A
herbalist who calls himself King of Satan has divorced his 57 wives and
vowed not to marry again after accusing his children of allegedly
sleeping with some of his wives.
Chief Odo with one of his daughters
While speaking in an exclusive interview with the South East Voice
at his palatial home at Aji, Enugu Ezike in Igboeze North LGA of Enugu
State, a 70-year-old herbalist, Simon Odo Okoro, said he has divorced
his 57 wives after accusing some of his children of allegedly sleeping
with some of his wives.
Odo, also known variously as Onuwa, King Solomon of Africa or King
of Satan had altogether been married to 69 women but some of them had
earlier died.
The herbalist who married his 57th wife in November 2015 and vowed
not to marry again, having had a fair share of women in his life, broke
his vow not marry again by quickly re-marrying one of the youngest of
his divorced wives, an 18-year-old Chidinma, who pleaded with him to
marry her so that she could take care of him as an old man.
“The girl who lured me to marry her returned from the United
States. She told me to marry her so that she would take care of me as an
old man. She is from Enugu State. However, a month after the marriage
was consummated, she told me to sack the youngest one, Chidinma and I
became furious with her because that was not why I married her. I beat
her and she left,” he said.
While speaking on the allegation that some of his children (names
withheld) not only slept with some of his wives but planned to kill him,
Okoro said he would disown any of his sons involved in criminal
activities.
The herbalist
Onuwa who was armed with an Onward note book where named his wives
and over 200 children were listed according to their dates of birth said
that his first son, Emeka was born on December 15, 1969.
“I was born in 1947 on the day they had an eclipse of the sun
and the moon. There was darkness in the afternoon on the day I was born.
I was the only son of my parents. I was baptised as a Christian in the
Catholic Church and even became a mass servant under Rev Father Desmond
McGlade. I, however, became a herbalist because of circumstances beyond
my control.
"As I said, I was the only son of my parents but because some
of his relations wanted to take over his landed property, they poisoned
me. I contracted tuberculosis and had to be treated for years. At a
point, I was even unable to walk for about five years because I became
lame. I ran to Ondo State in the South West, where I trained to become a
herbalist at the age of 15, before returning to the village.
"I married 15 wives when my father was alive and the situation
prolonged his life. He died in 1992 at the ripe old age of over 90
years. My first son has seven children and four grandchildren. Any of my
children who chooses to become a Christian is free to do so, provided
he/she must become a Catholic. I don’t like the Pentecostal churches.”
On feeding of his large family, Onuwa said, “People think that I
feed many of them but this is not true. Most of my children are grown
up. The boys among them usually marry and go to their own houses just
like the girls who marry and follow their husbands to their places.
However, my wives cook food for the whole family in turns. For example,
if it is the turn of Ada or Omada to cook, she would invite five of her
colleagues to assist her in cooking. One woman cooks for everybody in
the house at a time but my other wives would always assist such a
person.”
Asked if any of his sons has taken after him as a herbalist, he said, “I
will not encourage them to do so. I don’t want my sons to take after me
because some of them will do bad things with my medicine. As a
herbalist, I have never killed anybody or thought of evil against
anybody but I do not trust that my children would be upright like me.
That is why I will not encourage them to inherit my medicine but I may
bequeath them to some of my younger children, not the old, greedy ones.”
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