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Sunday, August 29 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News okija shrines priests confess AS the Okija shrines episode continues to generate ripples across Nigeria and beyond, 12 of the 43 suspects have reportedly admitted that they took advantage of the shrines to enrich themselves as well as further other selfish pursuits. Chilling confessions of the suspects pieced together from police sources by Saturday Champion, indicate that some of those in police custody have stated that the state of the buildings, exotic cars and other posh property they acquired, were obtained through the deployment of their influence against unsuspecting victims. Twelve of the 43 suspects being detained at Abuja were said to have confessed that they used the Ogwugwu shrines to their personal advantage. For instance, one of them, who is a prominent member of the Anglican Church as well as another, known as a leaching figure in one of the Pentecostal churches in Okija, revealed that he deceived people with the shrines into partying with their money and property. Police sources stated that "their people would make fake copies of the Ogwugwu shrines’ letter of summons and issue same to a complainant who then hands it over to the other party. "Rather than allow the parties to come to the shrines on their own accord, they would mount pressure on them, hijack them to their personal shrines and hoodwink them into believing they were dealing with the genuine Ogwugwu shrine priests. "Through this art, they would make both parties to part with huge sums of money or in the alternative they would deploy other unlawful means to deal with one of the parties," the sources stated. It was gathered that through this method, the claimant to priesthood of the shrines have made fortunes and usually used such ill-gotten wealth to terrorise other people in the Okija, Ihiala and adjoining communities. When contacted, Mr. Chris Olakpe, the Force Public Relations Officer, confirmed that the suspects were actually being interrogated and that they have made useful statements. He, however, refused to go into the revelations made or other claims made by the suspects. "When we are through, the Inspector-General of Police will brief you," he stated.

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