How wicked can the heart of a man be to close his ears to the cries of a
defenseless woman and a 10 year old girl and go ahead to bury them
alive? that is what this native doctor, Olatunji Azeez did to a retired
Custom Officer, Angela Kerry and her daughter, Obiagulum.
This is a clear case of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. That
is the only way anyone can describe the act of an herbalist based in the
Ire Akari Crescent, Ajuwon Akute, Ogun State, Alhaji Olatunji Azeez,
who buried a retired Custom Officer, Mrs. Angela Kerry, and her adopted
daughter, 10-years-old Obiagulum, alive so that he could keep the money
he had swindled from her.
According to
Punch Newspaper,
the Lagos State Police Command paraded the 64-years-old Azeez, who is
from Oyo State and is married to three wives and five children, as he
confessed to the heinous crime.
This is the reason the Babalawo gave for murdering the woman and her daughter:
I
have been a trado-medical doctor for about 30 years, but I knew Angela
over five years ago. She initially came to me for protection from family
attacks.
One of her
friends called Lizzy introduced her to me. The relationship began to
grow, and she kept patronising me for one thing or the other.
Then,
about three years ago, she mentioned her barrenness problem, adding
that the daughter that was with her was adopted. I was shocked.
But
when she told me her age, I told her it was impossible to make her
pregnant. But she insisted that prophets in the churches she went had
assured her she would get pregnant.
I
did the normal concoction for her, but it didn’t work because of her
age. But I collected the money (N9 million) because I knew if I did not,
she would go to where they would collect it.
After
some months without result, she came to my place to complain. She then
demanded a refund, but I told her that I could not repay it. She then
began to threaten me. Within a month, I tried to repay N2.5m. On that
fateful week, she came back for the remaining N6.5m.
It
was Saturday, May 17. She came with her daughter and insisted that she
wanted her balance. She said as a retired customs officer, she could
kill me if I didn’t pay back the money.
Then
I thought, I must kill this woman before she killed me. The hole at the
back of my house was not built for killing. It was dug for drainage
during rainfall. I placed a mat and a white cloth on the pit and called
her to follow me.
After
we talked, we moved with her daughter to the place. I said she should
kneel down on the mat with her daughter. She did so and fell into the
pit with her daughter. The operation was successful because no member of
my family was around in the house.
I
then began to cover the pit up with sand. I poured in roughly 50
buckets of sand. The following day, I got two bricklayers to cement the
portion. But I had first taken out the belongings she brought.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko,
stated that the police had concluded their investigations on the case,
adding that the native doctor was going to be charged to court for
murder.
The woman and her daughter were reported missing on May 10 at the Oko Oba Police Division by the family.
Azeez
was eventually arrested through a tracking device installed on the
victim’s Toyota Camry. Azeez, an herbalist, had hypnotized the woman for
a long time.
He had
taken over N200 million from her both in cash and property. We
discovered he cleverly constructed a well in his house, lured the woman
with her daughter into the room, and buried them alive.
We
were able to recover the decomposed bodies of the victims from the
well. We have finished our investigations, and he will be charged to
court for murder. We will leave the rest to be decided by the court.
