By Jane Mlambo| Goodness and Mercy Ministries founder Prophet Tapiwa Freddy believes residents of Glen View where his church was domiciled do not like him as witnessed by wild celebrations when City of Harare demolished his church structure on Wednesday.

Speaking on Facebook live, a tearful T Freddy said Glen View people who are benefitting from a borehole he drilled for them celebrated when his structure was going down.

“I saw locals in Glenview celebrating as the structure went down. Remember this is a place I grew up in and I know I have a lot of enemies there which is ok.

“But the same people who celebrated are the same people benefiting clean borehole water that is at the facility,” said Freddy.

He added that he was operating on a temporary lease license he got from council accusing the municipality of failing to communicate with him prior to the demolition.

“We were operating on a temporary lease from the city council. We were even paying the legal dues of that temporary lease to council. We were complying to the dictates of that lease which instructed us to strictly stick to non-permanent structure hence the tents the shed, which is removable, that we constructed,” he said.

Freddy queried why the city council ignored to communication and choose the humiliation way despite a lease agreement between the two parties.

“Why did you choose to humiliate me by demolishing the structure instead of communicating with me to remove my structure peacefully. Even a four hours notice would have allowed us to remove materials we can re-use in building elsewhere,” said Freddy.