| Healer’ renders patients unconscious, robs them | Send to a friend |
| Monday, 15 March 2010 11:40 |
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A guesthouse manager and his six customers have been admitted to Geita district hospital after being rendered unconscious by a traditional healer. The hospital’s medical officer in-charge, Dr Cassian Kabuche, confirmed receiving the victims of the incident on Friday. The Mwanza regional crime officer, Mr Deusdedit Nsimeki, said yesterday that he was not yet informed about the incident. However, police sources in Geita district said they were already looking for the traditional healer who was at large and also interrogating his lover. The traditional healer, who was also a guest at Annudo Guesthouse and Bar at Buyagu village in the district for a week, had incised various parts of his victims’ bodies before smearing a traditional medicine on their minor. The self-proclaimed traditional healer from Sumbawanga made away with his victims’ cash, the guesthouse’s day’s sales and mobile phones while his victims lay unconscious. A passer-by was shocked to see doors of the guesthouse rooms wide open while the guests were asleep, snoring and naked. “I moved closer to the rooms and realised that everybody was unconscious and decided to call the village executive officer,” said the passerby, Mr Kija Mabeyo. He is the headteacher of Buyagu Primary School at the village. Dr Kabuche named the victims as the guesthouse manager, Massanja Annudo, 36, as well as his customers Khadija Kangero, 31, Lucia Patrick, 30, Sofia John, 32, and Elizabeth Lucas. He said blood samples of the victims were taken for analysis. Preliminary investigations indicated that the medicine led to the victims to become unconscious and they could have died had they not been rushed to the hospital in time. One of the victims, Mr Patrick, who was treated and discharged, told reporters that the traditional healer had earlier bragged that he could make them rich overnight. The traditional healer, who was sharing a room with one of the victims, Mr Lucas, for a week at the guesthouse, directed them to leave their doors open so that he could give them medicine that would turn them into millionaires overnight. “He said the medicine would boost our fortunes and our enterprises would attract very many customers,” Mr Patrick narrated. It was at around 11pm on Friday when the traditional healer moved from one room of the guesthouse to another incising the victims and smearing the medicine, as blood oozed out of the cuts. “The traditional healer finally arrived in my room with a plate that had black medicine which he smeared on my incised skin,” she recalled. She, however, never recalled what transpired after the traditional healer had smeared the medicine on her skin, as she became unconscious. “I don’t remember what else happened until I found myself in the district hospital ward,” she said. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
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