Gilbert Munetsi
The leader of a Chitungwiza Pentecostal church, who early this year was in the spotlight for dumping his wife of 18 years for a 21 year-old congregant, has been arrested for fraud and was expected to have appeared in court on Friday, May 5.
Upon arrest on May 4, Ezekiel Masiyandima, 44, who leads Ebenezer Prophetic Ministries initially had a criminal record opened at St Mary’s Police Station under CR Number 65/05/23. He now faces a fraud charge as defined in the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act section 136.
Masiyandima stands accused of having sold a non-existent stand in Epworth to a congregant for $2 500.
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According to police sources, the transaction took place in St Mary's and when the complainant visited the site in Epworth, he discovered that the stand had already been built by someone else, leading to the arrest of the man of the cloth.
Early this year, Masiyandima opted out of his marriage to Portia Chiwanga, 38, with whom he had been in matrimony for 18 years.
In her place, he went on to marry a much younger woman, Melania Madamombe, 21, a development that divided the church.
Back then, Masiyandima argued his first wife was accusing him of witchcraft as the couple had lost three of their five children in mysterious circumstances.
This, according to allegations by the former wife, happened after the prophet had visited T.B Joshua’s SCOAN in Nigeria. He is alleged to have also made a visit to see the late Nigerian prophet’s wife, according to Chiwanga who went on to label her estranged husband a womaniser, abuser, drunkard and crook.
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