A woman from Lesotho has accused a Bulawayo senior police officer of infecting her with HIV before hounding her out of Zimbabwe.
STAFF REPORTER
The woman alleged she met the police officer in 2012 at “Prophet” Blessing Chiza’s Eagle Life Church, leading to a friendship that later developed into courtship and traditional marriage in 2014.
Yesterday, the cop (name withheld) refused to comment on the allegations when contacted.
“You can go ahead and find information from the same person, not from me,” he said curtly.
However, the woman claimed the cop lied about his health status, which she accidently discovered in July last year.
He said they were counselled by Chiza and she had forgiven her husband.
“He [Chiza] told me that’s what marriage is about. I have to face the situation for what it is and forgive this guy for what he has done,” she said.
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“Then he told me that he would pray for me and I should go and get tested and God would protect my innocence. He told us that it was important to start using protection from then on.”
She said the cop refused to use protection during sex and at times raped her.
“He told me he could not use a condom on his wife. He became abusive and repeatedly had forceful sex without protection, until I decided to leave him and that was in September last year,” she added.
Chiza was not immediately available for comment yesterday as he was not reachable on his mobile phone.
The woman, speaking from Lesotho, said she was angry the police officer remained unapologetic and accused her of being a gold digger.
“After getting my kids’ documents ready, we left in March to start a new life in Lesotho. He is continuing his ‘gospel’ of my having married him for his money,” she said.
“What angers me is that he shows no remorse whatsoever for what he did and I later learnt that he had been sleeping around with several women, even at his workplace.”
It remains unclear why the woman did not seek legal advice from Msasa Project or other women’s organisations as she had been advised by the police officer’s bosses.
