Confusion pervades Ogun community over the discovery of an underground facility with fetish items, shrines and other weird sights, reports WOLE BALOGUN

A strange underground apartment has been discovered in Adiyan, a community in the outskirts of Ogun State. The underground facility conceals some odd buildings in which were found mysterious and fetish materials such as herbs, bottles of dry gin, shrines splashed with blood, moulded images smeared with blood, white rappers, dry bones, dead animals and sculptures inscribed with inexplicable symbols, among other weird things. Many of these weird items, as shown in the pictures, were found in hidden spots in the buildings erected deep inside the ground.The road leading to Adiyan from Kola junction in Lagos is dusty and rough. Motorbikes, tricycles (Keke Marwa) and vehicles have a difficult time plying it. Although, it is highly populated, travelling to the community from Lagos is indeed a herculean task. It took almost three hours of hectic driving before the reporter found his way into the area.

The bus stop was Tobi and from there, the reporter had to walk for another two hours before he found the strange underground: He had to climb down a few steps from the top of a decked building before accessing the strange place which instantly instilled fear into a first time caller, no thanks to the fetish images and items that occupied everywhere.

Following an outcry by residents of the community that a ritualists’ den was found in the outskirts of the community, the reporter visited the place in a bid to investigate the allegation. The residents expressed differing opinions about the strange underground facility. Some said it is a den for ritualists who kidnap their victims and behead them for money-making rituals in the place.

Those who insisted on this allegation said that the operators of the underground building are usually consulted by big men to kidnap people and bring them into the place for the rituals. They added that the fetish materials found in the underground apartment further confirmed their fears about the rituals allegedly going on there.

One of those who held this view, who simply identified himself as Oke, told Daily Sun: “We have been wondering what was responsible for the mysterious disappearance of people and children in the community. Now, we know the cause. That underground place must have been the den of kidnappers who abduct people for the big men in our country.

The kidnappers usually disguise as commercial drivers and pick people on the road and blindfold them and take them to underground buildings like this so as to use them for money-making rituals. You see blood everywhere in the underground buildings. You also see many fetish items which they use to perform their evil enterprises. God has decided to expose them, that is why we discovered it this time.”

However, a different opinion was expressed by others who claim they are the real natives of the community. They insisted that the strange images and items found in the underground buildings were mere religious items for traditional practices.

Dismissing the allegation that the underground is a den for money-making rituals, they maintained that it is just a haven created by the traditionalists to worship their gods. According to them, those who own the underground apartment worship gods like Ogun, Sango, Obatala, Ifa and Osun, among others.

“It baffles me why anyone would brand that place as a den of ritualists or a hideout for criminals. Did you see any ammunition there when you visited,” a man who identified himself as a traditional priest in the community but who craved anonymity, told the reporter. “If you are a Yoruba man who is close to our roots and tradition, you would have found out that the items and images found in the underground buildings were mere worship items for our religious practices. The shrine you found outside the first building and which was dressed in palm fronds is a shrine dedicated to Ogun, the Yoruba god of iron and protector of the human race. It has to be placed there at the entrance for protection.

“The sculptures inside are mere sculptural images or representations of our gods in Yoruba land. The one that stands out is the Oduduwa image; that is the progenitor of the Yoruba race. You also see moulds painted in white and having their backgrounds dressed in white wrappers. Those are Ifa items. Ifa is the one who reveals all truths about mankind, it is the diviner. The inscriptions on them are indicators to this assertion.

The blood you see on the other shrines in the underground are of animals; they can’t be human blood. Gone are the days when human blood was used for sacrifices meant to deliver people from their bondages. And tell me, if the sacrifices carried out with those blood-smeared items are meant for liberating people from other wicked peoples’ bondage, how can it be human blood? It is also not true that human beings vanish in this community.

I have been living here for many years and can’t remember a time it was brought to our notice that people vanish anyhow. So, that allegation is far from being true, it is just an idle man’s ranting.’

The traditional ruler of the community, Oba Sunday Ezekiel disowned the underground facility when contacted to comment on it. He said he couldn’t remember a time anyone told him of the existence of an underground facility meant for the practice of traditional religion in the community.

His words: “It is true that we worship our forebears as a traditional practice, but we don’t hide it. I don’t know that such a place exists. Some have said that it is used by those who dupe people by pretending to be traditionalists.

Others said it is a place where ritualists hide their victims and use them for money-making rituals, yet some said that robbers hide their guns in the underground apartment. They have even reported to the police and we also informed the police about it. They have come to inspect the place. So, all we want to say is that we don’t want a place like that in this community. That is why we sent our men to destroy the place when news of its discovery broke.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/traditional-shrine-or-den-of-ritualists/

SOUTHWEST IS REALLY UNDER DEVELOPED. The yorubas need to change their fetish and primitive orientation.

I concur with Ɣ☺u 100%

Igbo Delta: SOUTHWEST IS REALLY UNDER DEVELOPED. The yorubas need to change their fetish and primitive orientation.

Mumu where is theodore orji and his okija people

Igbo Delta: SOUTHWEST IS REALLY UNDER DEVELOPED. The yorubas need to change their fetish and primitive orientation.

