I was Under a Spell
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
A reproduced copy of Edem’s handwritten statement to the police
Name: S. Edem Station: Zone 5, Benin-City, Edo State
Age: Adult Nationality/Tribe: Nigerian/Ibibio
Address: 44, Psychiatric Road, Port Harcourt Religion: Christianity
Sex: Male
Sometime late last year 2007 one Mr. Matthew Sonoma Perekabowei, otherwise known as Ogah, was introduced to me by one Kakas Amgbari as a pastor. After a few prayers in house, he started extorting money from me with dangerous threats to my life, my family members and staff. I later discovered that this man is a hardened criminal with fetish practices and diabolical powers. The truth is that I was hypnotised by this man into believing anything he said. He employed dangerous threats as a weapon to continually extort huge amounts of money from me while putting me under his spell. By the time God rescued me from his spell, this criminal and his cohorts had drained me financially, emotionally and psychologically. I have equally come to realise that he stole my photograph and used it for his nefarious diabolical activities. It is imperative to state here that throughout the period of my dealing with this man, I was not in control of myself. Some of the threat messages he sent to me by text (SMS) read:
"If I were you I would have forgotten about the money I extorted from you and worry about your life. If you want to insist we promise you our next attempt to attack you will succeed. We tried entering your house first and 2nd time to hurt you."
"My EXC. the agreement between me and the spirit is now getting due because of disappointment. Am the one to take your spirit and kill you."
"My EXC. if the money will not be ready before the time expires then I shall be left without any option but to take any member of your family that is so dear or close to you because the only way to appease the spirit is by human blood."
This fraudster employed these threats and several others to extort money from me while under his spell. During my dealings with him he used the following GSM numbers – 08070600224 and 08087473417. Most of monies paid to him were paid through bank drafts into his Oceanic Bank International Plc account No 02317017700330. Later investigations have revealed that this account is actually a conduit to his fixed deposit account with First City Monument Bank PLC. This fraudster used the money extorted from me to acquire several movable and unmovable properties in various locations. Some of the property acquired by him include an Hotel complex at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State at a whopping sum of over N100 million. He has recently acquired a fleet of brand new state-of-the-art cars of different brands and models parked at his Bomadi town residence in Delta State. The total amount of money extorted from me is much. It was sometime in April 2008, that I came out of this spell and realised that I was dealing with a deadly fraudster. I must mention that Mr. Kakas Amgbari who introduced the fraudster to me had come to apologise to me and pleaded for forgiveness that he had no idea of Mr. Perekabowei’s dubious intentions in coming to me. The transactions on this fraud were made at Ughelli through payments made to Mr Ogah’s Oceanic Bank International PLC Account, Ughelli Branch in Delta State. The name of the suspect in the said account is Mathew Sonoma.
In addition to my former statement I wish to state as follows: The amount of money the fraudster collected from me through the hypnotic spell is about N800 million. The extortion spread over months and were always with death threats to my person and family members, friends and staff. It was later discovered that my picture he stole from my house, he took it to a shrine where he made all manners of spiritual conjurations and finally wrote R.I.P on that my picture to confirm that he had killed me. Most of the payments were made into his Oceanic Bank Account through Bank Drafts. I can recall that his extortion started about November 2007 and lasted till April 2008.
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