THE SUN WILL RISE AGAIN: Sofia exposes Nyati’s vain generosity

27 Sep, 2015 - 02:09 0 Views

The Sunday News

Charles Dube
NYATI and Joseph Takundwa join forces to commit a heinous crime. They are responsible for the disappearance and eventually death of Tabitha, Sofia’s young sister. Nyati’s vain generosity to his victims makes him succeed in his evil deeds. Nyati takes advantage of materialistic Joseph Takundwa and manipulates him to assist him in his actions. Having roped in Joseph Takundwa, Nyati uses blackmail to keep him in check.

Nyati and Joseph Takundwa connive to kill Tabitha for ritual purposes. Nyati uses sweets to trap Tabitha. He says Tabitha is such a little angel. Two days later after being offered sweets by Nyati, Tabitha vanished into thin air. She was last seen playing with her friends by the towerlight. Her friends claimed that they had last seen her getting into a red kombi. Her friends had seen her running excitedly towards the red kombi.

One is bound to conclude that sweets could have been used to draw Tabitha towards the red kombi and the eventually her capture. Sofia says she will never forget the pain that Tabitha’s sudden disappearance brought on to the family. She remembers how her mother almost starved to death after spending a week without anything. Surprisingly, of all the friends that came to console her parents, Sofia says Mr Nyati was the most outstanding.

No single day would pass by without Mr Nyati coming to find out whether the girl had been found. He was prepared to offer as much help as he could to ensure the safe return of Tabitha. He went as far as offering a $5 000 reward to anyone who would provide information that would lead to the safe return of Tabitha. But the question is: “Why cry more than the bereaved Mr Nyati?” One smells a rat in such behaviour.

Nyati betrays himself as the chief suspect in the disappearance of Tabitha. Joseph Takundwa, Nyati’s accomplice in the disappearance of Tabitha pretends to be highly concerned about the whole issue. He comes home drunk as if he were drowning the sorrows of the loss of his child in beer. One day he staggers into the house drunk as usual. He asks: “Have the police been here? Have they found her?” When his wife asks, “Found whom?”

He lashes out at her, calling her stupid. He reveals that he is talking about his daughter. When he hears that they have not found her, he blasts the police for their incompetence. He says they will never find her, which is ironic since he knows that they killed her with Nyati. He says police are useless, only good at arresting market women. Joseph Takundwa is a good pretender as he desperately pushes the blame of the missing child to his wife Fatima. He says Fatima is the one who sold his daughter.

Joseph Takundwa resorts to violence when talking to his wife about the missing child. Sofia could not help but notice the madness in her father’s voice. She thought maybe the disappearance of Tabitha was getting into his head. Takundwa tells his wife to get out of his sight or risk being killed. Sofia is ignorant of reality and thinks that Tabitha’s disappearance has terribly affected her father. She reveals that he is always drunk of late and she cannot even remember when she last saw him sober.

Fatima reveals that every night Joseph Takundwa dreams about Tabitha and wakes up screaming. Most of the time he would be running away from Tabitha. The previous night he almost jumped through the window. Everytime it is always Tabitha he is fleeing away from. It is clear from this that Takundwa is tormented by the spirit of his dead daughter. The guilty are afraid.

Why is Takundwa running away from Tabitha? His hands are bloody.

Sofia almost hits the nail on the head as to the cause of her father’s dreams. She is of the view that maybe Tabitha’s spirit is angry with her father for not giving her a decent burial. Maybe she wants to be given a decent burial. After Tabitha’s disappearance, Takundwa’s drunken tantrums were a daily occurrence. Of course, he was covering up his guilt.

On top of that, Nyati’s visits became more regular. Sofia says at first she thought those visits were a result of genuine sympathy for the bereaved family. Nyati was prepared to offer whatever help, financial or otherwise, to help ensure the safe return of Tabitha. He even doubled the $5 000 reward money that he had offered to anyone who could offer useful information. She soon learnt that Nyati’s visits and generous offers were driven by other motives.

During each visit he made sure that he also brought a small present for Sofia. Sometimes he would bring an expensive bar of chocolate; sometimes it would be a little bottle of expensive perfume. At the beginning she innocently accepted those gifts, but as they kept flooding in, she began to see through Nyati’s intentions. She had never used perfume before and did not need it anyway. She declined to take it, but Nyati forcibly placed it into her palms.

As she was still furiously protesting, she peeped out of the doorway only to see Nyati’s brand new Mercedes Benz gliding off. Sofia says she felt a wave of anger creeping into her blood. She had realised that the old man was definitely after her. She said he should be mad to think that such a thing could happen. Nyati was old enough to be her grandfather. Nyati always brought her presents. Her mother Fatima was shocked to find the range of new and expensive items that she saw. In front of her was a heap of bras, chocolate bars and other things.

Fatima, Sofia’s mother concluded that Nyati should be mad if he wanted to make Sofia his eighth wife. Can we not conclude that all these expensive items given to Sofia by Nyati prove beyond doubt his vain generosity?

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