Mining: Sounds like a good way to get killed.

Here, everyone is always looking for their big break. People are always looking for someone else to pay for their lunch. I overheard in Café Javas the other day, one lady commenting to her friend, “Where is the money from the sale of your Mother’s house?” As in, that should take care of lunch, right? Not so fast.

In the process of seeing the inside workings of the mining land my husband’s family owns, I have learned first hand how the owners of this cursed property rarely see a cent. So, someone has found minerals worth mining! Excellent! Everyone starts to imagine how they might profit from this. When my husband told me this, I said, “Managing that project sounds like a good way to get killed!”

This week has been a case in point. Two people have been killed within the space of a week. One of them, a young man, was the son of a tenant. The other was a tenant. The young man was hacked to death with a machete. Money and the greed for money was involved. The young man’s friend was taken into custody. It was found out that the young man’s friend had stolen a motorcycle from 80 miles away and had brought it to the mine to help him make money. He became the primary suspect until the dead young man’s mother went to a witch doctor to purchase a spell to “kill the case.” The witch doctor went to the police and now the mother is also in custody.

The other individual who died was a male tenant who was either poisoned or died from juju, as the report says.