Another family’s world has been left in pain after their house got burnt in the early hours of today. A whole house got burnt and nothing could be saved. It is alleged that a nyaope boy burnt the house after he thought that there are people who wanted to kill him in the house. It is alleged that he came home late and started screaming calling people and saying that people wanted to kill him yet it was only him and his father’s wife. When the incident happened his father was not around. He kept on shouting and calling the names of people until he got to an extent of burning the house using petrol .
It seems like he was mentally not okay and it has been said that he has been smoking nyaope for the longest time now. Community members also revealed that sometimes he would come home and become angry immediately and start arguments with his stepmother. What is more painful is that the house got burnt with nothing that could be saved and this means the family will have to rebuild from the start . People can see on the video how damaged the house was and it is visible that no furniture could be saved as everything burnt to ashes.
It turns out that his grandmother who also living in KwaZulu-Natal passed away immediately after she heard that the house of get son caught fire. She instantly got a heart attack after receiving the bad new. It will not be a beautiful festive season for this family as they will be making plans to rebuild the house and planning the funeral for the grandmother who passed away. It’s really painful and heartbreaking to see all their hard work for building the house suddenly became nothing and turned into ashes. Many people availed themselves to help where they could in terms of stopping the fire.
It is for this reason that the government should educate people more about the consequences of smoking nyaope. Many people who smoked nyaope ended up in psychiatric hospitals as they got mentally disturbed. We are making an appeal to the public to stop smoking nyaope to avoid doing unnecessary damage and putting the lives of many people at risk. Share your views and follow for more news. Follow the link below to watch the video fully.