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Excess Bloodshed In Okija Shrine by DeepZone: 12:01am On Sep 15, 2008
Fresh killings at Okija shrine says Orbed Igwe
Written by Emma Nnadozie
Saturday, September 13, 2008
• Speaks on ex IGP, Tafa Balogun connection








On July 1, 2002, his strident voice rang out like a lone voice in the wilderness. Then he was just 44. He petitioned Police authorities in Abuja alleging that herbalists attached to Okija shrine in Anambra State were deeply enmeshed in not just ritual killings but forceful confiscation of people‘s hard-earned properties.


He went further to brand them cultists eager to drink human blood. Based on this, Police authorities under the embattled former IGP, Tafa Balogun, swung into action and raided the infamous Okija shrine. Their findings were as astounding as they were mystifying. The Police proceeded to arrest some of the Chief Priests of the shrine and at the end of the day, charged them to court.


Unfortunately, few months later, the same Chief Priests were discharged and acquitted and they found their ways back to the same Okija shrine, practicing what they know how best to do.


While police investigations were in progress, the man that exposed the alleged atrocities of the chief priests, Orbed Igwe ,was in constant threat by other worshipers and adherents of the shrine who are touted to be stupendously rich and brutal.


Severally, he escaped attempts on his life by what he tagged “seen and unseen forces”. At a stage, Igwe ran away to India only to resurface few months later boasting openly that he had been equipped to battle the dreaded Okija shrine Priests and worshipers.


Based on these threats, the Police provided security for him and at a stage, the diminutive but suave Igwe was parading virtually everywhere with heavily armed police escorts.


Today, Orbed Igwe who was seen without his usual retinue of armed police escorts is a very sad man. He said that all his sufferings and tribulations in the course of fighting for a saner society in Okija have failed woefully because the Chief Priests of Okija have started their bloody trade in human skulls and bones again. He spoke with Crime Guard exclusively.


Excerpts;


Chief, what has been happening to you after the Okija saga.


Nothing has been happening to me. I am very sad at the outcome of the whole thing. I think we have a fundamental problem in this country and that is cultism. From all indications, it is obvious now that those in power are very comfortable with the bloody killings at the Okija shrine.


A situation whereby human beings were made to swear a fetish oath and at the end of the day killed in the most bizarre manner and worse still, a group of fetish, blood-tasty people who masquerade as chief Priests, will compel the grieving family of the man they killed to unwillingly surrender all his hard-earned property to the shrine, is not only blood cuddling but highly inhuman.


It is shocking that this is happening in the twenty first century when our fellow human beings are seriously concluding plans to go and live in the moon.


But Police has taken up this matter and even arrested those involved in, 


No, No, No. Those people that were arrested bribed their way out of prison. I have evidence to show that they paid those concerned in order to be set free and as soon as they regained their freedom, they went back, full blast into their bloody business. You see, the problem we have is that of government nonchalant attitude to such serious issues.


Government just ended up arresting some of the fetish Chief priests and at the end of the day, did not care to ensure that such things did not rear it‘s ugly head again. This is just because most of them are involved in cultism and wanton destruction of human beings. After the Priests were rounded up, I called on government to convert the evil forest where the killings were taking place to a tourist attraction or erect either a military base, Police barracks or even school there but nobody heeded my advise. The forest is a vast expanse of land that stretched up to Kwale in Delta State.


It could even be turned into an Airport. But they left the evil forest filled with human bones and skulls and when these priests regained their freedom, they came back to the same devilish trade and it is presently booming.


How did the whole thing start Our forefathers were worshiping these shrines but after their death, youths aged between 18 and 19 years, most of them who were engaged in petty trading in different cities ran back home and took over the shrines.


During the time of our fore fathers, they use to bring people to the shrine once every nine years or more and they will readily justify that by making open the crime committed by that person and it must be a very serious crime. But these youths are now using it to extort huge sums of money from people.


They show their ill‘gotten wealth brazenly by sleeping in expensive hotels, winning and dinning with women. I joined Okija shrine in 1969 -73 and then, I found out that the Priests were doing their work with the fear of God. Between 1999 and 2000, some young men who were selling Okirika (second hand cloths) at Yaba, Lagos and those involved in selling Timber in the Mid-West abandoned their trade and came home.


They started by mystifying trees, giving them different fake names like ‘Ogwugwu Ka Ogwugwu‘, Ogwugwu Ogbudaa etc. They hired some people, especially commercial motorcyclists to scout for customers for them on 50% percentage basis. Before we knew what was happening, people including white men started thronging to the different fake shrines.


Then, in order to prove the efficacy and power of their fake shrine, they concocted some devilish native medicine which they use in killing people. They do this by writing the person‘s name in a piece of paper mixed with their concoctions after which they will put the whole thing in a fetish gun powder which will be blown either in a canon or a double barrel gun. After mixing these herbs and other unknown fetish materials, they will shoot the gun and where ever the person whose name was written on the piece of paper was, he will die.


The moment that persons dies, they will proceed to the family and claim that it was Okija shrine that killed him and they will demand that all the properties acquired by the man including that of his forefather, be turned over to the shrine, failure of which they would be visited with more death. They will also order relatives of their victim to take the body to the mortuary for embalmment.


From this stage, they have people that monitor the activities of members of the victim‘s family. As soon as the victim was buried, they will now go to the burial ground and exhume the body and take it straight to their shrine. If the casket is expensive, they will dispose it off without delay.


The dead body would then be left on the ground inside the evil forest after the insertion of gamalin 20 and insects would not go near because of the chemicals used for embalmment.


When rain falls, erosion will deposit these deadly chemicals from the dead bodies to the nearest stream where people go to fetch water for drinking and other daily needs and, of course, you know how dangerous this is to the health of the innocent villagers. That was how they kept on defrauding, intimidating, harassing and endangering the lives of people.


That was why I raised alarm and alerted government in 2000 and they were arrested by the police. The same suspects later spent over N40 million naira to buy their freedom.


They were responsible for the fate that later befell former IGP Tafa Balogun using their powerful connections in high places. You know Tafa was hell bent on prosecuting these devils and he had already gathered the recovered decomposing bodies of human beings dumped inside the evil forest for forensic analysis after which they would be prosecuted accordingly.


But their members in highly placed positions discreetly worked on Tafa without his knowledge and ended up implicating him in the scam that led to his downfall. That will show you how connected and powerful they are and what they can do naturally and supernaturally.


They did it so that the coast will be clear for them to continue with their evil trade which is spiritual assassination. They were able to achieve all these by convincing people to trust more in Okija shrine for instant justice than the almighty God.
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Re: Excess Bloodshed In Okija Shrine by DeepZone: 12:08am On Sep 15, 2008
na wah for this kin evil.
Re: Excess Bloodshed In Okija Shrine by ernecy(m): 8:06am On Aug 13, 2015
I don't know what to say o




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