Mumu where is theodore orji and his okija people. They should arrest every flat head in the area, this is one of their area of specialty after kidnapping

grafikii:
Mumu where is theodore orji and his okija people. They should arrest every flat head in the area, this is one of their area of specialty after kidnapping

^^^Hehehehe

Don't blame it on the sunshine; don't blame it on the moonlight; don't blame it on the good times........blame it on the 'Igbos'!

IGBO-SON:


^^^Hehehehe

Don't blame it on the sunshine; don't blame it on the moonlight; don't blame it on the good times........blame it on the 'Igbos'!

^^^ thanks boss
Btw love your font

sw doin wat they knw hw to do best...kidnappin n ritual,upon all their so claimed education their pple ar d most primitive tribe in d south

Since the oba disown it,it is more likely the den of 419 herbalist

grafikii:
Mumu where is theodore orji and his okija people. They should arrest every flat head in the area, this is one of their area of specialty after kidnapping

YOU TRIBAL RAT OF A DELUDED REGION. I AM NOT WHAT YOU SAY I AM

bloggernaija: Since the oba disown it,it is more likely the den of 419 herbalist

Yor0ba should quite their fetish life. This kind of places and activities is rampant in south west

Thread ignored...

The kettle will start calling pot black now....infact, it has started already

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SW doing what they know best fetish and primitive clowns

this kind of news have become rampant in south west recently

Pictures or it never happened!

Tribalism will not lead this country or any of us anywhere. It leads to hatred then evil thoughts. Have a change of heart today pls.

Thats why we need to stop ibos coming to Ogun State cos they bring all their crimes with them Otokoto and okija shrine things

Otokoto again in Imo! Girl, 18, beheaded for rituals
Headlines Aug 19, 2009 By Chidi Nkwopara
Residents of Owerri were Wednesday morning treated to a morbid spectacle as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Doris Perpetua Obieri, who was murdered for ritual purposes.


The bizarre scene, which was a replica of the infamous Otokoto saga of September 1996, had the prime suspect, 24-year old Emeka Uwakwe, from Ndiakunwata, Arondizuogu, Ideato North local government area of the state, clutching the decapitated head of his girl friend, Chinwe.

Speaking to newsmen, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aloy Okorie, gave the names of the other suspects as Chigamezu Anyaoha from Orodo, Mbaitoli local council area, Anthony Obioha from Lude, Ahiazu Mbaise local government area, and the medicine man, Damian Joseph from Obot Akara, Akwa Ibom State.

Mr. Okorie gave a graphic account of how the sordid crime was committed and the efforts made by the state police command to apprehend the suspects in far away Lagos State. Excerpts:“You can see we have a case of murder for ritual murder. What happened was that on Sunday, July 26, 2009, the young lady whose head you are seeing (pointing at the decapitated head of Chinwe) left her Akokwa home, Ideato North local government area of Imo State. You can see the head without the body.


Late Chinwe before her death
“The young man, Emeka Uwakwe, is the boy friend of this girl and he came all the way from Lagos and lured her to his house in the village. He murdered the girl, cut off her head for ritual purpose and dumped the headless body in a bush. Apparently, the girl had told her parents that she was going to visit her maternal uncle in another village.

“As at 7.04pm on that same Sunday, she called her parents and informed them she was already in her maternal uncle’s compound and they believed her. Later, her parents made a call to her and the call was not pulling through up till the next morning and by Monday when it was obvious that she was not coming back, they made a report to the police that their daughter was missing.

“The names of the parents are Mr. Nicholas and Mrs. Theresa Obieri from Umuezeala, Umueziama Kindred in Akokwa. It was after they made the report to the police that some vigilante people on the same date, came around and said they saw a headless body in the bush. The police invited the girl’s parents and they identified the headless body to be that of their daughter.

“It was at that point that the police swung into action and started making investigations. From information, we got to know that she had a boy friend who is resident in Lagos and who was seen around home within that period. So, we went to Lagos and we were able to arrest Emeka Uwakwe. You can see him now with the head of the slain girl (pointing at Emeka).

“When we now got him, he made a confession that Mr. Damian Joseph of Obot Akara in Akwa Ibom State, though he is based in Lagos also, was the one who made the charm with which, if he got the head of this girl, mix it with the charm and bury it, money will start flowing, he will start plucking money as if he was plucking fruits from the tree. That was exactly what the man did. He (Emeka) got the concoction, mixed it with the head and buried it in his room.

“We also went for the Native Doctor and got him. Meanwhile, Emeka made a confession too that it was his friends, Chigaemezu Anyaoha and Anthony Obioha, that introduced him to the Native Doctor and that he was capable of making medicine for money. They also confirmed that they had done such a medicine before with human scrotum. We do not know whether it their own scrotum or other people’s scrotum. We will surely find out in due.

“You can see the pretty 18-year old girl (displaying her photograph). I am sure if you had seen this girl when she was alive, you will weep. You will certainly weep because I have never seen a thing like that in my life. I just imagine my own daughter of that age being slaughtered for ritual purposes.

“Well, in an era where we talking about people going to live in the moon, that is the age we are in, 21st century, and people are still being fooled that they can use human head to make money. It is very unfortunate.

