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Medicineman jailed 90 years for rape of mother, daughters
2007-09-25 09:40:15
By Stephen Wang’anyi, PST, Igunga
The Resident Magistrate Court in Igunga District, Tabora Region, has sentenced a local medicine man to a 90-year jail term on being found guilty of raping a woman with her two daughters.
The sentenced medicine man is Nindwa Kundiga (40), a resident of Dasina Village in Bariadi District, Shinyanga Region.
Resident Magistrate, Donald Mamlasha, sentenced Kundiga after being satisfied with the evidence tendered by the prosecution.
It was earlier claimed in the court by the Prosecutor, Assistant Inspector of Police, Titus Manda, that the suspect committed the offence on May 5, this year at about 7pm in Kinungu Village when the trio went to seek from him a medicine, which could enable them to be married.
Manda said Kundiga told them he had the needed medicine but in order to be effective on them he had to have sex with all of them.
It was alleged that the trio acquiesced to the condition and the medicine man had carnal knowledge of all of them starting with the young daughter and ended up with their mother.
``After the accused had been through with his bestiality, he allowed the woman and one of his daughters to leave while he remained with one of the daughters whom he said they would come to fetch the next day when he would give them the needed medicine,`` said Manda.
The prosecutor further went on to claim that, the next day when the medicine was handed to them and went to use it at home by inhaling the smoke emanating from the medicine which had to be burned on charcoal, they fainted and when they regained consciousness they reported the matter to the ward secretary who facilitated the arrest of Kundiga.
Manda also added that the medicine man who had come to the village and established residence there, had been allotted a free piece of plot by the complainants in order to carry on his so-called medicinal business.
Spelling the sentence, Mamlasha said it would be a lesson to other local medicine men who nursed the behaviour of deceiving their clients into making love to them.
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