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A 32-year-old woman, Mrs. Esther Asuquo, whose estranged husband
allegedly paid N1.8m as dowry for her hand in marriage and invoked a
protectorate of millipedes on her residence in Ekpene Ikot Effio Anang,
Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Cross River State, August 12, after a
disagreement between them has retreated to the house of another native
doctor in the community, and not the sanctuary of God, Vanguard reports.
Speaking to Niger Delta Voice, Mrs. Asuquo said she was forced run
away from her house after several prophecies indicated that the powers
invoked in her house would be active for some time. She has been forced
to take refuge in a native doctior's house.
The people of Ekpene Ikot Effio Enang have practically made up
their minds to banish the alienated husband, a non-indigene, who hired a
native doctor from another land to invoke the charm, while the militant
group, which he first took the matter to, was livid with him.
The man reportedly had issues with the wife, who ran for her dear
life, but instead of amicably settling the cause of the disagreement,
the man reported her to a militant group, demanded a sum of N1.8 million
he spent on her dowry and erected a structure. The militant groups
ruled against him, not satisfied, he contracted a native doctor to
arm-twist her by invoking millipedes.
It was revealed that the woman has decided to stay with a native doctor to save her from the invoked charm.
“She is not with any church, she is now living with one native
doctor somewhere in this community, if you came a bit early, you would
have met her, she left just about 10 minutes before you came in. But we
do not blame her because no one with a sane mind will stay in that kind
of place if that juju is not neutralized,” one of the sources asserted.
He added: “We have also seen somebody she brought to come and
do some things here, and we know that they are not church people, that
person is not pastor, she lives in one of the thatch houses in the
compound of the native doctor somewhere in the community"
However, an Assemblies of God, Pastor, Rev Saviour Linus, who lives
in one her property, said the lady gave them the house to live for free
and that, indeed, he got a revelation when the incident happened and
that Mbiam (charm) invoked in her house was powerless. The Rev said he
is not afraid of any charm.
“Mrs. Asuquo gave us this place for free to live when we got
here .When the incident happened God opened my eyes and I saw things, He
reassured me that as long as I am serving Him, His presence will be
with me always and that no other altar can hold sway in that
environment.
“God reminded me of my experience while I was serving at Itono
in Biase local government area, where they also brought something
similar, including crabs and centipedes, which were even more potent
than the colony of millipede, He reminded me that He (God) had given us
victory. He reassured me that every power associated with that charm
had already been broken because of His presence in the place,” he said.
According to Rev Linus, “I had called her to tell her about my
revelations but because of fear, which is an instrument and a means the
devil uses to torment his victims, she left her house, there is no way
we can be in this vicinity and that God will allow the devil to take
preeminence here, it is just impossible.”
He further asserted: “But you must first believe that He is, so
she should come back to her home, the charm is powerless, light can
never overcome darkness , I have seen worse things where people send
‘Igo’ and ‘Eguebe’ deities, so the occurrence it is not new.”
Acting village head, who is also the youth leader of Ekpene Ikot
Effio Enang, Mr. Edem Edet, said it would be foolish on the part of the
community to allow the estranged husband to remain in the community or
build houses on the land given to him by the people because they have
seen what he is capable of doing.
“We have seen the kind of an he is, we now know that he is not
supposed to live among us because he has questionable character, this
kind of man can poison people where they gather to relax or drink, he is
even capable of killing to possess what belongs to another man. For
this reason and other things that I would not like to go into, he can no
longer live with us.
“We do not sell land to people in this community, we give it
our for free, but there are things you must buy so that the community
people will share, which is part of our tradition. We gave him a parcel
of land measuring 100×100 in size in 2015 and we know he has plans to
erect a structure there, but that can no longer happen because we are
returning all the items he bought back to him so that we can live in
peace.
“All the items should be around N140,000 or thereabout and our
tradition is to return those things back to him before asking him to
leave us and that decision will be taken in our next meeting because we
cannot take over the land without refunding those things,” he said.
He told NDV that he has always been skeptical about the man and
they never wanted to give him land, but because of the constant pleas by
their daughter, Mrs. Asuquo, that was why he was even considered and as
it stood, their fears have been confirmed beyond reasonable doubt.
The village head further revealed that the man had come to beg him, but later went ahead with his diabolic plan: “He
came to me few days ago to tell me what he wants, but from the way he
spoke, I think he still loves Esther, but it is too late because he took
it too far, even the militants went to the place and they are very
angry with what he did because the case was still before them, yet he
went behind to contract a native doctor.”
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