An 86-year-old woman has narrated how she was duped of N19m by a blind herbalist in a bid to prevent her children from dying.
The woman identified as Madam Alimot, told The Nation that she had 15 children, but they were snatched by death one after the other until she was left with only three.
Madam Alimot said after one of the remaining children was hit by a strange illness last year, 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.
After visiting the herbalist, Owolabi Adefemi a.k.a. Ojunu at his home in Ogijo, another community in Ogun State, for a solution to her daughter’s ailment, she was told that death was hovering around her household and could only be averted through an atonement requiring a sacrifice with a cow.
She 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.
Before she realized that she had been duped, she had sold her two buildings and her daughter and granddaughter had slept with the herbalist several times.
Madam Alimot further revealed that instead of 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.
She 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.
“He asked me to pray on the young man’s body and stab him to death but I declined. They took our photographs and I challenged him to take our photograph at the scene while I held the knife in my hand.
“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.