{UAH} Lira officials burn witch doctor’s shrine
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Thursday September 20 2018
Lira officials burn witch doctor's shrine
Destroyed. Residents burn items recovered from the witch doctor's shrine established inside a rented house in Lira Town on Tuesday. PHOTO BY PATRICK EBONG
LIRA. When a witch doctor paid for an advert to be aired on some radio stations in Lira promising to find lovers for desperate single women, several of them flocked his shrine.
Little did he know that his shrine would be set ablaze.
The witch doctor only identified as "Dr" Sebbi purported he could invoke spiritual powers to find lovers for the women as well as bring back their long lost love within 48 hours.
Raid on shrine
As women queued to partake of the 'miracle', the local leadership of Ojwina Division in Lira Municipality was on Tuesday afternoon alerted about the announcement they believed to be misleading.
The local leadership then swung into action and set ablaze the shrine.
The area LC3 chairman, Mr Emmanuel Ebong Opeto, confirmed to this newspaper yesterday that he supervised the burning of the shrine.
Mr Patrick Ojok, the LC1 chairman of Wigweng Village in Barogole Parish, where the witch doctor was operating, said so many women had been visiting the shrine to look for lovers.
The witch doctor would allegedly subject them to smoking herbs in pipes as they called out their husbands' names purportedly to bring back their lost love, he said.
"We became concerned after seeing so many women frequenting the place and we took time to find out what they go there to do. After realising that they go to consult a witch doctor, we had to deploy our spies to investigate the matter before storming the place today (Tuesday)," Mr Ojok said.
"Dr" Sebbi had rented a dilapidated single room at Wigweng Village where he had set up his shrine.
"By the time I went with my team to arrest the witch doctor, we found him with three clients who had gone to recover their stolen phones and at the shrine, we also found a huge bone put in a container and some women were being made to drink dirty water from that container," the area LC1 chairman added.
The witch doctor claimed he uses Rhino bone for solving different problems that affect women.
The LC2 chairman of Barogole Parish, Mr Oscar Ongom, blamed landlords for allowing their houses to be rented by the people he termed as criminals.
He warned that they would start arresting landlords for accommodating wrong elements in the community.
The Ojwina LC3 councillor, Mr Bosco Ongom Goi, said witch doctors had started operating in the area yet witchcraft practices were banned in Ojwina in 2006.
Mr Opeto cautioned women against relying on the services of witch doctors.
"You can only win your lovers' heart through giving your men good sex and preparing for them good meals, and the way you conduct yourself towards your husband also matters a lot," Mr Ebong said.
Mr Nelson Anyii, an elder, said Barogole is infested with all sorts of wrong people ranging from criminals to prostitutes.
He called on local leaders to weed out such wrong elements from Ojwina Division.
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