NIZ to facilitate boy's T.B Joshua visit

NIZ Chairman Emeka

NIGERIANS In Zimbabwe have come to the rescue of a seven-year old boy by facilitating passage for him to travel to Lagos for a divine meeting with renowned world prophet T.B Joshua. The Association, made up of about 500 members of Nigerian origin resident in Zimbabwe, revealed this social responsibility gesture at a function held in Harare recently to commemorate their First anniversary.

At a tender age of three months, young Takunda Leeroy Katiyo was diagnosed with zerdema, a condition that has deformed his facial features. And because medical practitioners say there is nothing more they can do to help, his parents say his only hope lies in the visit to the Man of God in West Africa.

NIZ have pooled together financial resources which will see the issuance of visas for Leeroy and his mother, purchase of return air tickets for the two, their accommodation during the duration of their stay in Lagos, as well as internal transport from the moment they touch down at Lagos International Airport.

The assistance extended to the Katiyo family is valued at US$3 000. Arrangements have also been made with contacts in Nigeria for Leeroy to forgo the circuitious procedure associated with booking an appointment with the Mighty Man of God.

“We have been coming in handy in various other areas needing assistance. For instance, last year we donated bicycles to the Zimbabwe Republic Police and other goodies to the Zimbabwe Prison Services, the aged and other vulnerable members of society. But this time around, our help is centred on helping save a life in the form of the young lad,” reads a statement from NIZ.

If Katiyo’s mission goes through, he will be the second publicly-know Zimbabwean to successfully engage T.B Joshua after the Zimbabwe Football Association president, Cuthbert Dube, received healing attention for an alleged back ailment. Prominent musician Tongai Moyo – who has written to ask for assistance with cancer – is yet to get a response to his request.

By Gilbert Munetsi