Businessman narrates an encounter with locals who threatened him with juju for renting a bakery and evicting the previous employees in Abule-Egba, Lagos.
According to a Twitter person recognized as @pyjama_ceo, he acquired a number of threats over the enterprise he thought was a good suggestion to have in Abule-Egba apart from on Lagos Island after following the recommendation of his driver.
A yr after abandoning the area over a collection of issues, he acquired a name from the police on an incident that occurred on the property that required his pressing consideration.
Read the narration under …
“One day received a call from the police that I should come to Abule-Egba police station. That something happened at my bakery. A bakery I had shut down for bout a year. So I called my former driver who “made” me hire the bakery there in the primary.
He jogs my memory of after we had arrived on the bakery one time to search out “sacrifice” exterior the bakery door and I instructed him to throw it away? I recalled. So backstory- I made a decision to enter bakery enterprise in Lagos island and was trying for a bakery to hire.
My driver satisfied me to go to Abule-Egba as a result of it was “cheaper” and he might assist me handle it cos he lived there. I stupidly agreed. I rented an previous bakery there, renovated it and evicted the bakers that used the previous bakery. One of them, a one eyed man….
Told me that I’d remorse my motion. One day earlier than the opening I arrived to search out dry corn, bloody feathers and different stuff exterior the entrance door. My driver tried to forestall me from getting into. I instructed him to throw all the things away- no be me Benin boy dem go use sacrifice chase comot
Anyways, I began operating the bakery. Problems after issues. Not due to any rattling sacrifice however as a result of a. I had no enterprise being in the enterprise. B. I all the time preach excel sheet proper? I hadn’t began training what I preached. C. My driver was a nuisance. So I closed it
Fast ahead to virtually a yr later I obtain that decision from the Police. Called my driver and requested what he knew concerning the bakery. He mentioned effectively since I had paid the hire for two years and I deserted the place he saved operating it… however “ehn three people had died in the compound.”
“And So the tenants of the compound went to babalawo to find out why”. Babalawo instructed them that the juju they set for me was being starved as a result of I deserted the place. That because the juju couldn’t eat my progress it was consuming the individuals round there”.
He now added that the babalawo has requested for me however he was afraid to name me… so the compound individuals went to the police to make them name me so I can go to the babalawo to inform me what to do. I mentioned to inform me whaaat??? “
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