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Rugaria:
Ghana has a fulani population in the northern part of the country too just like Nigeria. But unlike Nigeria, the Ghanaians do everything to make sure that nomadic herders don't become presidents. Met a Ghanaian once who was wondering how the fulani became so powerful in Nigeria when in Ghana they walk with their tails in between their legs...... You can't hand governance over to the custodians of the most retrogressive culture around and still expect rapid modernisation....... Simple!

ThatFairGuy1:
Nice one.


Meanwhile,
People that call Ambode coward today were the same people that supported and hailed El Rufai when he said he knows how to remove godfather in Lagos. But when Rufai recently opened his cancerous mouth to say 2023 will go to SW these people blasted him and called him all names.
Their true enemy is Tinubu. Any that refuses to oppose Tinubu is in their black book. Anyone that blasts Tinubu is in their good book.
I look all around Nigeria, my people are in every state. Igbo has been in Northern Nigeria much much earlier before we knew Western Nigeria. Yet there has not been any single record of an Igbo man being elected into political office or even nominated into a cabinet in North. In Lagos on the other hand we have continued to enjoy the benefits of democracy under same Tinubu, and our losses in some areas is result of our own irresponsibility and not because the system or Lagos godfather hates us.
If godfatherism in Lagos has benefited us in the most wealthy and most economically advanced state in West Africa, doesnt it make sense to support what advances our entrepreneurship and political ascent? I was born in Lagos and in the Igbo circle in Lagos, there are people who are fed up and disgusted with our style of political culture. I support them and im in that mold myself.
There is no president of Nigeria who has been as democratic and favorable to Igbo as Obasanjo did. Obasanjo is a godfather. Obasanjo made people like NOI, Soludo, Ihejirika, Ekwezisili and many more. Yet we are the loudest anti-godfatherism.
Even in North, where we have never gained any political benefit but have suffered the greatest social and cultural calamity, nobody even becomes a commissioner without godfatherism. My people love Kwankwaso but forget the man is a godfather. We love Atiku but forget Atiku is a godfather.
So my brother, those hating on Ambode are venting that he failed to fight against Tinubu when he had the chance. Obasanjo fought Tinubu, yet we still hate Obasanjo. The same Obaseki we are hailing, he went to Lagos to seek godfather support. He didnt get it. Akeredolu in Ondo, our inlaw, he fought Tinubu to become governor but has returned to Tinubu and godfather to seek reelection.
No Igboman living can swear on his chi and claim godfatherism in Yoruba people, particularly Obasanjo and Tinubu has not earned us advancement in Yprubaland and in Nigeria generally.
I want my people to know that the example of our progress and inclusion in Lagos and Yorubaland is a model that the Hausa/Fulani has copied and used to integrate our brothers in North. When was last time we hear of riot against Igbo in North? They have seen how our inclusion in Yorubaland pays off economically and they are modelling that to improve their local economy as well.
Godfatherism helps Igbo business and politics. My people should open their eyes and learn. Let Edo carry their load and fight Tinubu themselves. Edo no be Lagos no concern us. Lagos na our bread and butter, we must not ruin it. End to godfatherism will destroy business for us, let us condemn those that oppose godfatherism in Lagos.
Our leaders in Lagos have seen the light and theyve been drumming the beat, if you cant beat Tinubu in Lagos, join Tinubu to bring dividends of godfatherism to Igbo commerce and politics.
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tungamaje:
“The woman suffered with him when he was completely incapacitated. Whenever he soiled his body, the woman cleaned him up and bore all the pains. None of his family members showed her love after he left. And now, they want to destroy her new marriage. Is that not wickedness?” she queried. [/b][b]

What sort of prophetess is this? Is that what you preach in your church? Is marriage not for better or for worse? What would you advise her if she encounters a similar problem with the new husband?

For residents of Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, June was a month they will not easily forget. It has been one month that ritual killers terrorised different communities in the council area, and dispatched many people to their early graves for ritual purposes.

The fear that gripped thousands of residents of the local government could literally be cut with a knife, as they could not sleep with their eyes closed. But they have now heaved a sigh of relief as the faces behind the ritual killings have been unveiled by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Nwachukwu Enwonwu.

Victims of ritual killings

The first recorded ritual killing took place on June 1, 2020, at Akinyele town. It involved Miss Baraka Bello, a female student of the Department of Science Laboratory Technology (SLT), Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Moor Plantation, Ibadan. She was reportedly raped and killed. The killer smashed her head at the back of her father’s house at Oloro, Kara in Akinyele town.

