in Mobarajo village via Ifewara along Ilesa/Ife express road in
Atakumosa-West Government Area of Osun State for alleged
felony, possession of criminal charms and fake currency, says
he has no regrets of his actions. He has since been granted
bail by the Osogbo Magistrate Court.
The accused, through his counsel Wale Idowu told the Court
he was not involved in dealing with human parts or any other
criminal activities.
Aliyu said he had been in the business for 12 years so he
could make ends meet. Before operating a shrine, he was an
auto electrician, then motor parts dealer, but was "duped."
This is when he decided to take up herbs business, and later,
into defrauding unsuspecting persons in Lagos.
According to him, the shrine for which he was arrested and
arraigned came into existence in January this year with the
procurement of acre of land from one traditional chief in Ile-
Ife inside the thick forest of Mobarajo. The traditional chief in
his confession later became one of the influential personalities
that assisted him in bringing customers from Lagos, Kaduna
and other parts of the country.
Though he was not reported officially by any of his clients or
rather customers, Aliyu claimed that he normally charged
between N300,000 and N400,000 from his customers
depending on the cases for which they are seeking assistance.
The shrine was discovered on 22nd October 2013 around 5pm
by security operatives following a tip-off. It was gathered that
one of the vigilante men in Ile-Ife had a disagreement with his
wife, and the woman moved out of her matrimonial home
along with two of her children without informing her husband.
The man reported the case at the Ile-Ife Area Command from
where a directive was issued that the surrounding bush be
combed along with the vigilante. It was in the process that the
shrine was discovered in the thick forest.
While the shrine was discovered, the woman and two children
had been located where she had gone to meet her relations for
the settlement of the dispute with her husband.
Upon the discovery, Aliyu Mutairu, otherwise called
Aburagbaja, a native of Inisa in Odo-Otin Local Government
Council of Osun told the security operatives that he was only
using the shrine to defraud unsuspecting people.
No corpse was discovered in the shrine, but a live python was
seen inside a coffin Aliyu allegedly constructed to invoke the
spirit that produced fake naira and foreign currencies.
He was also said to be using the shrine to assist people
seeking appointments into high offices, those in dire need of
children and all other sorts of related problems.
Arrested along with Aliyu Mutairu Aburagbaja were Eneji
John (55), Tosin Olalekan (17) and Segun Fakanyi (13). They
were said to be employees working for him in the shrine.
Discovered within the shrine were about 15 huts where his
customers normally stayed or slept whenever they were with
him, underground tunnel, different idols, tombs, naira notes,
fake dollar notes, black native pots, among other items.
The accused claimed further that the graves, masquerades and
other idols in the shrine were meant to terrify his unsuspecting
"customers" to do his bidding by bringing money for
sacrifices to appease the gods to answer their prayers.
Aliyu also disclosed that he committed a sum of N4 million
into the business, adding that influential people in the society
were those bringing customers for him. He normally had not
less than 15 customers in a week.
He explained further that all the incantations he spoke were
mastered by him from a particular book adding that he had no
charm to harm even flies let alone human beings.
Source: Osun Defender
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