29/06/2025
I WAS HIRED TO BEWITCH HH, CONFESSES MOZAMBICAN ‘WIZARD ’
A MOZAMBICAN traditional healer Jasten Mabulesse Candude has confessed that he had allegedly been hired by Emmanuel Jay Banda to use witchcraft to kill President Hakainde Hichilema.
Mabulesse Candude has also implicated former Lumezi Member of Parliament Munir Zulu, whom he has accused of having instructed him to bring specific medicines for Banda.
He also claimed that Banda’s mother explicitly instructed him to ensure that President Hakainde Hichilema “really dies.”
These confessions emerged in a recorded police interview played before the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court, where Candude and co-accused Leonard Phiri are charged with witchcraft-related offences.
The two are alleged to have conspired to use charms, including a live chameleon, in an attempt to harm President Hichilema. Candude stated in the interview that he met Banda’s mother at her home, who allegedly told him to “ensure that the President really dies.”
He described himself as a witch doctor who normally helps people with healing and good fortune but admitted being told the purpose of this particular trip was to kill.
“When I came, my job was to heal people. But I was told that the person wanted to kill the President. Jay Jay Banda was the one who hired me, although I never spoke to him directly but through his younger brother Nelson. I met his mother, who said the President must really be gone,” Candude said in the video.
He demonstrated various traditional medicines and charms in the footage, wrapping himself in a red cloth and beating himself with an animal tail, which he described as part of his rituals.
Among the items he exhibited were bottles of concoctions, animal tails, and a live chameleon, which he claimed was to be used in a ritual to kill the President by laying it in his path and injecting it.
“Honourable Jay Jay known as Emmanuel Banda he was the one who hired me. I never spoke to him, it was his younger bro I was talking to.