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• Alfa connived with Babalawo to fleece me of N105m, luxury cars
Mr Animashaun, 40, is a Nigerian based in the United States. He said during a trip to Nigeria in 1999, he attended a special Islamic prayer session and fell in love with the sermons of an Islamic cleric, one Alhaji Afeez and they became close.
The Alfa, he said, also became his spiritual guardian and counsellor
“After we became close, during every Ramadan, my family and I would go to his house to observe our annual Ramadan prayer,” he added.
He said some time ago, the cleric offered him some already prepared concoction for him. but he said since taking the concoction, his life had not remained the same.
“Since I took the concoction, I became unconscious and I didn’t know what I was doing anymore. I travelled to the United States and I came back to Nigeria in 2012. When I came back, he brought a concoction to me that God instructed him to give me, that it will protect me from evil eyes. Even when I am in Nigeria, he would be the one that will pick me up at the airport to his house, where he would also give me another concoction to bathe with, claiming it was for my own protection.
“When I returned to USA in 2013, he called me that there were business opportunities in Nigeria he wanted me to invest in, especially property business and transportation business and I sent him money to invest for me. In 2016 he called me again and requested for a Sport Utility Vehicle, (SUV) from me, which I bought and shipped down to Nigeria for him. It was one of his boys called Saheed Ajayi that went to clear the vehicle at the sea port.
“For about six to seven years, I have not visited my parents or my siblings. Whatever he asked me to do is what I do. In 2012, when my wife and children went to his mosque to pray during Ramadan period, he said God instructed him that my family should stay under his roof. He said if they didn’t stay with him they were going to die. With the fear of losing my family, I allowed them to stay with him, since he is a man of God that I trusted so much.”
He said the Alfa was also demanding money from him. He said like someone under a spell, he went to the extent of parting with the money kept with him by friends.
“One day, he called me while I was in the US that I should lend him money. I told him that I didn’t have money, but had some money my friends gave me to keep for them. He commanded me to give him the money and after giving him, I begged him to return it and he promised to return it. Two months after I sent the money to him, he called me that I should send the names of those my friends to him, that he was going to cast a spell on them so as for my friends to forget the money or die. It was then I realised I am in the wrong place for years.”
He narrated how he was deceived into parting with his money, property, his wife and children.
“In 2022, he told me that God also told him that whatever is in my possession belongs to him, including my money, property, wife and children, including the money he borrowed from me. He thereafter, threatened me that if I tried to report to the police or go to my family members, that I was going to run mad or die and on resurrection day he was going to condemn me into hell fire and my family too.
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