An Alfa, identified as Ilia su Azeez, paraded alongside suspected
robbers, cultists and impersonators, has revealed that he defrauded a
female doctor who came to him for what he described as money ritual.
He
alleged that the doctor (names withheld) asked him to do money ritual
for her. ‘’ I told her that I don’t do money ritual. I was arrested
because she said I collected money from her. She said I collected N6
million but I only collected N4 million from her.’’ Sunday Vanguard
gathered that, on September, 30, 2015, at about 12:30pm, the doctor, a
staff member of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos,
petitioned the police to allege that unknown persons hypnotized and
swindled her of N6.2 million under the pretext of assisting her to heal
an ailment.
The case was referred to detectives who swung into
action and arrested Azeez and Yusuf Adetunji, who allegedly confessed to
the crime, claiming they used the money they collected from the woman
to purchase jewellery and other household items. They mentioned other
members of their group to include Alhaji Rasak, aka Rosko, Akeem Azeez
and Abore.
Suspect’s confession
32-year-old Azeez
narrated, “I am married with three children. I am from Oyo State. There
is a lady that wanted to do money ritual, she came to me and said she
wanted me to help her do money ritual. I told her that I don’t do money
ritual. She now said I collected money from her. That was why I was
arrested. She said I collected N6million but I only collected N4million
from her. I wasn’t the only one who collected the money; we were two
that shared the money. I got only N300,000. The police arrested my
younger brother and I while the others escaped. I have made about three
people with mental illness well.
“The first day I met her, she
told me she wanted a child and then I started doing prayer for her. I
got involved with her because she was barren and needed a child. Later,
she said she wanted me to do money ritual for her. She came to me
for assistance before Ileya. I told her that I don’t do money ritual. I
am an Alfa. I specialise in helping people to get pregnant. I have been
doing this for the past two years. Eventually, some other person helped
her to do the money ritual. I wasn’t the one that did it.”
Alfa’s
younger brother, Yussuf Adetunji, 30, also arrested, told Sunday
Vanguard: ‘’ I am a tailor. I don’t know anything about this case. I was
arrested because they found the pictures of my brother on my phone.
They used my brother to trace me. Some people called me that they were
from MTN, and that I had won a package. When I met them, they took my
phone and when they saw Azee’s pictures on the phone, they asked me to
call him. I called him and he came to my shop where he was arrested. I
don’t know anything about the fraud.’’