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Tragedy: When Sons Turn On Their Mother
SPEAK OUT ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE with DORIS KASOTE
WHEN I read about two brothers that killed their mother and later buried her body, it sent a chill down my spine. As though that was not enough, the two brothers further attacked their father by stabbing him which landed the man into the intensive care unit of Kitwe Central Hospital.
My thoughts went astray, wondering and asking why and how such a gruesome act could happen? Worse still the alleged perpetrators and the victims were from the same family. I asked myself why sons should turn against their own parents who gave them life.
Even as I pondered, I could not find an answer, because it all just did not add up.
It is normal that as children grow older, they do not always agree with their parents but that should not drive them to be responsible for such a gruesome murder.
For those, who have no clue what I am talking about; let me let you in on what happened last Saturday, according to media reports.
Police arrested two siblings of Kitwe’s Mine township for allegedly murdering their 46- year-old mother after a family dispute and buried her body in the Chichele forest on the Kitwe Ndola carriage way.
Untrue as it may sound but Police spokesperson Charity Chanda confirmed that the incident happened last Saturday around 03 00 hours at house number 33.
The woman who was allegedly killed by the two sons is Ethel Gondwe, a teacher at one of the schools in Kitwe while the sons have been identified as Emmanuel Katongo, 23, and Ongani Katongo, 18.
Ms Chanda said after allegedly attacking and murdering Ms Gondwe, Emmanuel and Ongani turned on their father, Emmanuel Katongo, 47, and stabbed him with an unknown object in the neck.
After being killed by her own flesh and blood, Ms Gondwe was buried in a forest.
Emmanuel and Ongani led the police to where they buried their mother and according to their statement; they did what they did following a dispute after a drinking dispute.
One would expect sons to hold their mother dear because the bond that a woman has with her children starts when she is pregnant.
If one would turn back the clock and if given an opportunity, certain paths in our lives would be avoided at all costs.
Little did Ms Gondwe know that her own children would end her life?
If Ms Gondwe knew that her own children would kill her, she would probably not even have had them.
However, no parent ever anticipates that their own children would turn against them to a point of killing them and bury them in a forest.
What one would expect as a parent is the children that you bring into this world will one day accord you a dignified bury rather than dump you in a forest.
My mind keeps wondering just how and why two sons would kill their own mother and stab, their father to warrant him to end up in Intensive Care Unit?
No matter how much I wonder and ponder about it, I don’t seem to get an answer.
The best I can do is wait to hear what dispute Emmanuel and Ongani had with their parents to have turned violent against them.
Whatever the reason, it is unacceptable. The best I can do right now is leaving it to the Police to handle the case and hope answers will come out of it, sad as it may be, instead of cracking my head.
Posted by Editor
on May 3, 2014. Filed under LIFE & STYLE, STYLE.
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hilda
May 3, 2014 at 7:25 am
hard to imagine even. Sad indeed
Penny
May 3, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Could it be that maybe the parents were BAD? There are so many abusive mothers and fathers in many societies around the country. Many parents were victims themselves who continue the culture of “beating seven bells out of their children”
I’ve seen some parents almost beat the living day lights out of their offsprings… kicks, punches, burns, insults, you name it. Thats what some of the children have to go thru till they dieced one day that enough is enough. Ka!?
Penny
May 3, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Coops!!! meant to type *decide* not dieced
cased 4 forever
May 3, 2014 at 7:31 am
Guys tamwakamonepo icisuma pano pa calo bane.people continue stayng wth thir parents nangu nindoshi,now u guyz u decide to kill yr biological mother.kanshi she could hv aborted u in yr early dayz atase.
Agony
May 3, 2014 at 4:44 pm
My mother was a terror. I distinctly remember one time I had a friend over and we were just playing in my room when we heard my mom screaming. We decided it would be best to go outside to play, and on our way out of the house we passed by my little brother’s room. My mother was in there kicking him like a freaking football. He was about 9 or 10 at the time, and he was balled up in the fetal position in the corner with his arms up over his head trying to block the kicks, and my mother was just kicking away screaming incoherent nonsense. After my friend and I saw the scene in my house, as we were walking over to her house, she told me “We should just play at my house from now on.” I didn’t know what to say, so I just said “ok,” and we never talked about it again… My friend did start spending a lot more time with me, though. I think she felt very sorry for me because she had never seen anything like that before…. My mother had severe emotional problems. She took that pain out on my siblings and I, we got her physical aggression and I got the mental and emotional torture. It was pretty much hell. Fortunately for me, I learned a lot about psychology and spent a great deal of my later youth working on myself and overcoming my childhood as well as learning to understand why she did the things she did, which really helped to end the “cycle” of abuse that is all too common.
Christopher
May 3, 2014 at 8:12 am
They will never be happy any more. It’s very sad.
Police
May 3, 2014 at 8:34 am
That’s the end even s haka,s down fall started wen he killed the mother now u kayà
naija
May 3, 2014 at 5:05 pm
“Religious leaders capitalize on the ignorance of some parents in the villages just to make some money off them,”
“They can say your child is a witch and if you bring the child to the church we can deliver the child but eventually they do n’t deliver the children… The parents go back to the pastor and say, ‘why is it you have not been able to deliver the child’ and the pastor says ‘Oh – this one has gone past deliverance – they’ve eaten too much flesh so you have to throw the child out.’”
And most pastors charge a fee for deliverance — anywhere from $300 to $2,000.
Malukula
May 3, 2014 at 9:25 am
These two devils will be hanged till pronounced dead n I will thro them in my morgue
pasaka
May 3, 2014 at 11:24 am
Last Days ,ndelolesha fye
Umupita nshila
May 3, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Even the Mailoni brothers dared not touch their dear mama cos they knew that umufyashi ni Lesa wabubili
chipo
May 3, 2014 at 3:27 pm
my grade 12 english teacher how sad they will never know peace
Reason
May 3, 2014 at 5:17 pm
Samuel K****, 21, inflicted more than 40 stab wounds on his mother Mrs K*** when he turned the knife on her at their home.
During police interview, he signed a confession stating: ‘I admit killing my mother this morning by stabbing her.
‘I did this because she subjected me to a lifetime of physical and mental abuse.
‘She used the Bible to rationalise what she did to me. I believe she manipulated and brainwashed me.
‘I have been very depressed for a long time. I have tried to overcome it but I couldn’t take it anymore.’
kas
May 3, 2014 at 6:33 pm
I knw the boyz as I lived three houses from them. One thing they always did was to seat by the corner of the main rd and just beg and drink shake shake. Am still shocked that words that I would like to say will not make sense.
chika
May 4, 2014 at 11:39 am
Foolish boys
sonyane
May 4, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Children of today luv money too much. wanted to benefit from their parents deaths, what a shame. work hard for you to be comfortable. these idiots!