A 21-yr-old who was believed to be kidnapped has spoken from hiding
saying he was not kidnapped and he was staying away from his parents
In a series of shocking
allegations that have left his parents heartbroken, a 21-year-old
undergraduate, Demilade Osholonge, who was initially reported as
kidnapped, has accused his father and mother of engaging in occultism
which he alleged was behind the many spiritual attacks he had been
experiencing since he was 17, Punch reports. Demilade spoke
with Punch in hiding, maintaining that he would never return home to his
father, Mr. Fatayi Osholonge, a lawyer and his mother, Olufunke, who is
an evangelist.Demilade went into a narration that sounded much like a
story out of a novel.He told our correspondent,
He narrated:
“It
started when I was 10 years old and I started to see a young boy with
blood coming out of his mouth.Sometimes, I saw the boy in a dream,
sometimes I saw him even when I was wide awake but I was always the only
one seeing him. I told my parents about it but they waved it off as
mere dreams.It continued till I was 17 and I started to bleed from the
mouth as well. The first time it happened, I just noticed blood coming
out of my mouth. I would wake up sometimes and blood would be coming out
of my mouth. Sometimes, I would be wide awake and notice the taste of
blood in my mouth.
Asked what step his
parents took when he told them, he alleged that they did not take him to
the hospital for a checkup even after seeing the blood. In the family
home at Ajah area of Lagos, Demilade alleged that he frequently
experienced spiritual attacks. He was asked to elaborate.
He continued:
“Sometimes,
I feel someone beating me while I sleep without actually seeing the
person. Sometimes, I would lie in bed and not be able to move my body at
all no matter how hard I try,”
He told our correspondent that he became so frustrated with the strange experiences and the fact that he never got help.
“As
the years went on, I started noticing that my parents were engaging in
occultism activities because they visit herbalists and strange
prophets,” he alleged.
When asked what
evidence he had of such activities, Demilade said they sometimes took
him along.Demilade also alleged that in 2014, his parents took him to
two Ifa priests in Ondo town in Ondo State, during
which incisions were made on his waist. He lifted his shirt and showed
the incisions on the left side of his waist. He said that the bleeding
from the mouth continued despite the visit to the priests.Our
correspondent asked whether Demilade’s other siblings in the house also
experienced anything similar to the claims he made in his allegation and
he explained that when he discussed it with his younger sisters, they
told him none of them experienced such things. How then did he arrive at
the conclusion that his parents were behind his “spiritual attacks?”
Demilade alleged that his suspicion became clearer to him when he ran
away from home.
He said:
“I
was a 200 level Mass Communication undergraduate at the Ajayi Crowther
University, Oyo, but I decided to drop out so that I could be out of
reach of my parents. After I fled from home, I told my step-brother
(Michael Ebun), who is my mother’s son from a previous marriage, about
my problem and he took me to the house of a prophetess, Mrs. Mercy
Oyebo. As soon as we got to the woman’s house, she prayed for me and I
vomited blood. I got deliverance and gave my life to Christ right away.
Since that day, I have not vomited blood. I have been a good Christian
since then.I stayed along with my step-brother in the woman’s house
between March and April 2015 for intense prayer sessions. We left after
the sessions and I have been living with a friend at Maryland since
then. But I realised my parents were behind my problems when my mother
started calling and cursing me over the phone. She said she would make
me run mad. There was a time she was reciting incantation when she
called me and I froze.”
Demilade declined to disclose where he currently resides.
“My parents are rich, they are using my destiny, that is why they want me back home desperately,” he said.
He
said life is hard for him currently because he no longer enjoyed
the affluence of his parents but maintained that he would rather suffer
physically than be turned into an imbecile. Asked about the motive
behind bringing his story to the public, Demilade alleged that his
parents got his step-brother (Ebun) arrested on charges of kidnapping.
“They
locked him up for three days for kidnapping me. He only tried to help
me. I have even spoken with the police on the phone that I was not
kidnapped, but they insisted that I should come over to Panti
(Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba), where the case has been
transferred to. If I went there, they would hand me over to my parents,” he said.
It
was learnt that Ebun has since been released on bail. But issues took a
different turn when Demilade’s parents were contacted. They maintained
they could only speak in the presence of investigators at the
DCI. During the encounter at the DCI, Mrs. Osholonge said she believed
her son was still holed up in the prophetess’ house and that she had
hypnotised him to the point that he was not thinking straight.
Demilade’s
mother gave an off-the-record detailed narration of what she believed
was the reason behind his son’s strange behaviour, but she insisted she
did not want this information published.
When
asked how she would respond to the allegations of occultism, spiritual
attack, visits to the herbalists, incantations and curses made by her
son, she said all she wanted was to have her son back.
It
was also learnt that indeed there was an open case of conspiracy and
kidnapping on Demilade’s issue, which the prophetess (Oyebo) is still
wanted for.A police officer who is familiar with the investigation said,
“We
have spoken with this woman (Oyebo) on the phone. All we need is for
her to come and give her side of the story. But all she did was send me a
nasty insult by SMS. If she did nothing wrong, why is she in hiding?” He showed our correspondent the SMS.
The
officer also said the police need Demilade to come forward to prove
that he was indeed not kidnapped. But Oyebo has said the officer was the
one who first spoke rudely to him after she called him to explain her
side of the story. When our correspondent spoke with Oyebo, she alleged
that she had made several attempts to see Demilade’s mother but that she
had refused to show up. But Demilade’s mother said Oyebo is the one who
had been avoiding her. The prophetess said,
“Did
the boy sound like someone who was hypnotised when you spoke with him? I
told the boy to go to the office of the police public relations office
to present himself and he did.I wanted to have a talk with the mother
because the steps the boy was taking were not good for the family. I
wanted the matter resolved. I did not want him to live like a homeless
child. But she refused to show up. The boy said there were so many
things he knew about his parents which was why they wanted him back so
he does not spill the secrets. If the boy said going to his parents
would mean the end for him, would I be the one to drag him to them?“I
swear to God almighty the boy is not under my roof. I realise that if
the boy is handled with care, he might just travel out of the country if
he finds the means.I have reported this case at the National Human
Rights Commission in Lagos. I have been advised to write a petition to
the assistant inspector-general of police, Zone 2, Onikan Lagos and send
a copy to the Lagos State commissioner of police. After I have filed
the petition, I will show up and we will tell Demilade to come and tell
the police if I kidnapped him or not.”
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