MUTALE - A traditional healer from Limpopo was stunned to see members of the police visiting his home and looking for a suspect, whom they say, was intending to visit him, seeking protection muti from police.

Matumba Nathaniel Mukosi (50) says he was sitting with his family when three police officers from Mutale visited his home one evening, asking him to help them arrest a suspected criminal. "One of the three officers told me they were looking for Thomas Bilankulu, of Tshapasha village. They said that he was suspected of breaking into spaza shops.

"The police told me they had been tipped off that he would come to my home for muti that would protect him from them. I told them I had not seen him. The police told me to help them in arresting Bilankulu, if he ever he comes, to which I agreed. However, I waited for the said suspect who never arrived," Mukosi said. Mukosi who has been a traditional healer since the age of thirteen, said he was shocked to learn that a suspect was coming for protection muti as healers could not provide such medicine.

"This is shocking to me because I do not know of any type of such muti that can protect one from the police."