A businesswoman and the prosecution witness in a criminal
trial, Mrs. Abiola Olatunji, has told a Lagos chief magistrate court,
sitting at Ebute-Metta, how her 18-year-old maid, Iyanuoluwa Abayomi,
confessed to theft through the administration of juju by a traditional
thief-catcher known as “Ajilegege”.
Olatunji, who is also
the complainant, testified at the resumed trial of the maid and her two
alleged accomplices, Mrs. Christiana Arawunmi, 47 and Omolade Omowunmi,
47.
The threesome were slammed with an eight-count charge of
conspiracy, stealing of jewellery and money, and receiving stolen goods.
Mrs.
Olatunji told the court that the defendant confessed to the crimes
after she was asked to hold a calabash with feathers by Ajilegege at
Idimu, Lagos, where she (Olatunji) took her to. She said she had to
resort to the traditional method of detecting the crime, because several
thefts had occurred in her house and all pleas to make the maid confess
proved abortive.
According to her, all 13 people who were in the
house went to Ajilegege and were made to carry the calabash, when it got
to Iyanuoluwa’s turn, she started confessing and when they got home
Iyanu brought a wrapped black nylon in which she had hidden N93, 000, an
amount greater than the N86, 000 which was missing.
She said that
other amounts, N350, 000 and N25, 000, and some of her jewellery had
been missing between March 3 and April, 2013, and that she would have
forgiven the maid but for the statement of the third defendant (Omolade
Omowunmi)’s husband, that she (Olatunji) was accusing the maid wrongly.
The
defendants were first arraigned in June 2013, when one of them,
Christiana Arawunmi, pled guilty to the charge of receiving stolen goods
and money from the maid, and was sentenced to a year in prison.
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