On June 5, 2020, ritualists also smashed the head of a 29-year-old woman, Mrs Azeezat Somuyiwa, who at the time carried seven months old pregnancy, with a big stone at Ijefun, near Ojoo. Also, on Saturday June 13, 2020, a National Diploma student of Oke Ogun Polytechnic, Saki, Grace Oshiagwu, 21, was killed at Idi Ori, Sasa, Ojoo, Ibadan.

On Monday June 22, 2020, a five-year-old boy, Mujib Tirimisiyu, was killed by a ritual killer, who reportedly hit the boy’s head with a shovel at Olorunsogo Phase II, Tose, Moniya, Ibadan, when he was defecating behind their house.

On Wednesday June 24, 2020, the life of 42-year-old Mrs Olusayo Fagbemi, who resided at Ajibade Street, Sasa, Ibadan, was cut short by ritual killers. She was attacked when washing plates in front of her residence in the morning and hit with a dangerous weapon on her head.

Investigation also revealed that a woman and her daughter were attacked at Balogun village, near Moniya, the headquarters of Akinyele LG by ritual killers three weeks before Barakat was killed at Akinyele.

Police arrest, parade seven suspects

But nemesis caught up with 19-year-old Sunday Sodipe, who allegedly killed six persons in the local government for ritual purposes. He was paraded by CP Enwonwu at police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, on Friday, July 27, 2020. Also, paraded were one herbalist, Adedokun, 50, who allegedly sent Sunday to carry out the dastardly operations, and one Shehu, 20, who bought a phone stolen by Sunday.

The police also paraded another four-member gang of suspected serial ritual killers; including Abiodun, 35; Adeleke, 54; Bamiji, 65; and Ademola, 36.

Enwonwu said Sunday, the principal suspect, was arrested after Shehu was arrested in connection with the crime and the Techno mobile phone belonging to 29-year-old pregnant woman, Azeezat Shomuyiwa, murdered at Ijefun, on June 4, recovered from him.

He stated that after Shehu was interrogated, he denied his involvement in the crime but gave useful information, which subsequently led to the arrest of one “notorious hoodlum, who identified himself as Sunday.

“He confessed that he masterminded the crime and explained in details how he invaded the victim’s residence, where she was brutally attacked, robbed her before she was later murdered in cold blood.

“He explained that his modus operandi is to target females and attack them with dangerous weapons, robbed them before hacking them to death. He confessed to have also masterminded many of the killings in the local government.”

‘How I killed 6 persons for rituals’

Sunday confessed he killed Barakat Bello on June 1, 2020 and Azeezat Somuyiwa on June 5, 2020. He stole her Techno mobile phone, which he sold to Shehu. He also killed Grace Oshiagwu on June 13, at Idi Ori, Sasa, Ojoo, as well as five-year-old Mujib Tirimisiyu, at Olorunsogo Phase II, Tose, Moniya, Ibadan, on Monday, June 22, 2020.

He said his last operation was carried out on June 29, 2020, before his arrest when he went to Cele Alhaja, Moniya, Ibadan. He attacked a woman, Adeola Bamidele, 45, and her daughter, Dolapo, 23, with hand shovel after he entered their house through the ceiling, and stole their phones.

Sunday said he was sent to carry out the nefarious activities by Adedokun, an one herbalist, whom he said would fortify him with native insurance before each operation: “The herbalist would ask me to kneel down and close my eyes and put a fetish substance in my mouth.

“He would recite incantation before he would ask me to open my eyes and I would proceed on the operation. The herbalist would always warn me that if I open my eyes when asked to close them, I would be blind immediately.”

“The herbalist always told me to immediately after each killing say ‘Hah’ three times, go round each of the victims three times and thereafter stand at the scene for about five minutes, backing the victim. On many occasions, I would be at the scene when people were sympathising over the victims. They would not see me, and after the five minutes, I would leave the scene.

“I could not complete the ritual during my last operation before some night guards made attempt to arrest me. Two night guards, who initially came to rescue the woman and her daughter did not see me and I was there standing.

“As the night guards were leaving, one of them looked back suddenly and flashed his torchlight at me. I took to my heels, though I had not recited what the herbalist instructed me to say. I had not stood there backing the victims for five minutes.

