previous months.
“I went back to Beitbridge and tried to look for the owners but that was to take me another journey into the deep jungle in search of the owners of the goods I took. I am regretting the day I picked up that did not belong to me,” said Mguni.
She also told ZimEye that she went to a village where she was directed by prophets and came across an old man in his 70s. She told her that he was waiting for her arrival three weeks to come and return the stolen goods.
“What can I do sekuru, because at the moment I do not have the goods, I sold them and I promise if you give me time I will pay you the loss, ” she said.
She was ordered to enter into a mutual agreement of paying the said amount which was calculated to $800 and she agreed. According to Mguni, sekuru gave her a small root that she said ‘I must take to SA and do another order and that the order will double the charge he demanded’. The goods that Mguni took were also valued at $400 and she was to repay her victims money and also another $400 to sekuru.
Mguni went to SA and did what she was told to do and the deal went well, that she managed to acquire $1600, which she squandered and delayed to return to sekuru with the payment for both her victims and the old man, she has admitted.
A few days after she squandered the cash, in the morning when she was taking a bath, a bird arrived from nowhere and greeted her in the bathroom and it introduced itself as sekuru Nyandima.
“I nearly fainted but I remembered that I had breached the agreement with the old man, so I am in a stressful situation as I only have $300 with me and I am failing to raise the cash on demand, ’ said Mguni who looked dejected and in shock.
Asked to shed more light about the bird, she told ZimEye that the bird is still coming every time she is at her lodgings and she is now asking for well-wishers to come to her rescue to pay off the old man.
Pastor Solomon Ncube of Christ for All Ministries told ZimEye that they also tried to assist Theresa but she does not commit herself to God and opts to go to fake prophets who tell her confusing and conflicting advices that haunt her.
Currently, Theresa is asking for anyone who can come to her rescue and she told ZimEye that she is prepared to give a collateral security for the $800 needed to pay off the debt.