“Emeka Uwakwe was arrested on Wednesday last week (August 12, 2009) and when he gave us the information on how he got about the whole show, our men left for Lagos on Sunday and we were able to arrest both the Native Doctor and the other two boys. The next line of action is that they will pay the price prescribed by the laws of the land. We all know the price for somebody who has committed murder. He will pay with his own life. There is no duplicate for life. If he had the courage to kill somebody, he should also be prepared to face the consequence. He should be in a position to say if he killed her with a knife or first strangulated her before he cut off the neck.

“It is very clear that the girl deceived her parents. My advice is simple. I have a daughter of that age. I know how we monitor her. Most times, especially in this era, if she has to go out, we must let go with somebody because you never can tell. That age is a critical period in the training of children. Parents should monitor their daughters closely. It is easy to make contacts in this GSM era. I am sure that if the parents had raised alarm that very night they did not see her, may be things would have come out differently.

Evil Forest in Enugu

Petrus Obi in Enugu reports that an evil forest where suspected ritualists dismember their victims was discovered in Enugu State recently. Fresh and decomposing human parts were found in the forest located at Inyi, Enugu Ezike in the Igboeze North Local Government of the State.

It was suspected that victims were taken to the forest and butchered by their assailants who in turn removed vital parts needed for money-spinning rituals. In an attempt to end the evil practice in the area, the people had petitioned the State government, urging it to acquire the expanse of land belonging to the village shrine, Ogene Mmili.

The natives that were worried over increasing cases of missing persons in the community, demanded that those involved in the killings should be exposed and punished.

Among the casualties was Miss Eucharia Abugu Eya who was abducted in the street and later found dead in the evil forest with some parts of her body missing.

It was gathered that Miss Gloria Ugwueke (35), and Caroline Odo Eje, a widow with seven children were earlier victims of ritual killing in the community.

However, it was the killing of Miss Edith Ijeoma Onu Ossai that sparked off protests in the community. More than 1,000 women took to the streets, demanding an end to the killings. Edith’s body had been found without her heart, kidney and private part.

Reacting to the spate of ritual killings in parts of Igbo land, the traditional ruler of Enugu Urban (Ogui Nike), Igwe (Dr.) Tony Ojukwu, noted that such killings were alien to Igbo culture.

He traced the ugly trend to travellers from Igbo land that visited other cultures and in the process, copied the practice of using human heads to bury important personalities.

“It was in the course of travelling that our people encountered these killings and tried to import it into Igbo culture; not that our culture encourages kidnapping and killing people. It’s the people who travelled out and visited some cultures where if a prominent person died, they would keep the death secret until some heads were collected to bury the person in strange belief that it add to the deceased’s prestige.

“Such cultures believe that the coffin of a great man must lie on top of some human heads. His kinsmen would travel out or move into the farms to behead people for burial of their dead. It was imported into Igbo land.

“Even in this place, there were times if important persons died non-adults were kept at home; they don’t go to fetch firewood or water to avoid being beheaded. But civilization and Christianity has restructured everything.”

Still in Anambra state, Dom Ekpunobi and Emma Uzor report that ritual killings seldom occur in the commercial city of Onitsha, because the area is dominated by businessmen, who believe in utilizing their time and talent to create wealth instead of engaging in diabolical means of making it in life. The fact, however, remains that those who found it difficult to remain afloat through hard work resorted to violent crimes such as armed robbery and kidnapping. Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka (Ogisi Igbo) who spoke to Sunday Sun on the implication of ritual killing, said it was an abomination for anybody to kill a fellow human being for ritual.

Chief Ezeonwuka posited that whenever such happens, the land is desecrated and there must be sacrifice to appease the gods.

He said that on no account should the blood of a human being be shed, pointing out that the gods decry such acts.

stop speaking grammar with these savages and barbarians.

for every one stup1d thing they post, they must be replied with 10.

Ebonyi: Baby snatched from mother’s breast

From Ebonyi state, Goddy Osuji reports that cases of ritual murder abound in the state and that several cases were yet to be resolved by the police.

One of the most agonizing was the abduction of seven under-aged children at Ishiagu community. Among them, was a nine-month old baby snatched from its mother, Mrs Alice Nkwo while she was breast-feeding the baby. The hoodlums later moved into the family’s bedroom and abducted two other children aged between two and three years.

Bemoaning her losses, Mrs Nkwo said that her mind had not been at rest because she could still hear the cries of her abducted children. This and similar incidents prompted a peaceful protest by women in Ishiagu community against rampant abduction of children for rituals.

Also, a 32-year-old nursing mother, Mrs. Nnenna Emmanuel watched helplessly as some hoodlums forcibly took away her two children, eight months old Chidubem Emmanuel and three-year-old Chiemelem Emmanuel on December 24, 2012.

“It was on the Christmas Eve at about 4am, we were sleeping when we heard the sound of a vehicle parking in front of our house. When the car parked, I woke up and my little baby started crying. I carried him to breast feed him while we waited to know the people parking their car in front of our house at that time of the night. “Suddenly, they kicked our door open and one of them entered the house, gave me a slap and snatched my breast-feeding child from me. The other person broke into the other room where my three-year-old baby was sleeping with his grandmother and took him, and they rushed into their car and zoomed off.

