Chiefs Council President, Fortune Charumbira has mocked prophets in the country accusing them of failing to foresee cyclone idai which ravaged and terrorised Manicaland communities specifically in Chimanimani and Chipinge.

Charumbira who is no stranger to controversy said prophets failed the nation as they could have foretold that people were going to die in the tropical cyclone.

“This issue before us is very difficult because no one knew about it and someone said to me that the prophets we have – why did they not tell us?

“How do they prophesy because here they did not see that people were going to die? The issue is that the prophets that we have — their capacity is now questionable.

“Someone who identified themselves as a prophet actually approached me and started narrating what chiefs must have done, and he came up with all sorts of philosophies and theories about Chimanimani and Zimbabwe, but they did not foresee this happening.”