apprehension in Ihiala town, Anambra as a N500million mansion belonging to a
late billionaire is abandoned over his connection with the dreaded Okija
shrine.
A visit to the village called Uzoakwa in Ihiala
town, the home of the late billionaire business mogul, who was known as Chief
Victor Okafor aka ‘King of Money’ (EZEGO), showed how his N500m mansion had
been deserted after his demise.
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It was still a surprise to many in the community that despite
the expensive properties and valuables inside the abandoned mansion, robbers
have not burgled the place to steal any of them because of the late Okafor’s
rumoured issue with the dreaded Okija Shrine which they claimed caused his
death.
According to some of the indigenes, there was a mystery behind the
abandoned mansion comprising many houses with expensive valuables kept inside
which made robbers not to vandalise or tamper with those items.
There
were even no security in place as the members of the immediate family including
his wife and children have not returned to the mansion since he died some years
ago. Exotic properties inside the mansion such golden chairs and tables,
expensive fabrics, rugs, electronics, electrical appliances, abandoned vehicles
and others worth millions of naira were said to have remained intact because
robbers were avoiding the place.
PM Express tried to find out why it was
so despite the fact that robbers would have made a fortune from there going by
the reported high rate of crime in the area especially in the immediate
community. Some of the residents explained that any robber who broke into the
mansion may be in serious danger over the story that the Late Okafor had issue
with the dreaded Okija shrine.
It was gathered then that Okafor might
have attracted the anger of the deity and died due to his failure to come to the
shrine to defend himself over a report by one of his kinsmen who reportedly
dragged him to the shrine over business transaction which he alleged that Okafor
had cheated him.
It could not be verified whether the shrine killed
Okafor or not, despite the fact that some believed it happened. However, it was
gathered that if any person died as a result of any issue or altercation with
the deity in Igbo land such like the Okija shrine, automatically all the
properties belonged to that shrine unless certain rituals were
performed.
The late Okafor also known as ‘Udu Bunch’ died in December
1999 after he had an accident around Okija town, few kilometers to his village
when he was returning for Christmas and to celebrate his birthday. His death
came with controversies which led to the collapse of his immediate family and
business empire. His wife, Nkechi reportedly abandoned the family and
remarried.
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