“We raised the alarm but before our neighbours could come, they had driven off. I noticed that they were four in number; two persons were in front while another man and a woman sat at the back off the car but because it was dark, I couldn’t see their faces.

Each night I close my eyes, I hear the cries of my two little children calling me. I pray they are still alive”, the distraught mother lamented.

Also, at Eketube in Enyida Development Centre, the headless body of an apprentice nurse, Miss Kelechi Nwawaka (20), was found behind the Comprehensive Secondary School in the community. She was allegedly murdered at Ndiechi Eketube in Abakaliki local government area of the state. Her head, private part and fingers were cut off apparently for ritual purpose.

It was gathered that Kelechi’s journey to her brutal end started on the New Year day when one of her relations, Mrs Margaret Augustine Nweke, invited her for a dinner in her house which she honoured, and later at night, she left for her mother’s house, escorted by the son of her hostess,

A search party comprising men of the Civil Defence Corps and some villagers later found the mutilated body.

Imo: Victims killed, dumped in Nworie River

Our correspondent, George Onyejiuwa in Owerri, reports that in Imo State, ritual killings have been relatively low compared to other neighbouring states. Improved security and clampdown on ritualists’ den in the state by the present administration may have accounted for this.

Be that as it may, there were pockets of cases of missing persons, who were either found days later, with their vital organs missing or simply disappeared without trace.

Recently, there were reported cases of suspected ritual killings especially in Owerri, the state capital. Among them was the discovery of the lifeless bodies of two female students of the Imo State University, with some of their organs missing.

The bodies fished out from the Nworie River on old Nekede road in Owerri metropolis, were suspected to have been dumped in the river by suspected ritualists. Also, there was a reported case of the body of an unidentified young man with missing organs found floating in the Okitankwo stream in Umuchu Uratta village in Owerri North council area.

Mr Ikedia Zereuwa, told Sunday Sun that he suspected that his younger brother, Iwuchukwu Zereuwa, was killed by ritualists who abducted him while on his way to their village, Umuakpu community in Ngor Okpala, from a business trip in Elele community.

“My younger brother was abducted while on his way back from Elele where he had gone to transact business, but he was lucky to have survived because the Okada operator that he paid to transport him to our village that night was an agent of ritualists. So, instead of taking the major road, he took him through a track road which he told my brother was shorter. They had just moved for a short distance when three men came out from the bush and blocked their way.

“It was from there that he was dragged to a small hut in the bush where there were other people. Luckily, the native doctor pointedly told those that brought him that he was not the type of person they needed and ordered them to set him free. But instead, the abductors tied him to a tree and left him there. My brother was later rescued by a man who had gone to the bush to set traps”, he stated.

Abia: Baby snatched from labour room

Our correspondents, Chuks Onuoha in Umuahia and Okey Sampson in Aba, Abia State report that ritual killing seemed to have become a regular occurrence in some parts of the state to the extent that many have become apprehensive when travelling in the state.

Not long ago, a newly born baby was snatched from the labour room while the mother was battling for survival from post-delivery bleeding.

The baby was yet to be found as at the time of this report and the suspicion is that it must have been used for ritual.

Few days after the tot was snatched, the body of a woman without breasts, eyes, and other vital organs was found in a bush path. Before that incident, a young man, residing in a village in Ohuhu sliced the throat of another young man who passed a night with him in his apartment and fled the village.

He was later caught in far away Port Harcourt, River State, where he’d ran to for safety. He was quoted as saying that a highly placed son of a notable personality within the community had commissioned him to kill the young man and bring some parts of his body.

Two years ago, a woman that went to her farm in Ohuhu near Umuahia in the evening was killed and some of her vital organs removed by unknown persons.

A community leader and one of the oldest men in Ohuhu, Chief Onukwube Anyanwu, told Sunday Sun that rituals are nothing, but sacrifices made to enhance one’s chances and opportunities.

“Different types of people in the society perform rituals and sacrifices to make strong charms for protection, fame, success, riches, etc. The highest of all the charms that can be made by man are those that demand human sacrifice. They are the major causes of ritual killings. There are many people within the society who are in a hurry to attain a particular height. They are not ready to wait for God’s time and for that reason, they want to push the hand of the clock to move faster. When the native doctors or herbalists see such people, they give them very hard conditions like the provision of human parts in order to get what they want.

“Human blood, whether we like it or not, is the costliest of all things mankind can possess. That is the reason many people seem to be succeeding in ritual practices. But whether they like it or not, those who embark on such things have ways of paying back sooner or later.

“In Igbo land, rituals are believed to enhance the chances of those who perform it to have one gain or the other. People consult an oracle and the oracle demands that the only thing that will make them succeed is to bring specific human parts.

“Time was when albinos and hunch-backs were at risk, because it was believed that the oracles demanded them to grant the desire of those who consult them”, Anyanwu said.

Prior to the deployment of soldiers to Abia State in 2010 by the federal government, kidnapping was the order of the day in the state, particularly its commercial hub, Aba.

Now that it appears that soldiers have put kidnappers out of ‘business’, these hoodlums have gone into another business – ritual murder. The most vulnerable are children.

