What exactly will make a man go from a salon to salon collecting people’s hair in exchange for money?
This is a question that only a
60-year-old man, Adewale Okunade, a landlord of a house on Segun
Olatunji Street, Ijoko, Ota, Ogun State, has its answer.
Okunade, who
hails from Oyo State,
narrowly escaped being lynched on Thursday when some people in the
neighbourhood pounced on him.
They alleged that the hair was being taken to an herbalist in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, who uses it to prepare charms for him.
Some people said they found Okunade’s behaviour bizarre, insisting that there was more to his action.
It was gathered that the man had been in
the business for some years but nemesis caught up with him on the
fateful day when his ‘business partner’, a bricklayer, gave him away.
An executive member of the Community
Development Association said Okunade allegedly confessed that he had
been buying human hair.
According to the CDA executive, the victim said he had been using the hair to cure himself of festering sores on his leg.
He said the suspect denied the hair was
meant for rituals, saying he used to take the hair to an herbalist to
prepare concoctions for his sores.
He said many traditional medicine
practitioners who were there when Okunade was apprehended, said human
hair could only be used for rituals not for curing sores.
Culled - Punch
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Hmmm! Human hair to cure Sore?.....Only in Naija.
Share your thoughts...thanks!
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