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Couple returns midnight to pick kids

22 Aug, 2014 - 00:08 0 Views

The ManicaPost

Liberty Dube Weekender Correspondent
A MUTARE couple which in June “dumped” their two children at a 51-year-old Chikanga woman’s residence before disappearing resurfaced last Thursday and went to her house under the cover of darkness pleading to be reunited with their children. This followed after The Weekender story exposed the two.

The couple — Linsy Moyo and Busisiwe Madeya — came at Agnella Rusakaniko’s residence at around midnight at House Number 2153, Chikanga Phase 2, saying they were coming from South Africa and were in a hurry to go back to Mzansi that same night.

The development brought to an end the widowed woman’s agony that saw her struggling to take care of the two children for close to two months apart from her other biological children.

The seemingly relieved Rusakaniko, in an interview, thanked The Weekender for a “job well done” and for publicising her concern to the world.

She said that the issue was becoming confusing after two men who refused to identify themselves came last Monday and asked to take the children.

“They never told me their names and they refused to give us their phone numbers. They said that the couple was now residing in Beitbridge. I chased them away after suspecting that they had been sent by the couple,” she said.

“I am very happy that the storm is over now. If it were not for you (The Weekender) I don’t think they would have come to their senses. I would like to thank The Manica Post staff for going out of their way to help me,” she said.

She said the couple apologised for dumping their children at my place and with nothing to wear, saying life had become so tough for them that they could not afford to carry the “extra baggage”.

“They were jittery. They came at around 12 midnight. They apologised and thanked me for taking care of their children for more than a month before they hurriedly took them away minutes later. I forgave them. They said zvinhu zvanga zvatiomera. Busisiwe said she had secured a job and their financial status was now stable. They said their friends called them after they had read the story of their children’s plight in The Weekender. They were so apologetic and I felt for them. I almost refused to give them the children before one of my daughters explained the legal consequences of it.

“It was very hard for me to say goodbye to the children. I had developed unconditional love for the children and treated them as mine but was so happy that at least their real parents had remembered them. Psychologically their parents’ absence was going to affect them for the rest of their lives,” Rusakaniko said.

The couple left the children aged eight and about 14 months old in her custody on June 2 purportedly going to town and promised to take them back later on the same day.

Their cell phones became unreachable from the day they disappeared.

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