Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
FEARLESS preacher, Apostle Talent Chiwenga has told Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe that he belongs to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s \u201cblood cult\u201d administration.<\/p>\n
Chiwenga was responding to claims made by Kazembe that the preacher was among those who are peddling rumours about a coup or a change of government.<\/p>\n
In a video circulating on social media, Chiwenga said ruling party officials were not used to getting criticism hence he would continue to rebuke the government\u2019s \u201cfoolishness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chiwenga also slammed Mnangagwa\u2019s government for failing to uphold human rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod does not accept you to kill people. It doesn\u2019t matter who you think you\u2019re. When I rebuke you like this, I know you hate me so much because you\u2019re not used to getting rebukes. You\u2019re used to getting people calling you, \u2018mutekwa tekwa, mutakura mombe mudzi ihata\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not used to hearing a preacher calling you foolish when you do things that are foolish. I\u2019m going to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake me to the courts. Take me to the law if I have committed a crime. Why haven\u2019t you arrested me so far?<\/p>\n
\u201cCitizens have a right to speak their minds, their opinions, if they are falsehoods then why are you bothered.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me tell you Mr Kazembe Kazembe, you\u2019re a member of a blood cult. You\u2019re a member of an enterprise, an institution that survives on shedding innocent blood.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou belong to a leadership cult that has possessed this country as if it\u2019s their private enterprise,\u201d Chiwenga said.<\/p>\n
Kazembe last week said that government had noted, with \u201cgrave concern, a recent upsurge in rumors suggesting an imminent military coup d`etat in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernment would like to sternly warn purveyors of this medley of falsehoods, who include characters such as Saviour Kasukuwere, Job Sikhala and a coterie of their accomplices who we are aware of, not to cry foul when the long arm of Zimbabwean law catches up with them in due course,\u201d Kazembe said.<\/p>\n
The minister also accused Nehanda Radio among other publications of working with these individuals to spread the rumors of an \u201cimminent coup.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis narrative, which also sets an agenda for and promotes negative political activism, including coordinated fake abductions and media campaigns, has of late roped in several self-proclaimed local and international prophets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese include one US-based Nathan Humbryd of the so-called Miracle Ministries, Talent Chiwenga, a self-styled rabid anti-Government Harare First Street preacher, Simon Chiloh of the so-called Deeds of Christ Ministries and a few others,\u201d Kazembe added.<\/p>\n
Prophet Humbyrd meanwhile has reportedly called Mnangagwa \u201ca devil worshiping fiend, whose misdeeds will catch up with him soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
This comes at a time when Mnangagwa\u2019s administration is being opposed home and abroad for abusing human rights.<\/p>\n
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