Crime
Blind herbalist arrested for 19m fraud
A visually impaired herbalist, identified as Owolabi Adefemi a.k.a. Ojunu has been accused of defrauding an 86-year-old woman of N19 million under the pretext of healing her child and making money rituals for her.
The Nation reports that the victim, identified simply as Madam Alimot had 15 children, but they were snatched by death one after the other until she was left with only 3.
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.
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The woman 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.
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