On June 11, 2012, two pupils of Oasis Christian Academy, Amaoji in Obingwa Local Government, Prince (6) and Kenneth (4), the only male children of Mr. Chimezie Nwaoha, a mortician with a private hospital in Aba set out for school.

Ironically, the parents of the two kids who had prepared them for school before going for their various businesses thought they were at school while their teachers who did not see them in school presumed that their parents didn’t allow them come to school. Unknown to both sides, the children could not make it to their school that morning because they were abducted and killed for ritual purposes inside a palm plantation that overlooked their school.

Their assailants removed their vital organs including eyes, tongues, breasts and penis before burying the boys in a shallow grave inside the bush. The police later arrested four persons in connection with the incident. Speaking with Sunday Sun, the late children’s father, Nwaoha said he was yet to understand why somebody would cut short the lives and robust future of innocent children. He said it would be difficult for the gap created by the death of his two sons because the boys were his future hope.

Nwaoha advised other parents to, “look for maids to take care of your kids if you are busy all the time,” adding that if he had a maid what befell him couldn’t have happened. He appealed to the Abia state government to assist his family.

As the police were still grappling with the case of the murdered schoolboys, another suspected ritual murder occurred in the city.

A trailer driver, Ndubuisi (other names withheld) who hails from Amawbia, Awka in Anambra State, allegedly forced his wife, Chinyere, to drink some quantity of fuel and set her ablaze. The woman’s family alleged ritual murder.

Speaking on the incidents in Igboland, a chief priest, Kanu Nwaohamuo said ritual killing was not new in that part of the country. He said it started in the early days when able-bodied men, especially slaves and at times those that have offended the land were sacrificed to appease the gods. Children were not used for that purpose and ritual killings were not for moneymaking. It was done to either appease the gods of the land or as a mark of respect for a fallen king or great man in a community and were seldom done.

The chief priest regretted that these days, ritual murder of even innocent children, has become rampant in Igbo land, and mostly for moneymaking, describing the frequency of such cases as alarming.

He said ritual killing is crime against humanity and urged security operatives to double their efforts in fighting the crime.

The South South zone rated the lowest in ritual killings. For example, in Rivers state, Tony John and Canice Uzoukwu reported that the rampant crimes are armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Benjamin Ugwuegbulam (DSP), also told Sunday Sun said that there had not been any reported case of ritual killing in the State.

With the emergence of the month of December, which usually heralds the celebration of Christmas marking the birth of the savior of the world, Jesus Christ, many are known to have mistaken this as a time for stock taking on the achievement of the year, leading to their involving in several acts to ensure that they meet up their obligations by all means possible.



Chief among some of the vices people engage in to make money is ritual killings and armed robbery. This is a time when it is known that especially in the eastern part of Nigeria where the people value the celebration not for what it is, but for the mere fact that it is seen as a period for taking stock, and as such anyone who has not made it big to such times is simply out of trend.



This has lead to the popularization of the phrase ember-months. This usually starts in September, and is like a warning sign that the year is fast coming to an end, and a reminder that one must try to make it. During this period, vices like kidnapping for ransom, ritual murder and armed robbery rise, prices of goods in the market simply skyrocket as the trader tries endlessly to make more money through undue profit.



The above scenario could be said to be responsible for the fate of one Chioma Ezeonyido, a waiter at a restaurant [see restaurant] in Awka, when an okada operator who was to convey her to her home after a hard day’s job turned out to be a ritualist, and attempted to behead her after forcefully driving her into bush along the route they traveled.



This took place in late August of 2010.



Though she was able to survive the attempt, the story is a chilling one as the lady told it to ukpakareports.com herself, while doubting that she would be alive to tell her story as even her doctors gave up on her, having not seen anyone survive such cuts in her throat before.



Seeing the heavy stitches round her neck, where the murderers tore through her skin all round, one will wonder if her head had not fallen off from her body before it was joined together with stitches from her doctor. Coupled with that is another cut with a knife on the artery on her ankle, connecting her legs to her feet. According to her, this was a deliberate attempt by the ritualist to ensure that she does not leave the bush until he returns with a bigger cutlass since her head refused to fall off her body despite the cut round her neck.



According to Chioma, “on that evening, I closed work at Amawbia and felt I should use an okada to go back to the house, instead of the bus I usually board. I live at Nise, a village in Awka south. I met this tall and huge black man at Amawbia junction on a bike, when I beckoned on him, he was ready to carry me.



“I had no reason to suspect him, even though I should have. The man throughout did not say a word, so I would not know what his voice sounded like. I boarded his okada and he moved with me, we sped past a military check point at the border of Amawbia and Nise and were heading to St Paul’s College, Nise when he suddenly braked and said the only word I heard from him throughout the encounter. He said he saw a phone by the road side, and without seeking my permission, he simply reversed and went for it and on getting there we found out there was not phone, instead of continuing on the journey, he sped through a track road into the bush.



“All my enquiries to know why he was speeding into the bush brought forth no answer. At this point I sensed danger and thought it would be wiser to jump off the bike and save my life. I did just that, but as I landed on the ground I could not stand on time, even at than he too quickly dumped his bike and charged at me.



