Vapositori churches are known for encouraging and practically teaching Zimbabweans curious techniques of attacking ZRP cops.
Zimbabweans have in the last 24 months reveled under the theme Tsvimbo Yemupositori Kumapurisa- “the Vapositori’s long stick must be used tto bash ZRP cops.”
This development saw the church leader, Madzibaba Ishmea whose group brutally assaulted police officers two years ago, rise to the position of a community Robin Hood hero. The theme “beat up all ZRP cops” continued as Ishmea went underground and was missing for several days with both CIO and CID officers failing to trace his whereabouts. He was thus hailed as a near immortal when he resurfaced over a week later earning himself the title Madzibaba Ishmael (although his real name was Ishmea). That appearance fueled the fame while also fanning his flame as the only church leader whose church goes on record for physically withstanding against the police.
Zimbabweans this week however complained when they noticed a group of Bishops from the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) urging Zimbabweans to pray for the country’s leadership and stop resorting to violence to solve contradictions. ACCZ is an umbrella body representing apostolic and Zion churches in the country.
Speaking soon after arriving from a two-week tour of Israel, Bishop Noel Charuma said as churches, they would continue to rally behind President Mugabe as he was constitutionally elected by the people.“We are happy for our President and proud of him because when we were in Israel, people there considered him the African President”, he said.
“It is surprising that some churches are inciting violence at a time they should be praying for the leadership as required by the word of God. We encourage people to pray to God even when things are hard. We have to turn to God as a nation. That is the only way of finding solutions to our problems. Violence will never take us anywhere but will leave us worse off.”
Bishop Choruma added: “Our responsibility and aims as churches is to pray for our leaders and our Government so that God intervenes. We also pray for President Mugabe to continue leading us with knowledge and wisdom. We are against those churches that condemn the leadership.”
Head of delegation and ACCZ secretary general Reverend Matthias Tsine said people should respect any leader appointed by God.
“We as the ACCZ encourage Zimbabweans to respect our President and seek divine intervention rather than going against the President,” he said.
After a snap survey it emerged howevet the ACCZ leaders are the small number who have been used by Robert Mugabe to sing for him at airport jet’ins and other state functions.