Helen Atsenga has accused a city con witchdoctor taking advantage of her desperate situation and toying with her privacy.
The 53-year-old mother-of-one says the mganga after he tricked her into having sex with him before gathering all the evidence and taking off. The matter is booked at Buru-buru police station.
Helen Atsenga received a life-changing call from a stranger. She was worried about her only daughter who she had not seen in over 10 years and the, “the man, who introduced himself as a prophet claimed he knew all about it and was sent by God to heal my broken heart.”
Atsenga, 53, claims that 10 years ago, her daughter Jane Muhenge, a student at local university eloped with Cameroonian. “I think witchcraft is behind all this and is making her not get in touch with her mother,” said the caller.
Desperation to find her lost child drove her to city churches where she dropped off her contacts to hundreds of preachers hoping for divine intervention.
“That prophet man that he could bring back my daughter in three days but he needed Sh3000 for fasting and prayers,” she said.
Atsenga sent money via M-pesa and as per the man instructions, “I bought five metres of pure white cloth, six candles of different colours and incense for the prophet’s special prayers.”
“The following day, he called again for Sh4,500 for my cleansing,” Atsenga claims. “He instructed me to put the stuff in a black polythene bag with Sh300 and another Sh600 for buying a cockerel but his son did not show up to collect them,” she says.
Money wired to different numbers was received by a Bwete Umar. This was suspicious but the determined mum ignored her gut feeling and agreed to deliver these prayer items to the prophet’s son.
“I was expecting his ‘son’ but when he settled down and started talking about my daughter, I decided to give him attention, hopping for some results,” Atsenga said.
The ‘prophet’ then lit candles and placed them around the white cloth to form a circle.
“He then covered my face with a leso and I heard weird voices, which he interpreted as ‘god’ directing me to strip naked since I was naked when conceiving my daughter and naked when giving birth to her,” she said,
“Meanwhile, he forcefully pushed me to the ground, touched me before entering inside me…he had sex with me without protection for around three hours, folded the white cloth with the rest of the prayer gadgets and left,” narrates Atsenga in tears.
She added, “It was only after he had left that I realised, he used extraordinary powers to rape me. My attempts to reach him were futile and I decided to report the matter at Buru-buru police station but the officer I approached told me they couldn’t do much that for lack of evidence.”