“The first thing he did was to use my hair tie to fasten round my throat, such that I found it very difficult to shout. We struggled with ourselves for quite some time, just as he dragged me further into the bush, then produced a knife which he now stabbed my neck with. As you are seeing these stitches on my neck, it is very deep. Something that my entire hand entered into. But surprisingly, I was not feeling any pain then, the man went further after trying to cut my neck from the front which is my throat, he stabbed be in the back of my neck and was pulling the knife so that the cut will join the one in the front and probably for my head to fall off.” She explained.



Though she was surprised why she should still be alive, she also believed that the spirit in her was more than the one in the man as he was obviously not happy that he could not behead her that easily. She stated that she laid still as if she was already dead, until the man feeling disgusted held her ankle and cut it.



This she said may be for him to go out and source for a bigger knife, while taking precaution so she does not regain consciousness and move away.



“After sometime, though I cannot say for how long, I opened my eyes and saw that the man was no longer there. I managed to move, how I did that I did not know. I found my way to the highway, where I fell on the road blocking the way. Every motorist that saw me refused to stop, rather they dodged my body and continued. Maybe they thought it was a set up. It was after sometime that the military people came, maybe someone had gone to alert them. That was how I was taken to the hospital and given treatment.”



Asked if she thinks it is a case of attempt to assassinate her, Chioma said she has not had any misunderstanding with any one recently or even in the past. She also stated that if the man was bent on killing him, he would have stabbed her on other parts of her body to ensure that she died, but the man was only particular about his neck, which she said is an indication that the man was seeking her head.



She advised people to be very careful who they went out with, or even the buses or okadas they entered as in her case, she never suspected that the okada man who she thought was looking for passengers could be having weapons and looking for a passenger he will be-head.

A man in Anambra State has been arrested by operatives of the state police force after it was alleged that he took thelife of his own mother.


The officers, deployed from the Obosi Police Division in the state, apprehended one Tonna Enedo, who hails from Obosi in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, on suspicion of the crime.The accused when queried gave a series of reasons why he committed the crime.

Nigerian Eye reports: He blamed the incident on his quest to make money at all cost, adding that he waslured into a fraternity. He said he has slept in the mortuary for seven hours as part of the money-making rituals.Tonna said: “I was asked by the chief priest of the society that if I wanted to berich, I should go and have fun with a mad woman.


I should also go and sleep with a body for seven hours; I should fast for seven days dry; I was told that I would first kill my father and the last stage is that I will go mad and after I might have completed all the condition, I will become the richest man in Africa, if not in the whole world.”He said he met all other conditions and wasplanning to kill his father when he mistakenly killed his mother.


He said it was after he hit a metal on her head that he realised he had killed the woman he loved most.

Tonna is a first-born from a divorced home. The parents divorced in 1984. He behaved like a mentally-challenged person in and around Obosi before the incident.

RITUAL KILLINGS RAMPANT IN OGUN STATE YORUBA LAND

Ritual Killing: Girl, 9, Beheaded, Student Rescued



The Tata community near Ijoun in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State, South-west Nigeria, was on Monday thrown into mourning when people suspected to be ritualists beheaded a nine-year old girl, Taiwo Ajibode.

•Jimoh, the suspected kidnapper.

P.M.NEWS gathered that Mr. Sola Ajibode, his wife, Mrs. Abosede Ajibode and their three children, Taiwo, Kehinde and Bukola Ajibode were on a visit to their aged grandmother, Madam Ashande Ase when the incident happened.

Investigations revealed that Mr. Ajibode’s mother-in-law, Madam Ashande, 86, went to the night market at about 8 p.m on Monday night to buy food that her grand children wanted to eat.

Family sources further disclosed that while the grandma was away, their father, Sola Ajibode was sleeping inside the old woman’s room with the other two children. But the late Taiwo was sleeping beside her mother on a mat at the backyard and when Madam Ashande returned with the food, Taiwo was no longer by her mother’s side. She had been taken away by unidentified persons.

A search party was organised. Assisted by the town’s vigilance group, the search team combed the nooks and crannies of Tata village to no avail.

The late Taiwo’s mother, Mrs. Ajibode, disclosed that, on Tuesday morning, she decided to revisit areas they had searched on Monday night. Then the shocking revelation.

“Inside a cassava farm, about 50 metres to my mother’s residence, I saw the headless body of Taiwo. And sympathisers besieged the location immediately. They expressed surprise that the headless body could be found in that farm where people had searched endlessly,” Mrs. Ajibode narrated.

A community leader, Chief Moses, the Akogun of Tata reported the matter at the Igan Alade Police Station and the policemen visited the scene and took away the corpse.

The parents of the girl, community leaders and members of Tata vigilance group went to the police station to assist in the investigation. But Mr. and Mrs. Ajibode pleaded that the corpse of their child should be released to them for burial, saying they were not interested in any case.

After signing an undertaking, the police at Igan Alade Station released the corpse of Taiwo to her parents.

But the majority of the Tata residents thought otherwise. They preferred a thorough investigation into the incident, claiming it was a strange and unusual incident in the village.

A community leader, Chief Adisa Fasina said he could not recollect such an incident happening in the community in recent years.

