The sponsor church of Shamberere National Polytechnic has allayed fears of mystical spells that have led to the death of several students in quick succession in the recent past.
Addressing new trainees during a prayer/orientation day, the Friends Quaker Church Malava General Superintendent Cleopas Kharinda assured the learners that the institution was in safe hands, rubbishing the deaths as having nothing to do with the polytechnic’s operations and growth into a national institution.
The superintendent also called on the local administration to step up their war against illicit brew and drug and substance abuse being peddled around the institution targeting the learners.
Kharinda urged the new students to embrace religion, noting that they were a target of many interested parties from within who are out to benefit from their huge numbers.
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The Malava yearly meeting presiding clerk Dr Harrison Kavingwa said the church was concerned by the saddening deaths, hence the need for the church to swing in and sanctify the institution from any bad spells cast against its well-being.
Kavingwa, who is also the institution’s Board of Governors member in charge of education, training, research and innovation, stated that the deaths were isolated cases which occurred outside the institution and could not be linked to the management.
He at the same time blamed a section of the media for being used to spread propaganda and malice following the positive changes being effected to meet the national status requirements.
By Wakhungu Andanje
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