By Jude Atupulazi
In Anambra State today, something is happening. It is turning into a case of ”No longer at ease” for the bad boys, apologies to Chinua Achebe who gave this title to one of his books. These boys have succeeded in spoiling our youths with their false philosophy which emphasizes easy life without toil, and, worse still, when they make it and live in easy street, they disturb everybody with their noise, just as their dibias or native doctors do.
It wasn’t long we were being disturbed by the noise being made by one of them called Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki (the egg that crushed a palm kernel). He claims to be a native doctor who makes young people rich through what he called his Oke Ite (pots that are supposed to contain stuff that can make the owner rich overnight).
Since this Oke Ite of a thing came into popular conversation, young men, many of them, have been falling over themselves to own one and become rich, often with conditions that invariably lead to their early death.
Their conditions are as funny as they are devilish. Some are told not to buy clothes unless they want to lose their powers and losing such powers could mean going mad or dying. Thus, such people, despite their wealth, will never buy their own clothes but will be begging friends for clothes. How bizarre!
Others are told to always go to toilet in the bush or lose their powers. Thus, such people may not board planes going outside the country as they can’t relieve themselves if the need arises. Funny but serious.
Yet others are told not to sleep at night. These ones resort to going night clubbing and returning in the morning to sleep while others are working. But these are only small ones.
Many others are told to bring human parts and this is why many people are going missing today. You can now see why these so-called native doctors are even more diabolic than those they make charms for. They are the same people that make charms for criminals in order to evade detection or be immune to bullets. Yet, they are always felled by police and army bullets. So who is fooling who?
In case you do not know what this Oke Ite phenomenon is all about, just read what I have posted below written by one who obviously, has much knowledge about it.
OKEITE (The Great Pot)
This is what is killing our young men today in Igbo Land. Okeite! If you see any yahoo boy spending money lavishly, this is what he’s into. Ordinary yahoo no longer pays. To get big pay, they now go into this. The least an experienced native doctor can charge a person to prepare this charm is N1.5 million. Some native doctors charge as high as N3 million. Some don’t charge; what they do is to collect percentage of whatever you realize from time to time. Traders also do this charm.
This charm is what’s called money ritual (ogwu ego). The native doctor prepares it with bats, other dangerous species of birds, bitter herbs, roots and barks of spiritual trees like the (ogilisi). The main ingredients are dog’s spare parts and human spare parts. They work directly with mortuary attendants.
They need mostly parts of those who died through road accidents and others who died at an unripe age. They also go for the parts of women who had no children. Any native doctor who knows how to prepare this must be an occult native doctor, without being one, the vibration will sweep the native doctor within a period. The kickback is usually harsh on the native doctors.
In this category of charm is the powerful ‘Ibobo isi atu’. Ibobo is hung on the wall. Celebrities do it. Contractors, drug people, security heads who want to be feared, do it. They do it to command respect and be feared and get attracted to important people’s admiration. It’s a very dangerous charm.
It’s almost more dangerous and costly than Okeite. Anybody who has Ibobo is feared for no reason. People listen where they talk. As a contractor, your own bidding is first considered. It carries force of attraction. The glory of a person who has it holds people down.
Another one is Udu Ako Mmili (a calabash that never lacks water). It’s more like Okeite. It takes the same process to prepare. Another one under this category is Oke Awele. Traders, transporters and farmers do this mostly. Another one is what is called Aro Agba Aka (a year will never go by without making a person wealthy). It’s a new discovery under this category and seems to be the deadliest.
These are some of the things you tap as grace in the lives of some people you think are rich. Funny enough is that no stupendously rich person does any of these. What they afford those doing them are Benz, houses and money to spend on women and spray at events. That’s all. Nobody who does any of these stupid things is ever counted among wealthy men and women in society.
The side effects are bigger than what they offer. You continue losing family members from time to time. They seize some people’s ability to give birth. Some may give birth, but the baby will die on delivery. Sometimes, the mother follows it. They destroy children. Some don’t live more than five years. But the money will be coming. On dying, the properties collapse as they came.
Apart from the lethal effects, you will not have peace of mind while alive. You will not assist anyone with the money. The often you bring things into the pot, the more the money flows. It booms more when the handkerchief used in cleaning a woman’s private part after sex is put in the pot. That’s when you see some young girls go mad or find it hard to give birth. The pot boils like never before. Some bring charred human parts, moreover those of babies and young girls whose blood is still fresh.
The truth is that the native doctor doesn’t know the people the charms will take as sacrifice. The charms pick randomly. Sometimes, a family member or close friends can die without you knowing they died at your instance. The charms select and don’t tell the clients when and who they are collecting.
This is why a rich person in a family suspected to be behind another’s death can come out boldly and swear with their lives and nothing harms them. And once the pot stops frothing, the time for the person to go has come. That’s when you find some young boys die of road accident or go mad or die in mysterious ways.
So, when you are tapping from a person’s grace just because he bought a new vehicle or built a new house, know it that you might be tapping from a strange force. No yahoo boy who has voluminous money nowadays gets it outside this means. Ordinary Yahoo stopped paying some five years ago. It’s good that you know all these, so that no one pushes you into regrettable living. So that you don’t envy people you are better than. So that you don’t think you are not working hard.
Learn. Research. Ask questions. Don’t be jealous. Don’t envy. Don’t be disturbed by the doings (sic) of some people who don’t have known sources of income.
Courtesy of Enugu State Media
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I believe that having read the above, you will better appreciate or understand what the Oke Ite phenomenon means and what those behind it and other means of making money go through. Perhaps the more people know about this, the better they can shun its allures and concentrate on working hard legitimately.
But society has become so warped that even parents push their children into being desperate to make money by chiding them for not being like their peers who are rich, even when they do not know the sources of wealth of those people. Sometimes parents worship their children who have made money from unknown sources and denigrate others who don’t have money, thus pushing such children to go look for money by any means possible.
As I wrote earlier in the last edition, during festive periods such as Christmas and New Yam Festivals, all you hear is how ”Chibuike has made it”, how ”Chi Boy has hit it big”. Even when it is known that they made such money without having any visible means of livelihood, they are adulated, given chieftaincy titles and allowed to marry from decent families who need money.
A video emerged within the week of some of the boys behind the killing of the late Anambra House of Assembly member, Hon Justice Azuka, spraying money on their boss at a function. The people there must have been clapping for them. Ask the boys what they do and they tell you they are into Yahoo business. The Yahoo business is now a convenient euphemism for making money from unknown sources and many are buying into it.
Also the news within the week was how the Anambra State Government invited Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki to explain how he does his ministration. Some people are complaining about human rights abuse and about stopping others from practicing their religion. But we all know what these people are doing is not how any religion is practiced. This is diabolical religion. We also know they have been responsible for leading our young men astray.
So, I ask, if we know all this, why shout about human rights? Why shout when those people are manipulating youths to kill others for money? Soludo has declared war on criminals and their sponsors, both spiritual and temporal.
Anyone invited should come and explain how they do their stuff and face the music if found guilty. It is time we acted against these pernicious elements to save society or what is left of it. My only advice is not to turn this war into one of victimisation. Proper checks must be done before anyone goes in for it.
But the war must be prosecuted to its logical end. The nonsense has gone on long enough and the bad elements must be swept off. Government is fighting them under the code name of Udo Ga Achi. For me, the name is too soft. Let it be Operation Kpochapu!
