Ngamiland district has been rated amongst those leading in incidents of
Satanism amongst students countrywide. At a meeting with Maun Secondary
School students this week called by school management and the regional
education office, the district leadership was told of horrifying incidents
of satanism which have for a long time haunted the student community at the
School. The meetings also sought to wish students luck in their ongoing
final examinations, as well as to make them appreciate their education and
perseverance up to the level where they are now.
In an interview with Sunday Standard, North West Regional Education
Director Acronews Maseko said the purpose of the meeting was to brief the
district leadership on the recent issues of satanism in the region. He said
the practice has become so widespread in schools. He said numbers show that
the most vulnerable group are school children, not only in Maun Schools, but
also at Shakawe Senior, Okavango and Ngambao Junior School in Seronga where
similar cases have been reported. Maseko said a lot of students have even
started talking openly about Satanism and what they do during their late
night meetings.
“Just this week, we were escorted to their meeting place, which is a very
long dark cave near the old Maun General Hospital. We were also told that at
certain times they undress when entering the cave to perform their rituals
and so forth. We are aware that the public might think we took long to act
on the matter, but there was nothing we could have done then as we had to
fully investigate. As we speak, we have managed to identify some of these
satanist students, and they are more than willing to talk. Local churches
have also been of assistance, as we hear a lot of these students have since
been delivered from their diabolic acts, even though we are also told a lot
of them still run away from deliverance. Our intention is to send teams of
pastors and prophets to go and pray at various schools, and we solely rely
on assistance from the Minister’s fraternal to map the way forward”, said
Maseko.
Maun senior, Tsodilo Junior and Mathiba Primary schools are some of the
schools in Maun which have had cases of Satanism, all of which were reported
to the regional education office and the police. There are also pending
criminal cases associated to Satanism at Maun Police, which were performed
by students from Tsodilo and Maun secondary, where animals were cruelly
killed and their parts displayed in classrooms. At Mathiba, dozens of pupils
reportedly fainted after claiming to have seen human-like creatures which
forcefully pinned them to the ground and made them vomit unknown substances.
The creatures were however only seen by a group of pupils, while the rest of
the school community helplessly watched in disbelief as they (affected
pupils) struggled to fight back the invisible.
