SOKA-NIZATION: RITUALISTS FAST AND EVIL WAY TO GET
WEALTHY AND FAMOUS.
If you are familiar with trends in Nigeria I bet it
will be almost impossible for anyone to have missed the popular event about a
RITUALIST den called SOKA in Ibadan, Oyo State south west of Nigeria. It is
also not uncommon to hear amongst the street guys/girls, market women,
transporters, news media, the resonating sound of SOKA. It was an incident that
will forever remain in the archive of Ibadan and Nigeria in parenthesis. Just 2
months back, Nigerians were awoken with the story of an abandoned yard which is
being used as a slaughter slab and guillotine yard by the men of the
underworld, a mammoth crowd of youths had stormed the abandoned property and
discovered what was to be the subject of discourse in both the national and
international media. Men and women, young and old, sane and insane, living and
dead, malnourished and marooned in a confinement not even fit for a condemned
criminal were astonishingly found in this abandoned compound, they were all
victims of kidnap for ritual purpose.
Consequent upon the discovery at Soka in Ibadan,
other ritual dens in different forms were discovered here and there, a
ritualist den was discovered by a fly-over bridge at ewekoro LGA on Abeokuta
expressway, another baby factory was discovered at Adigbe also in Abeokuta, same
goes for a baby factory at Akute in Ifo LGA of Ogun state, these baby factories
are sometimes the “BLACK MARKET” for ritualists who either has money to cough
out or the lily livered among them who dread the fear of the long arm of the
law as well as jungle justice in the event they got nabbed for kidnap, an
elderly woman selling local gin(paraga
and jedi) as a decoy was equally arrested at sango-ota for dealing in human
parts which subsequently she claimed they source their products from the
cemetery and upon a thorough search on her apartment, a human skull and other
human anatomical items were discovered, Just when we thought we had seen and
heard enough of this barbarism the news media is awashed with another rumour of
reverberating sound of SOKA again in Ado-Odo Ota LGA and Ifo LGA.
Just 2 weeks ago, there was a report in the news
media of a particular building in Ayetoro Itele Ota LGA where a boy hawking his
wares was quarantined by some people believed to be ritualist and taken inside
their house apparently to perpetrate their evil act, unknown to these men who
pretend they want to buy from this boy’s wares, another buyer was waiting
outside for the boy hawker, upon realizing the boy hawker had stayed too long
in the house which report says it’s a bungalow self compound, and in a bid to
test his curiosity and surely satisfied he saw the boy entering the compound,
the waiting buyer outside decided to knock on the gate of the compound and
could not get any response, he immediately alerted residents of the area who
promptly besieged the building and discovered it to be another SOKA of sort.
What a sinful world we live!
In addition, another unconfirmed story pop-up that
some school kids were also kidnapped in
an area called senukoro in lafenwa Ayetoro,Ado-Odo Ota LGA just last week, the
kids were said to have been discovered in an uncompleted apartment in the said
community. The kidnapped kids were said to have been hypnotized as they could
not mutter any word when rescued by the residents. In a bid to do a rendering
on the SOKA trend, I was dazed to also discover that just some few streets away
from my house another SOKA was unveiled on the 20th June 2014. It
strongly beats my imagination as to how men of the underworld easily perpetrate
this heinous crime notwithstanding the level of consciousness of the entire
population about their activities. I was on my way home from work on Friday
when we discovered there was a traffic snarl at Iju hill by Grail-land, I
initially thought it to be the usual go-slow mode or another tanker has fallen
into the ditch which is caving in as we welcome the rain downpour, or at most
the notorious danfo drivers and some private educated illiterates car owners
had forgotten to take their psychotic pills and decided to face the oncoming
vehicles from Ajuwon axis thereby resulting in avoidable accidents as we
witness on daily basis, alas! It was none of these assumptions the traffic was
caused by a detachment of police team and ambulances who were on their way from
the SOKA joint to retrieve the bodies of murder victims. I didn’t really get
the message at that particular moment until I got to the last bus-stop in
Ajuwon where I decided to pick a grocery and I could see people echoing the
epic tale of what happened in a hush-hush tone. Since I don’t really fancy the
OLOFOFO style of gathering info, I decided to move on, but setting out on
Saturday morning I was duly informed by an okada man that a particular area
called pipeline in Ajuwon, Ifo LGA has produced another SOKA. He told me there
was still a mammoth crowd trying to catch a glimpse and heavy presence of
security operatives at the point where the dead bodies of the victims were
discovered. At that point, I began to
ponder on the meaning of life and wonder if some people really believe in the
hereafter, well your guess is as good as mine, the desperation for affluence
and get money rich syndrome has eroded the values we place on our fellow being.
If the gods/deities have decided not to accept goats, pigeons, cows, white
garments, palm-oil, bitter kola, kola nuts, salt and pepper anymore, why can’t
the gods/deities ask for Ferrari, private jets, a mansion, gold/silver, and all
other luxury of life instead of human parts and bloods? Even God Almighty does
not ask for our blood for atonement or At-Thawba. It’s really high time we
define how to restructure our security apparatus and establish intelligence
resource centers across every community in Nigeria.
As a final point, if these ugly occurrences are not
nipped in the bud, we might start to witness daylight snatching of persons for
ritual purposes in the public glare and nobody would still not “GIVE A DAMN”
(apology to Mr. President for using that phrase without his permission).
‘Lekan Olanite
08034201291.
