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  • Controversy trail arrest of native doctor in Anambra

    Controversy trail arrest of native doctor in Anambra

    • Suspect still in detention
    • Residents allege political witch-hunt

    The arrest of the notorious native doctor Chidozie Nwangwu( aka Akwa Okukp tiwara aki) in Anambra State by the Deputy Governor, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim and Aginechemba security outfit has sparked mixed reactions

    While the majority are applauding the arrest of the Chidozie, others see it as a witch-hunt by the Prof Chukwuma Soludo government

    He was arrested in his base in Oba, Idemili South Local Government, on Saturday evening and taken to the deputy governor’s office for interrogation.

    The Nation was informed yesterday night that the young native doctor was still in detention and being further interrogated by security operatives.

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    Though he denied being involved in anything fetish, he had once boasted that he possessed the power to vanish.

    It was further gathered that he performs rituals, including making the young rich

    He flaunts his advertorials on social media platforms, which had captured the attention of the gullible young students in and outside the state.

    Some of the chaps have told their parents that they would not want to continue their education, especially some of them in secondary after watching Akwa okuko tiwara Ali’s magics on social media

  • Fake cleric arraigned for rape in Lagos

    A 42-year-old man, Wasiu Lawal, who allegedly raped a 38-year-old woman on the pretext of helping her spiritually, was on Wednesday in Lagos brought before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court.

    The accused, who lives at No.1, Adeleke Agodo St., Ikorodu in Lagos State, is facing a charge of rape.

    The prosecutor, Sgt. Christopher Okoniko told the court that the accused committed the offence at about 9.00p.m. on July 1 in Lagos.

    He said that the accused, who claimed to be a pastor, native doctor and a Muslim cleric (alfa) forcefully had a sexual intercourse with the woman under the guise of “praying” for her.

    The complainant said she did not know how she ended up sleeping in the man’s house till the next day.

    “She said the next day she narrated the story to her husband who reported the matter at Ikorodu police station which led to the arrest of the accused,” she said.

    “The accused uses one room for pastoral work, the second room to consult as herbalist and the third one for Muslim cleric (Alfa) work, “ he said.

    The offences contravened Section 258 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.

    The Magistrate, Mrs A. Dan Oni, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties.

    She said that one of them must be gainfully employed with an evidence of tax payment.

    The case was adjourned till Sept. 14 for mention. 

  • Native doctor arraigned over alleged rape

    Native doctor arraigned over alleged rape

    A native doctor, Babatunde Ajisoloye, was on Friday charged before an Ikeja High Court for alleged sexual assault and rape.

    Ajisoloye whose age and residential address were not given, however, denied the two-count charge.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajisoloye had no legal representation in court.

    The prosecutor, Mrs A.B. Awosika, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Aug. 10, 2014 at Marvina Hotel in Abule-Egba, a suburb of Lagos.

    Awosika said the defendant sexually assaulted a woman (name withheld) by removing her clothes and rubbing an unknown substance on her body.

    According to her, “The defendant proceeded to have an unlawful sexual intercourse with the victim without her consent.”

    She said that the offences were in contravention of Sections 258 (1) and 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    NAN reports that Section 258(1) states that, ‘’any man who has unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman or girl, without her consent, is guilty of the offence of rape and liable to imprisonment for life.’’

    Justice Kudirat Jose ordered that a probono counsel should be provided for Ajisoloye and adjourned the case till March 9 and March 10 for trial.

  • ‘A native doctor impregnated my wife – now I’m considering suicide!’


