The story am about to tell is a true life story of a close kingsman of mine in Anambra State of the south eastern part of Nigeria.
I write this story as both a warning and as an admonishment to our youngmen and women today, to be careful of the love of money and desperation in their life struggles.
A kingsman of mine who is popularly as Idiagbo or Chipolo polo but he real name was Obidinka, he grew up in Uga, Aguata local government of Anambra state, when he became an adult, life struggles wasn't easy for him at all, as he passed through serious hardship.
Idiagbon as my Kinsman is popular called has onced served a popular Reverend father in the Southeastern part of Nigeria known as Father Edeh, the owner of Madonna university, he worked in his poultry farm, but his financial life didn't improve as a poultry keeper.
Things went from bad to worst for my dear Kinsman to the point of his properties being ejected from where he was living due to his inability to pay his house rent, this was a monumental disgrace and a heart breaking experience.
The incident of his properties being ejected from where he was living for inability to pay his rent, seems to have ignited the weird determination to make money either by all means either by hook or crook. In one of the Christmas holiday, while my father talked with him, he said to him, that if this hardship continues with him again, that if money ritualist asks him to bring eight heads for money rituals, that he will give them sixteen, actually my father taught he was joking, and he jokingly said to him, then you will have to give the head of your wife and children, and they all laughed, mind you that mr Obidinka was not yet married.
It wasn't long the following year, One day at the market, Obidinka's mother suddenly fell at a small market place in his village Uga, she was sweating profusely, seeming to be half alive and half dead, not too long from that time she died.
During the burial of Obidinka's mother, he came back to the village but did not go close to the mother's grave, he was in a separate house having fun and taking photos with his girl friends. It wasn't long after his mothers burial, Idiagbon began to live in riches in Port Harcourt were he lived, he got government contracts and connections.
One of the days he came back to the village and chained his mother's grave with a mystic chain and redecorated his mother's grave, and when he was asked why he did that, he said that his money appeared to him in a dream and queried him why he allowed his grave to be undecorated and dirty, this became a clue that Obidinka might have a hand in his mother's death.
Obidinka in the Bid to secure his wealth and get more powers, went deep into fetish acts, he went to several shrines for power. One of the days, after calling his brother in port Harcourt to ask him where he was at the moment, it wasn't long his brother was shot dead by Assassins, a cousin of his suspected he had something to do with the death of his brother, but since there was no proof, the matter died down.
As it said that everything that begining has an end, towards the end of the period he was given to enjoy his money and die was getting closer, Mr Obidinka seemed to begin to understand that life was of more value than money, he attempted diverse rituals for long life, to no avail, his attempt to use the life of some other close family members and relatives to renew his own life became futile.
When he became increasingly conspicuous to him that he was going to die, he asked one of his servants to take him to the mortuary to how dead people look like, when he was taken there, he saw and was sorrowful. He also attempted to meet a pastor, but couldn't meet.
At his death bed, he cried and confessed having killed his Mother and his brother, and confessed a lot of atrocities he committed in his quest for money, his dying moment was sorrowful.
Even after his death, deals he had with diverse shrines with includes Ogoni shrines still continued to haunt his family and even led to the death of his elder brother, mind you, Obidinka died unmarried, though he had a son from one of his concubines, who stood in as his son on his burial day.