By Own Correspondent- Bulawayo based Johanne Masowe Echishanu Apostolic member, Madzibaba Emmanuel ‘Signature’ Mutumwa has called on the church’s senior members to focus on divisions rocking the church instead of petty issues like adverts.
The outspoken member said people should be worried about prophets who are smoking mbanje, sleeping with women and drinking beer in church.
Responding to comments by the Johanne Masowe Echishanu seniors over the rise in media advertising by emerging members, Mutumwa said there is nothing wrong in using media as a platform to inform the public about the good word of God.
According to the church’s doctrine, it is not allowed to advertise their work through media channels such as radio, television and newspapers, a senior member recently said.
“Those who are saying that adverts are not allowed in Johanne Masowe, why do they have musicians like Hosiah Chipanga singing about them? Is that not advertising?
“How many adverts have they made, if Baba Johanne said there should be no houses at the shrines, why is Madzibaba Mose staying in a house at his shrine?
“These people have divided our church, because zvimwe zvikwata held a conference in Mberengwa and some in Muzondiwa.
“I am only exonerating Madzibaba Katsiru, I have never seen any of his adverts.
“I am well informed about the shenanigans of these prophets, the fraud they are committing at their shrines but Mose and Magirazi should stay away, they should stop talking about adverts,” he said.
Mutumwa said, people who pay for adverts have money.
“Adverts are paid for, they are not for free, advert is to inform people to understand what is going on, inobhadharwa, I pay almost 20 000 RTGS for all my adverts.
“Ndee mari inotobuda nemunhu ane mari, they should stop what they are doing, I have discs they are selling.
“Ukaona mupostori akavaka imba yake pamasowe haasi mupostori, only toilets are built at the shrines for cleanliness but discs and videos are produced.
“Baba Lawrence Katsiru is the only person I can exonerate apo because he is not even aware of some of the dirt things which are happening in church.
“I am not stopping to inform people through adverts.
“Vaporofita vedu ava, I know everything about these people, they are smoking tobacco, mbanje and drinking beer.
“I have their pictures, they should keep quiet, because vamwe vatori neproblem yemudumbu nekumwa doro, mahot stuff.
“They are going to n’anga, I know their sangomas, and they are big thieves in Johanne Masowe.
“Baba Katsiru is clean, but vamwe avo are doing adverts.”
He also questioned the authenticity of the big five of the church.
“These people are no longer part of Johanne Masowe, because when they say Mathias, Gibson, Israel, Katsiru and Edward as the big five, whose big five.
“I am surprised by this big five, because Edward and Israel are doing their own things while the other three are in their own world.
“This is their own big five, ini handina big five mberi kwangu, ahead of people in this sect there is Johanne and Emmanuel.
“Big five is an instruction which was left by Julius that the church should have some leaders to help in guiding people but it is not written anywhere.
“And these should shut up their mouths, they should actually stop people from drinking beer in church.”
Added Mutumwa:
“We want pertinent issues, advert is money, hazvisi zvemahara, if you don’t have money you can’t advertise.
“Zvema adverts hazvina kana basa izvi, people should speak about vaporofita vari kunwa doro in church and the divisions which have rocked the church.
“People should talk of fraud in church but people are afraid to say the truth, because I can’t pray with drunkards, fraudsters.
“How many people have fallen victims over fake prophets in the church, some are going to snake park taking five meter long snakes, ndedzei.
“Vari kunyepera vanhu nenyoka dzenhema, prophets in Harare should stop this nonsense because If we are to tell the truth, masowe akawanda anofa because we have the truth.”
According to Mutumwa, the church of Johanne Masowe Echishanu has been divided and need collective efforts to reunite.
“In Johanne Masowe there is Jerusarema, Vadzidzi, Nguwo Tsvuku, Muchinjiko, Johanne Yechitatu, yeZambuko.
“There are so many and those are the groups which left Johanne Masowe Echishanu.
“So the church is divided and need to be brought together.
“The issue of an adverts is a small issue.
“Katsiru, Gibson and Mathias held their own conference while Edward and Israel held theirs, a short distance from each other.
“Zvoratidza kunamata here izvozvo? They should dig down into that and restore the church into order not about adverts, divisions should be dealt with.
“Let’s look at the divisions affecting the church not small issues like adverts.”-H Metro