    (A married couple who have been childless for years seek unorthodox means of getting a child with dire consequences)   ***   I would have picked the other alternative if I had known that my mother’s suggestion would bring calamity to my marriage. But as the saying goes, ‘had I known always comes last.’ My marriage was the type every man dreams to have, a union built on love, trust, but it was destroyed because our union was fruitless. My mother brought up the idea of my wife seeing a herbalist or native doctor who lived in a village close to ours. My wife and I rejected the idea but we gave in due to her endless pressure from my mother. I could remember that day vividly, the day I accepted the option. "Rufus,” my mother called me that evening during the family meeting. “It is over thirteen years since you got married and no child to show for it. At first you said you were trying your best, this changed to God knows and from that to God’s time is the best. Don’t you know that heaven helps those who help themselves? All my friends are holding their grandchildren in their arms except me. Do you want me to die without seeing my grandchildren?” Nana, as she was fondly called by all, asked with her hands spread towards heaven as if she was addressing someone there.   “Mother, what do you want us to do? Is it not God that gives children and he will give us children at his own time,” I replied. “My son, you’re playing with fire and I hope it doesn’t consume you because you’re not getting any younger and the earlier you start looking for your black goat before nightfall, the better for you,” she warned, pulling her left ear. “I don’t have any problem going to the place,”my wife put in, “but you know your son.” “My dear, you can follow me to the place when I’m leaving. Men at times don’t face reality until its too late. Anyway, the place is not as bad as you people think it is. I’m doing this for the sake of the two of you,” she asserted. “There is no way I will let my wife see that fetish man just because we want children,” I stressed almost shouting at them. The issue was never discussed again until my mother took her leave. Naomi continued from where mother stopped and mounted more pressure on me to let her see the herbalist. My home became a living hell for me; I would have said my mother bewitched my wife if not that I knew my mother too well. “Honey,” she called me during dinner on a Sunday evening, while holding my hands across the table, “Why can’t we try mother’s suggestion and see what happens?” “What do you mean?” he asked “Don’t you want to have children?” she asked in reply. “Am I complaining, and what has come over you? We will surely have children; we will wait as long as it takes.” “It’s easy for you to say that because you are not the one receiving all the insults I receive on daily basis due to my inability to give you children,” she complained almost to the point of crying. “Besides, women have limited time for giving birth,” she continued nagging. “Please woman, don’t start with your emotional blackmail and let me eat in peace,” I said without taking my face away from the food in front of me. Her disturbance became more persistent; in fact, it got to a stage where I did not have peace in my home, which made me allow her travel to the village. My wife took a leave of absence from her office and went to the village. She spent three months and it was not easy for me to cope without her presence in the house because we had never stayed away from each other for that long... To be continued...   For Archive, Visit Patience Saduwa

  • I was deceived by the charm a native doctor gave me — Teenage suspect in police net

    I was deceived by the charm a native doctor gave me — Teenage suspect in police net

    A TEENAGER and suspected leader of a 10-man robbery gang, Adeyanju Adebambo, and four other members of the said gang have been arrested by the police for allegedly robbing a female student of Senior High School, Okota in Isolo area of Lagos. Sixteen-year-old Adebambo, a native of Onitire community in Lagos, who claimed to be a tricycle operator, was arrested along with Kehinde Smith (18), Onyebuchi Okorie (18), Elijah Ojo (15) and Abiaka Samuel (18). Five other suspected members of the gang identified as Kehinde Senior, Solomon, Victor, Sako and Akeem, are, however, at large.

    But Adebambo has denied being an armed robber, saying that he is an SS 1 student of Itire High School combining his studies with commercial tricycle business to fund his education and help his parents in the education of his younger ones.

    He said: “I am not an armed robber. It was only one of us called Onyebuchi who robbed a female student of her Nokia phone. I was recruited by one Kehinde, a tailor and close friend, to go to Central High School, Okota to fight the boys who were claiming to be our superiors in the area and had wounded one of us.

    “We had been fighting like that and the police would not arrest any of us because we never robbed anyone. After beating up our victims, we would quietly return home hoping and believing that no policeman would dare come after us. Otherwise, our parents would storm the police station to demand an explanation for our arrests. They have the phone numbers of senior police officers in Lagos who they would call and none of us would be detained. But up till now, none of our parents has come to ask why we were arrested.”

    Adeyanju, who was caught with a charm, said the charm was given to him by a native doctor called Baba Rashida. But he believed that he was deceived by the said native doctor. “He said with the charm, I would never be arrested by the police, but here I am in police net. I will never trust a fake native doctor again,” he said.

    Narrating his journey into police cell, he said: “I was sleeping in our house in the morning and Kehinde came and woke me up. He said we should go to the school to fight one Spako. I asked why and he said Spako threw a stone at Sunkanmi the previous day as we were returning from school and wounded him. He had agreed to pay me the sum of N1, 500, which is the sum I deliver to the owner of the tricycle on a daily basis.

    “On getting there, I discovered that about 10 of us had been invited. And to my greatest surprise, it was not what we discussed about that they were doing. They started behaving like armed robbers, beating people and snatching phones and handbags.

    “The robbery actions started when one of us, named Onyebuchi, collected a Nokia phone from a female student of the school. The girl’s cry that she had been robbed of her phone and the robber trying to kill her with a knife attracted the attention of other students who pursued us and caught us at Cele Bus Stop on the Mile 2-Oshodi Expressway.

    “Some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who were loading buses at the junction, helped the students to arrest us and handed us over to the police in Okota. So, I am not the gang leader. I was hired to follow them.”

    Asked why he thought their parents had not stormed the police station as expected, he said it was because the parents knew that robbery was involved. “Onyebuchi robbed the girl of her phone and beat her up,” he said.

    On the charm that was found on him, he said Baba Rashida, who gave him the charm free of charge, was his cousin based in Sango-Ota, Ogun State. He said the only condition he gave him was that he should not eat any food cooked with palm oil or salt any time he wanted to go for an ‘operation’. He said the charm was meant to make it impossible for him to sustain wounds from bullets, dagger, sword or any dangerous weapon. “And if the person wearing the charm hits an opponent with a blow, the opponent will crumble like a pack of cards.

