A self-acclaimed Islamic cleric, Asifu Ajinikirun (32), who was named by a fake medical doctor, Mrs Damilola Ojo,
as the one who collected N48.5million for a non-existing oil and gas
business, has denied being involved in any shady deal with the woman.
Ajinikirun, in whose house fetish items and several dry bones,
including one suspected to be the lower jaw of a human being, were
found, also disclosed that he combined his Islamic cleric job with that
of a native doctor because the latter was his forefathers’ mode of
worship.
The state Commissioner of Police had told Crime Reports that
Ajinikirun belonged to a syndicate of fraudsters and had relocated from
Itire, Lagos State to Ibadan. Part of his antics, Oyebade said, was the
use of a fake idol known as Osanyin which he cleverly crafted using
batteries.
His arrest, it was learnt, was a follow-up on the confession of the
fake doctor who told the police that it was Ajinikirun who introduced
oil and gas business to her; and that he had collected the sum of
N48.5million from her, made up of her own money and that of other
clients.
But Ajinikirun denied the allegations, saying that the only amount he
collected from Mrs Ojo was about N700,000 which she paid for the jobs
he did for her.
According to the suspect, “I am an Islamic cleric. I pray for clients
and do some jobs for them. The fetish items found with me were those
that I inherited from my forefathers. I combine tradition with religion.
I was surprised when I was arrested over Damilola’s claim that I
collected N48.5 million from her. It is true that I know her. Someone
took me to her to settle a matter between her and another Aafa.
“Along the line, she asked me to do some prayers concerning her
hospital and the chemist shop she had so that the businesses could get a
boost. She also said she was pregnant but that it was not being
detected by scan. She said she had been advised to seek help in the
traditional way.
“The only time I heard about the oil and gas business was October
2015 when she told me that the person from whom she collected N22
million was troubling her that she should take him to the people in
charge of the business.
“She also said that the people she was doing the business with had
said she should not bring him, so that he would not take her place in
the business. I knew she was lying because I didn’t understand how she
could have taken so much from someone for business without showing him
those using the money for the business.
“What she wanted me to do for her then was a charm that would make
the person not to ask for his money again. Meanwhile, I had been hinted
that she was fraudulent. I didn’t collect a kobo from for any oil and
gas business. But I collected up to N700,000 for the prayers and others
jobs I did for her.”
When asked about the fetish objects which were recovered in his
house, including idols popularly called Osanyin in Yoruba, Ajinikirun
replied: “Many people know me as an Aafa; I also know myself as one.
There is no idol among the objects. The Osanyin is an ordinary artwork
to deceive people. The small coffin was used to keep charmed soap. The
effigy is for authority while praying.”
Speaking on the human jaw bone that was found among other bones
recovered from him, Ajinikirun said he bought it along with other bones
from Benin Republic.
“I wanted to use it to prepare a fortune charm but it had been
long that I bought it. One can do the charm through different methods,”
he said.
When asked whether he was a native doctor or an Islamic cleric that
he claimed, the suspect said: “I am not a native doctor but it was the
foundation of my forefathers. We only acquired the knowledge of the
Qur’an through learning. My forefather’s name was Awojide.” When asked
again why he chose to add diabolic ways with his Islamic religion,
Ajinikirun’s answer was simply: “Olorun o tun wa se (God will remould
all of us).” He however said that he had never defrauded anyone but only
attended to the spiritual needs of those who came to him.
No comments:
Post a Comment