The remains of Flint Given Matapure, the three-year-old boy who went missing at the Harare Agricultural Show almost a year ago, have not yet been buried three months after police confirmed his identity.
Given’s mother Wengesai Matapure yesterday broke their silence saying they had encountered difficulties from the Attorney General’s Office which has delayed handing them DNA test results conducted in South Africa early this year.
“We are still to receive the DNA test results report from the police three months after they (police) got a report from South Africa. They showed us the paper, but said we should apply to get it through the Attorney-General’s Office, but up to today, there is nothing. We need the paper so that we bury the remains which are still at Harare (Central) Hospital,” she said.
“When we went there (AG’s Office) yesterday, we were told again to apply and we made another application. We want to show it to our relatives because we can’t just tell them without showing them the paper.”
However, contacted for comment, Chief Law Officer in the AG’s Office, Chris Mutangadura said: “I am sure it’s an issue between them and the police, but as far as we are concerned, they are entitled to those results and as parents, they should get them.”
As the Agricultural Show draws closer, Matapure advised parents to take care of their children as “vultures” would be hovering around.
“I saw this time fit to break the silence on how Given disappeared so that other parents can take care of their children,” she said.
“People who steal children at the show do not take those who get lost, but those who are protected. No one knows how Given disappeared even up to now, but what we gather from what happened is that the girls paid for him to take a ride on the remote-controlled small car belonging to a Galactica company.”
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Matapure added: “He was supposed to ride for three minutes and when the girls turned to buy toys for a few minutes, Given was not there and there was another child in that small car.
“When the man who was controlling the car was asked, initially he said he did not know about the boy in question then he later changed his mind saying he had left him near where the others were standing.”
