| Imam slept with me
during Ramadan, woman alleges
By Christopher Oji & Juliana Francis
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
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A housewife in Lagos has learnt a bitter lesson from an Imam,
whom she contacted to help win back her husband’s love.
Rather than win back the lost love, the priest gave the woman,
simply identified as Ronke, what her hubby had been denying
her-hot, passionate romp, though she said she was placed
under a spell.
Described as the Imam of a mosque in the Agbado area, on the
outskirts of Lagos, the priest, who gave his name as Alhaji
Sharafadeen Falagbo said he had only handled the housewife
professionally.
But, Ronke who has taken her case to the police disagreed,
saying: " It’s a lie. He slept with me. He said
if I wanted to keep my husband for good, that he would have
to make 16 incisions on my private part, and that once my
husband slept with me, he would never look at other women
again.
"Then he gave me a concoction to drink. As soon as I
took it, I became weak and that was when he raped me."
The confrontation between Alhaji Falagbo and Ronke was in
the presence of the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge
of Area " G" command, Ogba, Mr. Sam Ojehunme, who
had recovered three coffins, red clothes, a knife and wooden
images from the Imam’s house.
Trying to prove to the police that the Imam actually slept
with her during the just concluded Ramadan period, Ronke said:
" I can describe his manhood. He has a very small, but
very strong penis. After giving me 16 incisions on my private
part, he assured me that my runaway husband would return after
three days but I am yet to see the man. Yet he collected from
me N5,000, one hen and abused my womanhood."
Claiming that the man might have planned to use her for rituals,
Ronke said: "He placed a charm in my mouth and my body
has been drying up ever since. I feel so hot inside. I can’t
eat. I have taken up to seven sachets of water today."
Putting up a defence, Alhaji Falagbo said, "I’m
an Alfa. I own a central mosque at Suberu Oje area of Agbado.
I’m an Imam. The woman came to me for assistance and
I gave her some charms because I also act as a native doctor.
I assured her that her husband would surely come back."
The Imam claimed he told the woman to make the incision herself
on the day her husband would come, home and to ensure she
makes love with her husband that day. He also said there were
other things he instructed her to do, like carrying sacrifice
to the path where three roads meet.
He said, "If she applied it like I advised, the husband
will no longer run away again and the man will remain faithful
to her till death do them part. But, just because she stayed
ten days without the husband coming home, she reported to
the police that I raped her and used her for ritual."
The argument took another dimension, when the Imam revealed
that the woman had patronised him before. Ronke fired back,
saying, "that was in the year 2002, when I came to inquire
from your shrine whether my newly rented shop would be favourable
or not."
She stressed that it was a friend that introduced her to the
Imam.
After looking at the facts of the case, Ojehunme described
the Imam as a fraudster, who was using fetish things recovered
from him to deceive his unsuspecting victims. He added that
there was no place in the Holy Koran, where it was written
that an Islamic preacher should use fetish objects.
The Imam told Ojehunme that he was using the coffin found
with him for protection, while Ronke during the interrogation
said she could have taken her husband’s case to the
Celestial Church of Christ, but had the fear that the prophets
would tell her husband, since that is where the family worships.
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