₦airaland Forum

An 86-year-old woman is currently battling to retrieve N19 million from a blind herbalist who allegedly defrauded her under the pretext of healing her child and making money rituals for her, reports Head of Investigation Desk, KUNLE AKINRINADE.

The desperate attempt of an aged woman to prevent death from snatching her children has landed her in trouble. The 86-year-old woman identified simply as Madam Alimot had 15 children, but they were snatched by death one after the other until she was left with only three.

When one of the remaining children was also hit by a strange illness last year, the octogenarian woman began a frantic search for healing. In the process, she stumbled on a weekly programme on a popular radio station based in Ogun State, where a blind herbalist was advertised as a man with mystical powers to heal the sick and see visions about people’s life problems.

Consequently, Madam Alimot, who lives in Mowe area of Ogun State, visited the herbalist, Owolabi Adefemi a.k.a. Ojunu after taking down the his phone number and address, at his home in Ogijo, another community in Ogun State, for a solution to the sickness that had seized her daughter.

Unknown to her, she had walked into the dragnet of a fraudster. Adefemi was said to have told the woman that death was hovering around her household and could only be averted through an atonement requiring a sacrifice with a cow.

The desperate woman promptly provided the amount requested for the sacrifice, setting off a chain of subsequent requests for additional money for unexpected sacrifices that gulped a princely N19 million.

By the time the scales fell off from the eyes of the woman and her children, she had sold her two buildings while her daughter and granddaughter had warmed the herbalist’s bed several times.

The homeless aged woman and her children are now left to cry for justice and a refund of the money the herbalist allegedly defrauded them of.

She said she had noticed that rather than giving her a concoction for the treatment of her daughter’s illness, the herbalist kept saying he could make her rich after making some sacrifice with cows and other expensive items.

Alimot said: “He said we were taking the big cow to Agbara and later changed it to Mowo area of Badagry.

"We were asked to enter the house with our back to the door, and we saw a well-built young man on the floor. He said the cow we gave him money to buy had turned into a man.

"We were shown plenty of cash of different denominations stuffed in a sack.

"Babalawo Ojunu (Owolabi Adefemi) and one old man called Agbaakin, who we met in the building, then said that we could not take the money because we did not come with the third person. We left the place without the money.

"When we went back to him, he also did not give us the money. Instead, he said the money would just appear in my house with at night.

"Later, he said a monarch in Ile-Ife, Osun State had summoned him over my matter and that a sum of N2 million was needed to pacify the monarch.

“We ended up paying him the sum of N5 million on that day, but he never gave me any charm for my sick child and the child has not died contrary to what he said to cajole me to sell my houses and give him the proceeds of the sale.

"I sold the house I had built with N9 million for N5 million and gave him the money. I also sold another house and gave him the money, totalling about N19 million.

“I want to collect my money from Owolabi Adefemi a.k.a. Ojunu and Nigerians should help me because I don’t have anywhere to call home anymore.

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Blind fraudster still Sabi road to ascertain the bottomless pit of the lower abdomen of this old woman's daughter Tufiakwa!!!!!

Call god or juju and people will obey whatever you tell them..

Imagine

But did the children live?

she simply loves her family, that made her appear desperate. It's a pity!

Any good mother can fall for this scam, most especially when it comes to saving the lives of their children, she already lost 12 children may God avert bad things from our household.

But why money ritual at 86 years old or did the herbalist lie?

Now that Nigeria have no separate prison for the able and disabled I hope Babalawo will enjoy his watery beans in peace

enochogaga:
didn't blame the old woman, dem say he who dey inside trouble can anything to be free, I know some hypocrite here we abuse and blame her, not knowing the problem she is facing as made and cause her to be desperate

i love this statement..

Ignorance and gullibility played a huge role here as Mama is not aware of the strange illnesses which is snatching her children
On the other hand, the Octogenarian still wants to be rich at her age probably to leave wealth behind for her children. !

The surprising thing, blind Babalawo (with inner eyes) wants good things of life, talk about disability is not inability (abi how dem dey talk am?)

Some kind news person dey hear sef dey really surprise person o, blind man scam you still dey lash ur daughters join.. it's alright.

Relase the innocent man



Fraud is not a crime

When a story typifies the word SHOCKING

you came to the right place.. just bring 2 million. your money will be returned through the air in the middle of the morning..

Some people's conscience is dead and buried! Someone has already lost so much in life, you still went on to strip her of all her worldly possessions to the point of rendering her homeless. That herbalist deserves to be publicly executed.

aycorporat:
Ignorance and gullibility played a huge role here as Mama is not aware of the strange illnesses which is snatching her children
On the other hand, the Octogenarian still wants to be rich at her age probably to leave wealth behind for her children. !

The surprising thing, blind Babalawo (with inner eyes) wants good things of life, talk about disability is not inability (abi how dem dey talk am?)

Try to read and comprehend or are you an associate of the fraudulent herbalist? She never went to him for wealth. She went for solutions for her child's sickness. She has already lost 12 of her 15 children, desperation not to bury another pushed her into the trap and I don't blame her one bit. May we not find ourselves in situations that will make us seek solutions in the strangest places.

Yoruba and juju na 5 and 6

dominique:
Some people's conscience is dead and buried! Someone has already lost so much in life, you still went on to strip her of all her worldly possessions to the point of rendering her homeless. That herbalist deserves to be publicly executed.

Try to read and comprehend as well as what I stated there was that as a true mother, she was in search of solutions however, the herbalist introduced wealth making into it, or your Behind to condemn didn't make you see that also?

Try to read and comprehend as well as what I stated there was that as a true mother, she was in search of solutions however, the herbalist introduced wealth making into it, or your Behind to condemn didn't make you see that also?

She is the blind

I see so many blind people up there. Not just the “babalawo”…
And the grand daughter is even blinder

dominique:
Some people's conscience is dead and buried! Someone has already lost so much in life, you still went on to strip her of all her worldly possessions to the point of rendering her homeless. That herbalist deserves to be publicly executed.




Try to read and comprehend or are you an associate of the fraudulent herbalist? She never went to him for wealth. She went for solutions for her child's sickness. She has already lost 12 of her 15 children, desperation not to bury another pushed her into the trap and I don't blame her one bit. May we not find ourselves in situations that will make us seek solutions in the strangest places.

God will always answer your prayers whenever you called upon him..

The road station who advertised the fraudster is to be blamed

Fraud. People haven't learned that radio stations are the latest means fraudsters use to gain legitimacy. From ponzi schemes to get rich quick and scammer spiritualists, radio stations will advert for them if they pay.

I think it's high time NBC started dealing with all these media outlets that advertise anything without verification, just to make their own money, thereby causing unsuspecting public several loss physically, mentally and emotionally, advert like land and housing estate, pastors with spiritual healing, Alfa with spiritual power, babalawo with terrestrial power, investment with outrageous return e.t.c