Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Kitwe man cuts off own genitals


By ALEX NJOVU
A 30-YEAR-OLD man of Kitwe’s Kapoto township is battling for his life in the Kitwe Central Hospital (KCH) intensive care unit after he cut his genitals off and ripped his belly using four knives in an attempt to commit suicide.
Copperbelt police commissioner Mary Tembo confirmed the incident which happened on Wednesday.
KCH public relations manager Grey Chishimba said in an interview in Kitwe yesterday that the incident happened on Wednesday morning.
He named the man as Chris Shapi.
“Mr Shapi used a knife to cut his private parts off and rip his belly,” Mr Chishimba said.
He described Mr Shapi’s condition as critical and that hospital authorities are baffled by the action.
And Mr Shapi’s grandmother, Mary Shapi, 51, of house number Z20/94 in Kitwe’s Kapoto township, narrated that her grandson whom she lives with took sachets of beer commonly known as ‘tujilijili’ around 06:00 hours on Wednesday and started mutilating his genitals using four different knives.
She said Mr Shapi cut his genitals off and threw them within the yard as shell-shocked people gathered around him to watch.
“I am appealing to President Sata and his government to seriously consider banning tujilijili because our children are killing and causing havoc in the communities. I was shocked to find my grandson ripping off his own intestines and also wanted to cut them into pieces as he shouted, “I want to die, I want to die,” Mrs Shapi said between sobs.
Mrs Shapi said she has struggled to raise Mr Shapi whose mother died when he was two years old.
She said Mr Shapi never liked going to school and is currently engaged in business.
Mrs Shapi said last week on Tuesday, her grandson left home with one of his two daughters aged seven and three without informing her of where he was going.
She narrated that Mr Shapi only returned home on Tuesday this week.
“When I asked him he told me that he had gone to Lusaka, I was afraid because he is a problem and can do anything bad to his daughter. He is my only surviving grandchild and he has now put me in problems because I am aging,” Mrs Shapi said.
She said Mr Shapi’s eldest daughter is traumatised after seeing her father cutting his own genitals off and ripping his intestines in her presence.

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