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A native of Ezima village in Isiala Mbano Local
Government Area of Imo State, Mr. Charles
Ikegwuruka, has been driven in a wheelbarrow
into exile in his maternal home, Isu, in the
same local government.
Charles was sent into exile for dragging his
younger brother, Mr. Osiwu Ikegwuruka, to the
dreaded Okija shrine (also called Ogwugwummiri
Okija) in Ihiala Local Government Area of
Anambra State.
Narrating his ordeal to Southern City News,
Charles (in his mid-50s) said his brother
(Osiwu) accused him of making his wife (names
withheld) barren.
It was gathered that Charles had consulted a
native doctor, who told him that a woman in his
family had a “marine husband and child” and
would not be able to bear children. The native
doctor directed that the woman be brought to
the shrine for cleansing.

“On the day of the cleansing, the native
doctor took them to a river, killed a goat
and strangled a fowl. He made
incantations an ordered her to strip naked
for a bathe in the river. Osiwu and Charles
were there and watched her perform as
instructed,” it was gathered.

It was, however, learnt that the cleansing
failed to cure the barrenness; instead it led a
crisis between Charles and Osiwu.
Southern City News gathered that the conflict
was heightened when Osiwu received a letter
from the Okija shrine, at the instance of
Charles, summoning him and his wife to visit
the shrine to swear an oath.

Osiwu reported the development to his
kinsmen, who ordered Charles to withdraw the
matter from Okija shrine. But Charles told the
elders that the shrine refused to approve that
the matter be withdrawn.

Charles’ kinsmen immediately resolved that he
must ride on a wheelbarrow with palm fronds
tied around his neck to his maternal home and
stay there until he withdrew the matter
lodged before the dreaded Okija shrine.

“Our son (Charles) has committed
sacrilege. We can’t finish resolving a
matter and still take it to a shrine,
coupled with other atrocities Charles has
been committing,” one of the kinsmen, who
chose not to mentioned, said.

www.gistsdaily.com/man-sent-into-exile-on-a-wheelbarrow-in-imo-statephoto/

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