The mother of an 11-year-old boy who went missing for two and a half weeks in Bulawayo says she is happy to be reunited with her son but what disturbs her is that he remembers nothing about where he was, besides attending an unknown church.
Thobekile Mbiriri said her son, Promise, went missing on 17 October. He was found by members of the public and brought to Mzilikazi Police Station last Friday, according to a ZRP spokeswoman before being reunited with his family.
Promise went missing after he left home to collect sticks to build an abacus for his Continuous Assessment Learning Activity (CALA) assignment. Said Mbiriri:
When I asked him where he was he says he doesn’t know where the place is, but only remembers that it was a church.
This church holds services at night, Promise says. I then asked him what they were eating and he said he doesn’t know, but he was eating.
He says he was with other boys and was always closed up in the church and eating at night.
He says on Thursday the boys left with the church congregants and he was left alone.
He was in different clothes when he was found from the ones he was wearing when he went missing.
He says it was cold and the people at the church gave him other clothes. He also says in the two weeks, they would bath at night.
Mbiriri added that Promise doesn’t remember anything other than that he was collecting sticks for his abacus outside the family home and then the next thing he was in church.
The boy said he doesn’t know how he got there. | Chronicle