Police Arrest Herbalist For Allegedly Killing Woman In Kwara

Police Arrest Herbalist For Allegedly Killing Woman In Kwara

The Kwara state police command have arrested a Herbalist, Femi
Emmanuel, over the mysterious death of a mother of two, Tawakalitu
Mukaila, who had come to his home in Ila-Odo-owa, in Oke-Ero local
government area of the state to seek for spiritual help.

According to the police, Twakalitu, a trader and resident of Ago-Oru
area of Omu-Aran, was accosted by Emmanuel while hawking rice and beans
inside Omu-Aran market few months ago. There Emmanuel told her she and
her family were under a spell and that they needed spiritual cleansing.
He narrated with exact precision some past negative incident in the
family of the deceased. He told her that her husband, Mukaila, was a
driver who hailed from Oke-ode in Kwara state and had been a victim of a
ghastly motor accident some four years ago which has rendered him
incapacitated making him resort to use of crutches.

Last Thursday March 21st, Emmanuel met with Tawakalitu inside the
same market and ordered her to follow him home. She left her goods and
followed him in company of her 17-year-old niece,Azeezat.

Speaking about her mysterious death, her husband Mukaila said

“She was the breadwinner of the family, trustworthy and very caring
even after my accident left me incapacitated. Her sudden death this way
remained a mystery to me. On that fateful day, few months ago Tawa told
me about what one Emmanuel, a spiritualist told her some things while
hawking inside Omu-Aran market and I told her to ignore such fake antics
from the said spiritualist.

“But after then my wife will always complain about the pressure from
the same Emmanuel and I cannot stop her from doing her legitimate
business which she has been using to feed us, more so I’m not that
fit. Not until Thursday March 21, that she disappeared with her niece,
Azeezat and we became worried and all efforts to locate her by a search
party proved abortive” he said

Narrating further Mukaila said it was on Sunday morning that Azeezat
suddenly appeared looking pale and exhausted and narrated to them what
transpired between the deceased and the spiritualist at Ila-Odo-owa.

“Azeezat told us that she and Tawakalitu slept in the house of the
spiritualist on Thursday and Friday night and that on Saturday morning
he gave Tawakalitu a concoction to drink with pap.

“She said after drinking the concoction Emmanuel gave her
(Tawakalitu) a bowl where she vomited some liquid portions which the
spiritualist took away. Azeezat said it was after vomiting that
Tawakalitu became very weak, exhausted and unconscious and died few
minutes later” he said

According to Mukaila, Azeezat claimed that after Tawakalitu died,
Emmanuel bundled her body inside a room, locked them together with a
warning that she too would die in the same manner if she dared narrate
what had happened to anybody.

“Azeezat told us that it was on Sunday morning, tired and
exhausted without food, that she escaped from the house of the
spiritualist leaving behind Tawakalitu’s dead body” he said

Mukaila narrated further that it was Emmanuel; sensing
danger after Azeezat had escaped, who now reported the death
of Tawakalitu to the palace of the Olota of Odo-Owa, Oba Josuha Adimula,
who in turn briefed the Olomu of Omu-Aran, Oba Abduraheem Adeoti. He
said it was after due consultation between the two monarchs and judging
from the enormity of the case at hand that the case was reported to
Iloffa police command in Oke-Ero Local Government Area and Emmanuel was
promptly arrested.