    “I am not sure that the police would be able to catch him because of his charm. People know him as a great juju man. He is capable of disappearing when he senses danger. If he sees policemen, he will disappear. They call him the wind that cannot be trapped.”

    Asked how much he got from the robbery operation that took place at the high school in Okota, he said he was not involved in the robbery.

    He said: “It was Onyebuchi who robbed, I only got the N1,500 promised me, being the money I should deliver to the owner of the tricycle I work with. I did not know that my members were armed with dangerous weapons. Everything turned out like a film to me. I did not know that they would act like that.”

    Another suspected member of the gang, Kehinde Smith, said he trained as a tailor, adding that he uses one of his mother’s rooms as a workshop.

    He said: “I did not know that Onyebuchi would rob the school girl. I went there to fight and not to rob. I collected the knife I held from one small boy. When we got to the school, we waited till they closed. We were expecting the guy that wounded our friend, Sukanmi. His name is Spako. We wanted him to come out so that we would beat him up, but some of my members lost control, to the point that one of them named Onyebuchi started robbing people. He robbed a girl of her phone and her cry attracted other students who pursued us.

    “I am not a robber. I can never rob. I went there to fight and not to rob. I am from a decent family. This is my third time of engaging in such a fight. It was Onyebuchi who brought us into this trouble.”

    Onyebuchi, who claimed to be a native of Ebehigo community, Ngwaokwala, Imo State and a trained auto mechanic, however, said their mission to the school was not just to fight but also to rob.

    He said: “They are all liars. We went there to fight but could also collect phones and money. Any of us could collect phones. It is because it was only one phone we had collected before they started pursuing us that they are telling lies against me. If we had not been pursued, they would have collected more than 10 phones.

    “I did not go there with any knife. I collected the knife from the opposing side as we were fighting. Whenever we fight, we collect something from the enemies. When they are defeating us too, we would run and they would like to collect our phones, weapons and anything we came with.”

    The fourth suspect, Elijah Ojo, a native of Awe village, Oyo State, who claimed to be a generator repairer, confessed to the crime, saying: “We usually fight and collect handsets. I will not follow them again, especially now that I know that our action is criminal.”

    The fifth suspect, Abiaka Samuel, an indigene of Imo State, said he took exception to the phone that was collected. “We went there to fight and, all of a sudden, some of us started robbing. It was a big surprise to me. I would not have followed them if I knew that some of us are armed robbers,” he said.

    Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the suspects, one of the victims, Taiwo Quadri (17), an SSS3 student of Central High School, Okota, said: “One of my junior ones, Tosin Bajela (15) and others were going home after school at about 1.30 pm when we suddenly saw some boys who were looking aggressive. One of them called the girl and ordered her to hand over her phone to him but the girl refused. He pointed his knife at her and forcibly removed the phone from her and ran away.

    “One of our students saw him and ran after him. We pursued the thieves up to Cele Bus Stop where they attempted to run across the expressway, but some NURTW members saw them, apprehended them and took them to the policemen attached to an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) at the bus stop.

    “They later took them to Okota Police Station and handed them over to the Divisional Police Officer, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Ibrahim Adamu, who addressed us and detained the suspects for investigation while we were asked to come back the following day to collect our phones.”

  • Native doctor, eight others arrested for killing abducted 84-year-old monarch’s wife

    THE police in Enugu State have arrested nine persons described as notorious kidnappers including a native doctor alleged to be the one who usually prepares charm for them. Their arrest followed their kidnap and killing of the wife of a traditional ruler of Ogogoro community in Igboeze North Local Government of Enugu State. The 84-year-old wife of the traditional ruler, Madam Adiza Ogbo was allegedly abducted by the men and taken to an unknown destination. Enugu Police Command spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, said the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Abubakar Mohammed, ordered for a full-scale investigation, which led to the arrest of the suspects. They were arrested after a severe gun duel with the operatives when they wer The leader of the gang, Paschal, alias Achisa, in his confession, disclosed how he and his gang had carried out the kidnap of the late Madam Adisa Ogbo and how she was eventually buried by him and other members of his gang in his compound. They had kept her there awaiting the payment of the sum of N10million earlier demanded as ransom, But after a week and the ransom did not come, according to the confession of the gang leader, the old woman died and they decided to bury her in a shallow grave in his compound. He further revealed that he also collected the sum of three hundred thousand naira from the family of the victim after the death of the woman, unknown to their relations that the woman was dead. He further disclosed that his gang used to work hand in hand with the native doctor who normally prepares charm for them and that they used to give the native doctor rams and the sum of N30,000 or N50,000 depending on the proceeds from their ransom. He said he regretted his action and advised people to stay out of crime and criminality as one’s sin is bound to find him out one day.