Meanwhile, an SS1 student simply identified as Sunday has been rescued from kidnappers in Lagos.

Sunday

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the incident gave his name as Bashiru Jimoh. He boarded the same bus with his other accomplice along with the student from Berger to Ikeja bus stop and they all sat at the back seat.

An elderly man in his 60s, Alhaji Yinusa Aremu said he saw Jimoh sprinkle a white powder on the student and he became unconscious.

Luck ran out on the suspects at Ipodo area of Ikeja when the elderly man who was monitoring them shouted “thief! thief!! thief!!!” and one of the suspects was arrested and the other escaped.

According to Alhaji Aremu, “I was coming from Akure and at Berger Bus stop, I entered a bus going to Ikeja. I sat in the middle seat while this student was at the centre of these men at the back seat. I thought they were together when suddenly I just looked back and I saw this suspect spray white powder on the boy. I wanted to shout but I was afraid, thinking that all other passengers were members of the gang.

“When we all dropped off the bus at Ipodo, the school boy was too weak to move, so these men held his hands and I summoned the courage to shout ‘thief! thief!!’ and this one was arrested while the other escaped.”

After the suspect was arrested, he was beaten silly by the people and he said: “the student is my friend, I am taking him to his mother in Festac,” but when he was about to be set ablaze he confessed: “he is not my friend, we met in the bus and I sprayed white powder on him because we sat close to him believing that we would be able to get better ransom money if we succeeded in kidnapping him. We have been doing it for over three years. My partner who ran away was with the powder.”

The sum of N300,000 and two phones were found on him, which he claimed belonged to the student. He also claimed that he gave N50,000 to the other suspect who escaped.

The student, who regained consciousness after about four hours, managed to mention that his name is Sunday and that he is an SS 1 student.

The suspect was later taken away to Area F Police Division, Ikeja, where the incident is being investigated.


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the only thing they understand and respect is igbotic english.

they will learn to have mutual respect for others by force and by fire.

Fear and disbelief gripped residents of Inyi Enugu-Ezike and environs recently when they discovered an evil forest near the town that served as den for ritual killers and their gory activities. During the search of the hideout of the ritual murderers in the town located in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, led by Rev. Father John Bosco, fresh and decomposing human parts were found littered all over the evil forest. Some corpses had vital parts missing.

Investigations by this magazine revealed that many of the victims were taken to the forest and butchered by the ritualists who then removed the vital parts needed for money-making rituals. Some prominent citizens of the state and environs are said to be patrons of herbalists and native doctors who perform rituals in the forest.

In a move that spurred national attention to the gruesome activities in Inyi Enugu-Ezike, residents of the town, led by Mrs. Theresa Mary Daya, Mrs. Mary Abugu, Ugwu Stella Chinello, Alomona Agnes and Mrs. Josephine Ogobor, petitioned the state government to take over the large expanse of land belonging to the village shrine, Ogene Mmili. The protesting women, who also demanded that perpetrators of the dastardly acts be punished, stated that they raised an alarm since the efforts of the men have failed.

Curiously, the unsuspecting victims of the ritualists were all females. Their names were given as Miss Eucharia Abugu Eya, 20; Miss Gloria Ugwueke, 35 and one Mrs. Caroline Odo Eje who was said to be a widow with seven children. The victims were said to have been abducted while going about their lawful activities. The choice vital parts of the ritualists are said to be heart, kidney and the private parts. The kidnap and killing of one of the victims, 26-year-old Miss Edith Ijeoma Onu Ossai, TheNEWS gathered, last month led to the insanity of her bereaved mother and sparked a protest by over 3,000 women.

The latest was the death of the traditional ruler of Umuokoro Autonomous Community, Umuogbo Inyi, Igwe Christopher Abugu. According to the villagers, this happened after he asked a mysterious cripple he saw in front of his house along the Enugu-Makurdi Road, Inyi, to leave. A vehicle was said to have crushed the Igwe immediately he left the scene. Until his death, the traditional ruler was cooperating in exposing ritual murderers within his domain. He was part of the team that conducted TheNEWS round the town on investigation.

As a result, Chijioke Ugwu, Chairman of the local council, has vowed that perpetrators of evil acts in the community must be brought to book as soon as possible. “My saddest moment was the killings in Inyi,” he told the magazine in an interview. According to him, the ugly incident is portraying his council in bad light to the outside world. To this end, he has convened a security meeting of the council to tackle the menace with urgency. The divisional police headquarters has been provided with facilities for a round-the-clock patrol of Inyi and environs.

According to him, the police have arrested 11 people in connection with armed robbery, rape and kidnapping in the area. But tracking down ritual killers in the town remains a Herculean task. Investigations at the Homicide Section of the State CID, Enugu showed the arrest of one Chukwudi Odoh, believed to be a buyer of old cooking pots at Obollo Afor in Udenu Local Government Area in the state.

There is another dimension to this development in Anambra State, where men who rape young girls for rituals have become a threat. This has made the Federation of International Women Lawyers, FIDA, Anambra State chapter to raise an alarm.

According to FIDA chairperson, Mrs. Margaret Nwagbo, Onitsha has recorded an alarming increase in sexual assault on women and minors in recent times, noting that no less than seven cases were recorded in the last three weeks of January this year.

