A self-proclaimed Namibian apostle, Japhet Johannes (29), is nursing a battered image after falling in love with a self-proclaimed prophetess from Botswana who allegedly emptied his pockets before accusing him of rape.
The so-called apostle even opened a case of defamation at the police, following his whirlwind romance, he says.
Johannes says he met Queen Makhulumo (25), his late friend’s wife, on Facebook before meeting her in real life a few weeks ago.
He says they started chatting on Facebook three weeks after Makhulumo’s husband died of Covid-19
Johannes claims he spent N$30 000 pampering the widowed ‘prophetess’ and promised to buy her a house when they get married.
Things, however, turned sour when Makhulumo went back to Botswana.
Johannes claims she launched a stinging attack on him and told an online Botswanan publication, People’s Daily News Online, that he raped her.
“Makhulumo is a prophetess at the Liberation Church in Gaborone, in Botswana, where she would minister with her late husband Alpha Makhulumo,” Johannes says.
“Her husband was like my brother, so I reached out to her to send my condolences. That’s when we started communicating, and three weeks after that she insisted on coming to see me in Namibia,” he says.
“When she visited we slept over at a guest house in Windhoek North, and we had consensual intercourse from the first day she arrived until she left.”
Johannes claims Makhulumo sent him several nude pictures before they met.
“On the second day I took her shopping and bought her N$4 000 worth of clothes, and she claims I raped her on the same day,” Johannes says.
Makhulumo allegedly told the People’s Daily News Online Johannes forced her to have sex with him in Windhoek, upon which she pleaded to sleep in a separate room.
The online publication, however, does not quote Makhulumo directly, but posted the following on Facebook:
“On the first day Prophetess had requested that after dinner they should sleep in separate rooms which caused a lot of quarrels and threats he made then out of fear the prophetess agreed to be in the same room with him, and the entire night there was a battles since he was demanding sex till the Prophetess screamed to the rescue of Hotel attendants then he stopped.
“The following morning he took her out for shopping and the whole day the Prophet was begging for Sex and Prophetess pointed out that she is still mourning the death of her husband and she is not in a ready position for sex. The following night the same thing happened and still Prophetess refused to have sex with him then the man was angry to a point that he told her to leave Namibia Early in the morning.”
Makhulumo last week refused to comment on the issue.
“I’m not going to comment on anything. Let him say whatever he wants to say about me,” she said.
According to police chief inspector and spokesperson Elifas Kuwinga, a defamation case has indeed been opened.
“I can confirm that the case is ongoing, and it is a defamation of character case,” he said this week.
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