has engulfed many sympathizers with shock, pandemonium, and wagging of
teeth, following the bizarre tale of three young businessmen, Henry
Nwoke, Uche Ajujo and Chinedu Okonkwo who cruelly used their
friend, (28 year old), Eze Nwoke for money rituals. investigations have it that the friends recently finished learning a trade in electronics business in Benin City and they felt they needed spiritual blessings to help them grow once they start. They thereafter went to Oshogbo, capital of Osun State. It was learnt that Uche was the first among them who went to Oshogbo
under the pretence that he is a businessman who deals in antiquities.
He was said to have met one Saheed Okeola, at a bar and after serious
of discussions, he told Saheed that he was looking for a medicine man
who would help with charms for his business to grow.
with any part of human body. He was said to have agreed to offer
private part, hair or fingers. After the payment of N50,000, Mr Ojo
told Henry that he was to spend five days with him to conclude with
other ritual rites for money to appear, and for those five days, he
would sleep from morning till 4:30 p.m
everyday. It was after Uche left according to the native doctor, that
Henry later brought Eze Nwoke for the money making ritual to be made
from the payment earlier made by Henry. It was learnt that Eze Nwoke
could have been used for the money ritual because he could not be
traced, hence the arrest of his three friends by the Police at State
C.I.D in Benin City. No doubt, there have been several reported cases of individuals who were
kidnapped, killed, or had their bodies mutilated by ritualists in Nigeria.
This bizarre incidences have become rampant when general elections are
drawing near, and also when there is introduction of new naira notes to
the country. Other reasons responsible for this is unemployment and
desperation as well as uncontrollable covetous act of Nigerian youths
who are desperate for sudden wealth for self aggrandizement to meeting
their economic demands.
Retrospective checks have it that the most notorious of them is the one associated with one Chief Vincent Duru, popularly known as Otokoto. The police in the
southern Nigerian some years back in the city of Owerri arrested
a man, Innocent Ekeanyanwu, with the head of a young boy, Ikechukwu
Okonkwo. In the course of the investigation, the police discovered the
buried torso of Ikechukwu on the premises of Otokoto Hotel, owned by
Chief Duru, and uncovered a syndicate that specialized in ritual killing and the sale and procurement of human parts. The horrifying discoveries sparked off violent protests in the city of Owerri which led to the burning and looting of properties belonging to suspected killers.
Otokoto and his ritualist syndicate were arguably arrested and put on trial, and in February 2003, they were sentenced to death by hanging. Apart
from the Otokoto incident, there have been other instances of ritual
murder and mutilation in other parts of the country. For instance, in
Calabar, two men plucked out the eyes of a young lady, Adlyne Eze, for
money-making ritual. And in Ifo, Ogun state, a businessman inflicted
the same harm on his younger sister. In Ibadan,
the police in December arrested a taxi driver, Abbas, who used his
fourteen-month-old baby for rituals. Abbas killed his child in order to
secure a human head, which was one of the materials listed for him by a
local witchdoctor for a money-making ritual.
Emenike, and cut off his sexual organ with the intention of delivering
it to a man, who allegedly offered to pay 1.5 million naira ($11,000)
for it. In Kaduna,
Danladi Damina was arrested after he exhumed the corpse of a 9-year-old
boy, plucked out his eyes and cut off his lips, intending to use them
for charms. Recently a woman was caught in a bush in Warri, Delta State, decapitating a four-year-old boy for ritual purposes. Further checks have it that Police are only interested in making the ordinary
citizens to be used as guinea pigs, and object of ridicule in ritual
killing cases, while they cover the rich and the highly influential in
the society who are neck deep in ritual killings, having provided what it worth to silence them. Sometime in 2009 one Senator Ogunwale in Osun State
but to date, the Osun State Police Command are yet to place a face on
those responsible for the death of the female hunchback, Taibat Oseni
(22) who was gruesomely murdered in Senator Ogunwale’s uncompleted
building. Moreover, some have queried the source of wealth of the Osun
politician, Sen. Ogunwale, especially the first money he made, and with
the claims that he just dominated the business world in a jiffy. Yet
the man at the centre of the storm who is now a staunch member of
Action Congress (AC) his preparing himself for a gubernatorial poll in
Osun State despite this unresolved murder/conspiracy charges hanging on
his head.
culled from huhuonline.com
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