This is Mustapha a.k.a Musty, a physically challenged youth in the Ketu area of Lagos state that has become an idol of sort among gamblers and sport bettors.

For those who may not be aware, there has been this strong belief among many gamblers and sport bettors that lunatics, and people with certain type of disabilities have a special divination gift that can help them to predict correctly winning numbers for all kinds of lotteries. In the gamblers words, these kinds of people are "spirits" and they can see what we humans don't see.

Splendormag.com gathered that the young man was born with a certain birth disorder that left him deformed and mute and he was only known to beg around for stipends in the area, until lately that there has been very huge demand for him by gamblers in the area who will corner him, and give him writing materials to scribble certain numerical codes for them.

"Yes it's true, Musty is an slowpoke(local but derogatory term for the deformed or those with Down Syndrome). This all started after Musty wrote numbers for a guy named, Kola a motor park tout in the area and he won 5million naira when he played with the code. The news went round and now everybody want a piece of Musty. They will give him N50, a pen and paper, to write winning numbers for them. It's unfortunate what unemployment has turned our youths into. They are just exploiting the young man," a resident in the area told Splendormag.com

Another source disclosed that it has even gotten to a point whereby some desperate boys in the area will give Musty stipends and still invite him to a local pepper soup joint for a treat and afterwards get him to write out 'winning numbers' for them.

However, the authenticity of Musty's magic numbers are being placed under scrutiny in the Ketu area as many gamblers have complained that more often than not, they end up losing even despite playing sport bets with the young man's number.

But this, according to another residence hasn't stopped many from seeking Musty's magic numbers hoping to win big in lottery with the 'numbers from the spirit world'.

Speaking, a sport bettor bears his on the matter; "Many guys in the area have different opinions about Musty's ability to give them sure (winning) numbers. I don't know how true it is but a lot of people have claimed to win big after collecting numbers from the boy, but for me I don't believe in such things."

The other side to the coin now is that, we gathered that Musty now goes about with a pen and paper notebook pointing it to every passerby offering to give them numbers.

When our reporter went to meet Musty, all he did throughout was to point his paper and pen to the reporter. He scribbled different sets of number codes on his paper and like a drug addict who needed to exchange his money for crack, Musty persistently and passionately waved the paper to our reporter with hope of exchanging it for a stipend.

Else where in the Ikorodu area of the state, there is a "mad man" popularly known as "Professor" along the Ijede road who is known for always inscribing all kinds of arithmetic formula on the road culvert with a white chalk. Boys in the area also believe that the "Professor" usually writes out secret lottery winning numbers in the morning around 5am and if you are 'lucky' enough to be along the road at that time of the day and copy the "magic numbers" from the culvert, you'll win a jackpot if you play your 'game' with them.

Some boys reportedly almost pushed themselves into a speeding on coming lorry recently while scrambling to be first to copy out "professor's" magic numbers.

Not only gamblers patronise the "professor" however, students who want to pass their WAEC and NECO believe that somewhere in all the formula the professor scribbles down on that culvert are the answers to some of the toughest Maths and Further Maths questions that will be asked in the next WAEC and NECO exams.
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actually they use the part of brain we don't use
autistic savants are well built in numbers and events memorizing but here in africa they are only regarded as lunatics
the OP made same mistake by calling Musty's disorder Down syndrome

BTW i dedicate this FTC to my friend's brother who is autistic but cooks up programming codes

for some lunatics that don't know the difference between autism and lunacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhcQG_KItZM

That's the only time they believe these madmen are reasonable

Oghene Bikoooo. Wetin we nor go hear for Nigeria?

[size=13pt][Many mentally challenged persons seem to have rare power in predicting events but from my experience or rather observations they seem to perform better when such predictions are not solicited for by consulters.[/size]

Op what do expect when most youth are Jobless and instead to get something doing they want to get rich overnight.

the hustle is real.

Crazy trends

Na wa

Lol

awon kingtom

Sports betting is really destroying our youths. I don't think there's a city where it thrives more than Owerri. Everything is bettable in Owerri. God help us.

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Very soon, they will graduate to the use of Albinos for rituals as it's being done in Kenya. It seems Yahoo + is no longer lucrative. Mtcheeew

Stale News......Baba Ijebu's candidates were the first to start these trend. Getting predictions from imbeciles, physically challenged, mad men and even using death dates to gamble.

Stale News

I've seen where some dudes were begging a mad man
to write figures for them just to win baba ijebu

are they not mad?

Gerara here mehn, you know wo am saying

Immature topics hitting front page on n/l

#i_bow

See as d boy serious

I used to know a mad man that can solve any mathematical problem.

Now that's the real interpretation of " desperate times call for desperate measures".

Rubbish!



The only thing that is real is this arrangement

Ok

THIS IS SERIOUS

Boys won hammer by force!

Only in Nigeria

ikk

So why hasn't the imb.ecile use the power to better his life instead

Since the guy used to beg before, let him enjoy free money and food from them while it lasts.

Autistic people are known to posses certain gifts which normal peeps don't have. Google "Mercury Rising storyline" to know what I am talking about.