CAPTURED fugitive Johanne Masowe eChishanu leader Ishmael Chokurongerwa was yesterday denied bail after he was deemed a flight risk and remanded in custody to February 20 this year after he was implicated in the assault of police officers at his shrine in Budiriro, Harare, last year.
Provincial magistrate Milton Serima dismissed as unfounded Chokurongerwa’s claims that he was not present when his church members attacked police officers, journalists and members of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) when they visited his shrine in May last year.
“The court finds it quite surprising to hear the accused through his lawyer claiming that he was not present when the violence occurred,” Serima said.
“Some of his church members were charged and convicted of the same offence, now that he is aware that his members were imprisoned it is most likely that he will abscond and not attend trial.”
The magistrate further said one would wonder why Chokurongerwa (44) did not show up at the shrine for over seven months after learning that violence had erupted at the shrine if his claim of being absent from the scene was to be believed.
The State alleges that on May 30 last year, ACCZ president Johannes Ndanga, his delegation and 26 police officers visited Johanne Masowe eChishanu’s site at Budiriro 2 in Harare to address the gathering over issues of child abuse.
It is alleged when Ndanga began reading the document, the gathering started singing their church songs and Chokurongerwa challenged him to speak in Shona and not in English.
At that juncture Ndanga is alleged to have ordered the police to arrest Chokurongerwa accusing him of interjecting his speech.
The court heard Chokurongerwa allegedly started singing an inciting song called Umambo hwepfumo neropa (The Kingdom of the Spear and Blood) following which Ndanga, his delegation, police and journalists were severely assaulted.
Eleven members from Chokurongerwa’s church were last November slapped with a five-year jail term each for the same offence.
They have since lodged an appeal against both conviction and sentence at the High Court and the matter is yet to be set down for hearing. SouthernEye
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God showed me all three Priest, Makebo, Judah,Abel together, they were all wearing their garments but they were not on this earth. To you Mapostori ekwa Johane Marange ngapasave nemumwe wenyu anosumudza rwuoko rwake kurwisa mumwe muPostori. Hakuna anonzi uyu muPostori wekwa Noah Taguta, mese muri maPostori vamwe chete veJohane Marange izvo hazvizo chinja. Mwari varikuda kuti vese vakambenge vavambavtumapato twavo vachidzoka munamate pamwe chete vachisunungurwa. Vachasvikirwa vasati vadzoka zvakare vacharaswa. Mwari Varikuda kuti muchinamata manamatiro chaiwo amakaudzw naBambo Johane Marange, Hapana chinofanirwa kuchinja. Nguva yakwana vanhu vaMwari. AMEN. Messenger Of God (Mutumwa)
Now I will tell you people of Zimbabwe something you could not have known unless it’s told you. Some of you even doubt if I am A real Messenger Of God? Even my own brothers, sisters and mothers in Johane Marange have not heard this, it’s the first time. Before I was even born on this earth my Father The Great God Jesus Christ asked me to form my own Church, He put us into four groups, in my group it was just me and a lady, in another groups they had upto 50 members in each group. It was like a competition and God said the winner will go and start the Apostle Church on earth. While there we were allowed to go to other groups and preach and they will also come to each and other group to preach and by the end of each service we would ask members if anyone wanted to join our Church, many after having listened to the preachings would rejoin another group, in the end there were only two groups and we drew mine which is this Johane Marange and this Johane Masowe EChishanu. God said okay I will sent both Churches to earth. So Johane Marange and Johane Masowe Echishanu were formed by God in Heaven. God sent Johane Marange to start Johane Marange Apostle Church because I was not yet born on this earth, then after Johane Marange went back to Heaven Abel Marange took over because the button was passed to him by Johane Marange the Baptist. When Abel Marange whom I managed to see in one of our pass overs was about to be recalled, his spirit fought with the spirit of the priest who is there now leading the Church called Noah Taguta. But because Abel Marange knee he was about to die he did what God told him and went all over the Country looking for that someone who to give the last Chapter to. In the end when that person couldn’t be found, he passed through my house my grandfather’s house and I was standing outside the yard in the main road and they came and stopped where I was, I was young then about 11years old, I was asked to pick an envelope and I picked that envelope with the Last Chapter, he said you are the one, I was asked to read the Last Chapter and the envelope was sealed, we went into the yard with many women Apostles, him Abel Marange and my uncle and we prayed. He told me one day I shall be able to remember that Last Chaptet from my heart and now I do. Only me knows the contents of The Last Chapter. I am a Messenger Of God but I was not sent to go and sit in Church and be rich but to save that which was lost which I have been doing all along. Now my mission is almost done and I am about to return to where I came from where my Father The Great God Jesus Christ is. To all Apostles of Johane Marange I tell you that Mubhabhatidzi Bambo Johane Marange visited me from Heaven to where I am now, we ate together. He came to get two more wives because when he died he had only one wife, he got those wives. In there in Johane there other Messengers but their mission is not to lead the Church but to do what they were sent to do, to pray and heal people and to spread the word. AMEN. Messenger Of God (Mutumwa)
Now I will tell you people of Zimbabwe something you could not have known unless it’s told you. Some of you even doubt if I am A real Messenger Of God? Even my own brothers, sisters and mothers in Johane Marange have not heard this, it’s the first time. Before I was even born on this earth my Father The Great God Jesus Christ asked me to form my own Church, He put us into four groups, in my group it was just me and a lady, in another groups they had upto 50 members in each group. It was like a competition and God said the winner will go and start the Apostle Church on earth. While there we were allowed to go to other groups and preach and they will also come to each and other group to preach and by the end of each service we would ask members if anyone wanted to join our Church, many after having listened to the preachings would rejoin another group, in the end there were only two groups and we drew mine which is this Johane Marange and this Johane Masowe EChishanu. God said okay I will sent both Churches to earth. So Johane Marange and Johane Masowe Echishanu were formed by God in Heaven. God sent Johane Marange to start Johane Marange Apostle Church because I was not yet born on this earth, then after Johane Marange went back to Heaven Abel Marange took over because the button was passed to him by Johane Marange the Baptist. When Abel Marange whom I managed to see in one of our pass overs was about to be recalled, his spirit fought with the spirit of the priest who is there now leading the Church called Noah Taguta. But because Abel Marange knee he was about to die he did what God told him and went all over the Country looking for that someone who to give the last Chapter to. In the end when that person couldn’t be found, he passed through my house my grandfather’s house and I was standing outside the yard in the main road and they came and stopped where I was, I was young then about 11years old, I was asked to pick an envelope and I picked that envelope with the Last Chapter, he said you are the one, I was asked to read the Last Chapter and the envelope was sealed, we went into the yard with many women Apostles, him Abel Marange and my uncle and we prayed. He told me one day I shall be able to remember that Last Chaptet from my heart and now I do. Only me knows the contents of The Last Chapter. I am a Messenger Of God but I was not sent to go and sit in Church and be rich but to save that which was lost which I have been doing all along. Now my mission is almost done and I am about to return to where I came from where my Father The Great God Jesus Christ is. To all Apostles of Johane Marange I tell you that Mubhabhatidzi Bambo Johane Marange visited me from Heaven to where I am now, we ate together. He came to get two more wives because when he died he had only one wife, he got those wives. In there in Johane there other Messengers but their mission is not to lead the Church but to do what they were sent to do, to pray and heal people and to spread the word. AMEN. Messenger Of God (Mutumwa)