Aliyu
Mutairu,
the
shrine
operator
apprehended
by the
police 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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