STORIES of people approaching witchdoctors or Satanists for them to get rich have been prevailing for some time now.
Many people have been known to have become very rich after obtaining charms from witch doctors or satanists who initiate them after sacrificing whatever they are asked to sacrifice and they allegedly accrue riches within the shortest possible time if they followed the instructions.
While the riches are acquired after following instructions most of which are bizarre, the repercussions are said to be disastrous for those who fail to abide by the rules of the game.
In some cases, wealth seekers have allegedly become mentally disturbed (mad or insane) for not meeting the instructions given by the witch doctors or worse, die after failing to fulfill their sacrificial promises as ordered by Satanists.
While many get mad or die, the lucky ones have been known to have lost all their accrued wealth after failing to follow instructions or default on some conditions.
But what boggles the mind is that many witch doctors who allegedly give instructions to wealth seekers do not have the riches themselves, how then do they manage to make others rich when they themselves are poor?
Despite this being the case the number of people who seek to be rich using these methods is alarming.
Last week I was in Mansa, Luapula, Province, where I had gone to visit my nephews and nieces.
Two days after my stay in Mansa, I decided to take a walk to the district’s market area and bus station. As I was sauntering around, I saw a young man in his early twenties pacing up and down.
He was holding his trouser which appeared to be very big and loose around the waist and without holding it, it would surely fall down.
The young man looked composed and uncaring, like many mentally deranged people we see around.
Knowing that he was just one of those many people who are mentally ill and frequent busy places such as market places and bus stations, I did not pay much attention until one woman who was standing near where I was commented to her friend: “Chawama uyu mulumendo atampa ukupenunuka. Aleikatilila netoloshi kwati teulya alefula nukwikala ubwamba,” (It is nice this young man is now getting to his senses. He is even holding the trouser as if it is not him who has been striping naked and staying nude).
The other woman who was with her laughed on hearing this.
“Kutemwa ulupiya ukwamuchitefi,” (It is the love of money which has made him like this) the other woman commented.
It was the love of money which had made the young man like that! What did this mean?
For all I know, all people love money, but how could the love of money make anyone turn into that state?
“Alefwayo kunonka nomba takonkele  amafunde bamwebele kung’anga,” (He wanted to get rich but he did not follow the instructions the witch doctor gave him,” explained the woman to her friend, of course with me the eavesdropper listening.
According to the woman narrating what had transpired, the young man who was an electrician or technician, went to a witch doctor to seek to become rich.
After consulting the witch doctor, he was asked to some money which he quickly paid.
After paying the money, the witch doctor told the young man what to do when he got home. Among the instructions which the witch doctor gave the young man was for him not  to answer  when greeted or talked to until after 24 hours elapsed.
“The young man went home and the wife welcomed him and he did not answer,” explained the woman.
Thinking that he did not hear, the wife welcomed him again, but he still could not answer.
Then the woman left him alone thinking he was in bad mood.
After some time, there came someone asking for the young man and the wife went back to him and told him there was a visitor asking for him, but the husband could not say anything.
The wife then got concerned; why was her husband not talking? Was there a problem where he had come from?
The wife got back to the man who had come asking for her husband and not knowing what to say, she decided to tell a lie that her husband had left and she did not see him leave.
After the visitor had left, the wife went back into the house and asked her husband why he was behaving like that, but still the man could not respond.
Worried about this situation, the wife left the man and went to sit alone outside.
In the house, the man thought there were too many temptations at home and he would respond to his wife and the best for him to do was to leave and for this reason, he decided to leave the house to go somewhere where no one would talk to him.
Was it possible for someone to stay 24 hours without talking to anyone? As simple as the instruction appeared to be, I thought it was tough, but as an eavesdropper, I wanted to hear more of this story.
However, the narrator explained that it was when the young man was on his way away from home when he met a young woman who happened to be his friend.
On meeting the young man, the girl friend asked him where he had been the previous day because he had not shown up and was not answering the phone, but the young man did not answer.
The woman who was narrating the story said when the girl friend saw that her boy friend was not answering her, she became very furious.
“Where were you  yesterday and why were you  not answering the phone, the young woman is said to have asked her boy friend but he still could not answer her,” the narrator said.
She explained that after insisting on finding out why her boy friend was not seen the previous day and why he was not answering the phone and he was still mute, she became very furious and started yelling at him accusing him of all sorts of things.
“Then the young woman accused her boy friend of not being sincere and that he was with another woman the previous day and that was why he was not seen and could not answer the phone,” explained the woman.
She said at this revelation, the young man quickly responded: “Nshalipo no mwanakashi ine mailo.Ninani uwakwebele,” (I was not with any woman yesterday. Who told you this?)
And soon after responding the young man started striping naked and started running towards the market, attracting scores of on-lookers.
Seeing what was happening, the elderly men got hold of the young man and dressed him up and took him to his house where the wife explained his strange behavior and how he was not answering her.
After consultations, one of the young man’s friends explained how they had gone to the witch doctor to seek to become rich and because of the instructions, he (his friend) backed out and left while the young man agreed with the witch doctor’s instructions.
After listening to this story, I remembered another story which was told at a funeral I  attended in Ndola where a man went mad after ignoring the instructions from a Satanist who told him not to drive his magically acquired vehicle out of Lusaka.
The man managed to follow the instructions for some months, but one day he decided to ignore them and decided to drive to Kabwe.
The man was said to have driven up to Chibombo’s John Chinena area when he stopped and parked the vehicle to buy some onions, tomatoes and other vegetables.
After buying the vegetables, he walked back where he had parked the vehicle. It was not there.
Confused, he asked the people around where he had parked the vehicle, but they laughed off saying he was a joker because they had seen him come running and it was funny he was asking them where he had parked his vehicle.
On hearing that, the man seemed to have remembered the condition given to him not to drive his vehicle outside Lusaka until further instructions.
The man allegedly took off his shirt and shredded it before he started running back towards Lusaka.
He had become mad.
There are other stories that some wealth seekers are instructed not to use toilets at home or elsewhere, but that they have to rush to the bush when they were pressed to answer the call of nature whether it was day light or night. Would you like to get rich in this way?
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