Police in Mzimba are keeping in custody a 50- year – old man for allegedly defiling three underage girls and indecently assaulting 9 others around Manyamula in the district.

Mzimba police spokesperson, Peter Botha said the suspect Alford Alibad Ng’oma defiled the girls on separate occasions while they were coming from fetching firewood.

Ng’oma, is also alleged to have indecently assaulted 9 girls in January this year where he was rubbing charms around their breasts and private parts with the pretext that the charms would make the breasts grow fast and the private parts look good.

Alford Alibad Ng’oma comes from Yotamu Ng’oma village under Inkosi M’mbelwa in Mzimba was arrested after the mother of one of the indecently assaulted girls reported the matter to police.