Twisted headline? Well, the details of this real life story are even more twisted. I had to pinch myself to check if I was really in the Matero Local Court or I had somehow been teleported to a script writing session of a Nollywood movie. On Thursday, the Matero Local Court heard a recording in which two lady ‘pastors’ Esnart Kacholola and Rosario Phiri were invoking the “violent and stubborn spirit of their goddess called Matyaba”, to descend upon Tibbes Longwe, 30, so that she could frustrate her family members. This is in a matter in which Longwe sued her brother-in-law Matthew Phiri, 45, and her nephew Samson Phiri, 18, both from Matero Township for harassment and insults. Appearing before...

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