Published On: Tue, Feb 24th, 2015

How Two Of My Children Flee From Nigeria To Avoid Wrath Of Ancestral Worshipers-Widow

Utomudo Victor Edoja


LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A widow, Linda Utomudo has narrated how her two children, Utomudo Victor Edoja
and Utomudo Ogaga hunted by the Chief Priest of their community ran away from Nigeria to other countries in order to avoid ritual killing.

She said their reason for fleeing from Nigeria is to avoid being killed because they refused to inherit their father’s traditional duty of worshiping ancestral gods..
The widow in a message to our correspondent disclosed, “My name is Linda Utomudo. My late husband is an ancestral worshipper who worships (olokun. known as the God of the sea) and my eldest son was suppose to take over from him to become the new chief priest since my husband died on 21st September 2014. But because my children are Christians, he refused taking over.

Shrine


“When my husband died because my eldest son refused taking over, some of the ancestral worshippers decided that they will kill him to appease the ancestors because it is a taboo to reject the position. They came to our house with matchets and other dangerous items to use on him.
“When I was trying to plead with them, I was pushed and I broke one of my leg. My son ran away through the bush that faithful day to his aunty’s place in Kogi state where he stayed for some time. Thus, when information got to him through a friend on the 28th of November 2014* that they know where he is residing in Kogi State and that they are coming after him, he ran for his life .
She explained that even her youngest son, Utomudo Ogaga equally ran from Nigeria to Ghana because they had to come for him since they could not get hold of his elder brother.
“When I reported to the police, they said I should go and settle with my kinsmen because it’s traditional issues.
“Up till today, February 24th 2015 as I am making this complaint, I am yet to know the where about of my senior son,” She complained.

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