The touts took over the ceremony
A pastor has been stopped from preaching during a funeral by touts who stormed the ceremony to cause some commotion.
It was pure drama that took place recently as drunk touts blocked a
pastor from a local church to stop conducting the burial service of
their colleague at Luveve cemetery, Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.
Iharare reports that the drunk touts stopped Pastor Ngwenya from
preaching for about 20 minutes. They described their act as a way of
saying goodbye to the deceased.
According to an eyewitness, who disclosed that mourners present at
the cemetery were shocked when the drunk touts took the coffin from the
pall bearers and lowered it into the grave themselves.
They shouted obscenities with reckless abandon saying there was no
need for a church service to be conducted for their colleague since he
was a drunkard and did not belong to any church.
"Mourners were left shocked after visibly drunken touts stopped
a pastor from conducting the church service. They wanted to bid him
farewell by drinking beer and smoking dagga. They were shouting on top
of their voices saying William was a drunkard who had told them that
when he died no church service should be conducted at his funeral or
burial as he did not subscribe to any Christian doctrines. While
shouting and singing they took the coffin and lowered it into the grave
and quickly buried it with soil," said a witness who declined to be named for fear of victimisation.
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