“I don’t use any clothes to wipe the blood of my victims. Baba (the herbalist) has been the one sending me to kill people. But he did not tell me the particular thing he has been using the killings for.

“Whenever I went out for killings, Baba would have prepared amala for me before I returned, and after eating, he would give me N500. At times, he would buy rice for me, and after eating, he would give me N500.

“But I have not been removing any part of my victim’s body. I have not also been having sexual intercourse with my victims. It was the ‘Isinku Orun’ that has been having sexual intercourse with them as Baba told me.”

But how did he know that those people he killed were alone? He responded: “I would not know. But when I knelt down before Baba, and I closed my eyes, anywhere I went, I would meet only one person there. I have been using shovel to kill them. I used to walk to the places where I had carried out operations.”

I never sent Sunday to kill – Herbalist

But the herbalist said he did not send Sunday to kill anybody: “His mother brought him to me so that I could help treat the sickness afflicting him. His mother told me that he did not complete his apprenticeship in carpentry and that he was not staying at home like a vagabond.

“I did a charm for them (Ose eyonu) and they left. After two months, his mother and his mother’s elder sibling brought him again to my place to learn how to become herbalist like myself.

“But I don’t know about what he has been doing on killing people. He only spent six days with me when he came to learn about herbal medicine. He left my place in August 2016 and I did not set my eyes on him again until the police came to arrest me on July 5.”

The herbalist admitted that he denied knowing the boy when he was at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) office because he did not know what has become of him since he sent him away in August 2016.

Mother of alleged serial killer speaks

Mrs Bisola Sodipe, mother of the alleged serial killer, told Daily Sun: “We sent him (Sunday) to learn carpentry work. He would be wandering all about without staying in the workshop of his boss. We put him in three different places one after the other, but he did not stay there. It was in the struggle to rehabilitate him that somebody took us to the herbalist so that he would help us solve the problem with his charms.

“When we got there, we asked the herbalist to help us cure him and at the same time help us train him to become herbalist. After two weeks there, the herbalist sent him packing then. It has been long.

“After leaving, we took him to a place where he would learn about bricklaying. He would go in the morning and come back in the evening. But we never knew he has gone back to meet the herbalist. He did not come to sleep at home for two weeks.

We looked for him and we could not find him, until the police brought him to our house at Aponmode, Moniya, Ibadan, recently. I was surprised because he has never done that in the past.

“In our house, we heard the news about serial killings in Akinyele LG and we were very sympathetic with the bereaved families. My son (Sunday) too would come home and, together, we would sympathise on the unfortunate incidents in our local government, without knowing that he was the one behind the killings. He is my second child.”

The CP said: “The second gang killed 42-year-old Fagbemi, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Abiodun was arrested with a white handkerchief on June 28, 2020.

“He purportedly attempted to kill two other women.”

Abiodun the gang leader said he roped one Ademola, a cabinetmaker at Sasa into the case because he had a score to settle with him. But two other suspected members of the gang, Moses and Bamiji, who introduced themselves as pastors, said Abiodun lied against them.

Abiodun had said he used white handkerchiefs to wipe blood of their victims after hitting them with a cudgel on the head, and he would return the handkerchiefs to Moses and Bamiji for ritual purposes.

The pastor in charge of Christ Apostolic Church, Oluwatedo, Idi-Ori, Sasa, Ibadan, Ishola Kayode, the church being attended by the family of the late Grace Oshiagwu, said: “We know for sure that the dead cannot come back to life. But we just wish that justice should be served accordingly.

“These people cannot be killing for fun. Is it not deeper than what we are seeing? I think it is somehow deeper than what we are seeing. Let the security agents intensify more efforts. They should do more. I pray Almighty God will help them to reveal the hidden secrets there.”

In separate interviews, father of one of the victims, Pastor Benson Oshiagwu, and husband of one of the victims, Adewale Shomuyiwa, as well as the victims of the last operation carried out by Sodipe before his arrest, Mrs Adeola Bamidele, and her daughter, Dolapo, commended the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies that worked on the ritual killings in Akinyele Local Government Area. But they demanded justice as they noted that the ritual killings were for some purposes and no stone must be left unturned to get to the roots of the matter.

silentoperator:
Buhari should reciprocate the gesture made by those two who knew what they were doing. President from South EFCC chairman from North. Can we see the balance?

Bethel4Life:
Yoruba muslims should stay away from this threae pls