President Peter Mutharika has ordered the arrest of Eric Aniva, a 40 year old Malawian man who is infected with HIV and has over the past years been paid to sleep with young girls in Nsanje district, Malawi24 has learnt.
Aniva revealed that he has slept with over 100 women and girls, some as young as 12. For the services, he is paid about K2000 but he claims that he now performs fewer cleansings.
“I still do rituals here and there [but] I am stopping,” said Aniva when talking to the BBC.
In Nsanje where Aniva lives and in other parts of Malawi, women and girls are forced to have sex with men known as Hyenas as punishment for having abortion or as a ritual that is conducted when their husbands die. Hyenas also have sex with girls who have had their first menstruation in order to “cleanse” them.
The communities regard Hyenas’ work as necessary for protecting families of the women or sometimes the whole communities. But such rituals have for a long time been blamed for the spread of HIV.
Aniva says he does not reveal to the parents of the young girls that he is HIV positive even though he is required to have sex with the women without using condoms.
One of the elders who organise the girls in Aniva’s village insisted that there is nothing wrong with the ritual since it helps train girls so that they should not go astray.
But this has not gone well with Mutharika and he has issued the arrest of Aniva.
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Why orders arrest on the mn? According to my own understanding I don’t blame this guy cos he was doing all that for the sake of earnliving to himself but the blame goes on to the tribe cultures practice. #chinamwali what a dirt belief! !!!!!!
A Caterpillar is a young a butterfly and it feeds on leaves but when it has developed fully it feeds on nectar from flowers.These are perfect people after their kind but not yet complete .
Komanso system ya lobola ikupangisa anthu kuti azigonabe mwachisanzo kuti tiyang’ane mitundu yonse yomwe imalola simaziwa ufulu wawo chifukwa amaopa kwambiri mafumu.
Mr president with due respect I think your judgment on this matter is not right, this man was hired to do this and you perfectly know this is practiced in villages am sure you are aware of of. What about the parents that paid him. I personally take your decision as a very oppressive. I think you should first arrest the practice!!!!!
That rubbish why not arresting the people that paid for his services