Farai Dziva|Chief Fortune Charumbira has criticised local prophets for failing to predict the coming of Tropical Cyclone Idai.

Charumbira made the remarks last week in the Upper House of Parliament after Local Government Minister July Moyo had issued a ministerial statement updating legislators on the devastation caused by the Cyclone.Charumbira is the president of the Chiefs Council of Zimbabwe

“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 himself 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 he did not foresee this happening,” said Charumbira.