She appealed to the citizens not to send out their children on errand unaccompanied, especially in the night. Nwagbo further advised parents not to cover up such cases. She particularly referred to a four-year-old girl who was molested by a 56-year-old man on the belief that the ritual would “make him complete”. Another girl who was sent on an errand at night in Onitsha was molested by some ritualists in a dark alley.

Though it was widely believed that killing people for ritual hardly happens in Abia State, a recent development has proved it wrong. Ebi Onuoha, a 26-year-old man from Igbere, Bende council area of the state, in a desperate bid to get quick rich, killed his mother for ritual. He was lynched in the commercial city of Aba. It was reported that Ebi went to Nguzu Edda in Ebonyi State where he consulted a herbalist to make charms that would make him become a wealthy man.

Impeccable sources disclosed that the herbalist prescribed that Ebi should kill his mother and excise her sex organs as part of the concoctions for the sudden wealth. Onuoha Elendu, Ebi’s father, unaware of the lurking danger, had travelled home for the burial of his close relation at Igbere. Cashing in on his father’s absence, Ebi connived with his friends and fooled his unsuspecting mother, Kate, into accompanying him on a stroll along a riverbank in the city. On getting there, his friends sprang from the forest, blindfolded and tortured her to death. They cut off her vital organs

Few hours after the woman’s absence from home, some of her children were anxious about her whereabouts, as she was not in the habit of staying out late. Subsequently, they raised alarm. Her husband was contacted on phone and alerted of the sudden disappearance of his wife from their family house at 97 Onyemechi Street, Aba. Friends of the family, relations and residents of the neighbourhood were mobilised to comb the nearby forest in search of the woman. When he was threatened, Ebi, it was gathered, confessed that her remains were hidden at the bank of the Aba river. The team became angry and lynched him. When TheNEWS visited the area, the scene of the crime was deserted, but a few persons living adjacent to the area confirmed the incident and disclosed that the corpses of the mother and son had been buried in Igbere, their hometown.

Similarly, at Omenazu road in Aba, the landlord of a three-storey building was said to have used his two sons for money making rituals after the mother of the two boys fled the matrimonial home for undisclosed reasons. The boys were staying on the third floor of the building.The first and second floors were rented to tenants. It was alleged that the tenants always noticed strange movements by their landlord at nights. Every Friday, the tenants alleged, they usually observed their landlord with a Ghana-must-go bag filled with money. One day, a member of a Pentecostal church started praying against the nightmares and God, it was reported, revealed to him the secret about their landlord.

On a tip off, the police invited the landlord for interrogation. In fear, the suspect fled, forcing the police to swoop on the building and, according to the people, the cops discovered the sons of the landlord, vomiting N1,000 notes that filled the rooms.

RITUAL KILLINGS RAMPANT IN YORUBA LAND

Father of two held for ritual killing in Ogun State
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Despite his consistent denial, Morufu Olanrewaju is an alleged ritualist. He is currently at the centre of the killing of a yet-to-be identified woman in Opeoluwa Agoro, a community in Ado-Odo Ota local government council. The community recently woke to see a mutilated corpse in an open place and raised alarm.

Saturday Newswatch gathered that the landlords hurriedly met to see how to go about the situation before it degenerated to public disturbance. They then picked a delegate to report the matter at Sango Divisional Police Headquarters.

However, those who reported the matter were not allowed to return home immediately.

While the landlords were moving from house to house to raise money to secure the release of the people at the station, they arrived Olanrewaju’s house and sighted an odd sign, indicating a strange incident had earlier happened in the house.

They saw a female item and tried to follow the clue. Hardly had they gone into a serious searching when suddenly they saw a knife soaked in fresh blood. This was what gave the suspect away. It was learnt that the news spread and some youth invaded the house. This was how the suspect was marked for arrest.

The landlords tried to search for the head and other severed parts of the corpse and succeeded with the help of local dogs, which combed the likely area and brought out the head.

“The odour, I think was what showed the dog where they eventually saw the head. The corpse was deposited at the Ota General Hospital. The overwhelming evidence notwithstanding, Olanrewaju insisted he knows nothing about the killing of the woman,” a source said.

Why the suspect might have a tough time in proving his innocence is the poser thrown at him, but which he could not convincingly address. He was asked about the whereabouts of his family at the time of the incident. He said they travelled to Benin Republic.

“Preliminary investigation showed that he deliberately sent his family away from the house to have freedom to carry out his plan. Don’t forget we have arrested some boys over the matter. But I should not say all we have so far gathered,” the source added.

Olanrewaju, it was also learnt lives a solitary life in the area since he relocated two years ago. He was said to have prevented his wife from mixing with other women including her neighbours. This, another source said, was one of the reasons he was put under surveillance. The fact that other residents don’t know the exact work he does helps the suspicion.

“But we have done our own by reporting him and our findings to the police. It is left for the police to do their work,” another source said.

Perhaps to allay the fear expressed by a section of the resident that he would be given a soft land, the suspect has been transferred to the Homicide department of State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital where he is currently detained.

Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, could not be reached before going to press. However, investigation into the matter is said to have been intensified. “The man would not escape justice,” the source said.

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