A strange underground apartment has been discovered in Adiyan, a community in the outskirts of Ogun State.
The
underground facility conceals some odd buildings in which were found
mysterious and fetish materials such as herbs, bottles of dry gin,
shrines splashed with blood, moulded images smeared with blood, white
rappers, dry bones, dead animals and sculptures inscribed with
inexplicable symbols, among other weird things.
Many of these
weird items, as shown in the pictures, were found in hidden spots in the
buildings erected deep inside the ground.The road leading to Adiyan
from Kola junction in Lagos is dusty and rough. Motorbikes, tricycles
(Keke Marwa) and vehicles have a difficult time plying it. Although, it
is highly populated, travelling to the community from Lagos is indeed a
herculean task. It took almost three hours of hectic driving before the
reporter found his way into the area.
The
bus stop was Tobi and from there, the reporter had to walk for another
two hours before he found the strange underground: He had to climb down a
few steps from the top of a decked building before accessing the
strange place which instantly instilled fear into a first time caller,
no thanks to the fetish images and items that occupied everywhere.
Following
an outcry by residents of the community that a ritualists’ den was
found in the outskirts of the community, the reporter visited the place
in a bid to investigate the allegation. The residents expressed
differing opinions about the strange underground facility. Some said it
is a den for ritualists who kidnap their victims and behead them for
money-making rituals in the place.
Those who insisted on this
allegation said that the operators of the underground building are
usually consulted by big men to kidnap people and bring them into the
place for the rituals. They added that the fetish materials found in the
underground apartment further confirmed their fears about the rituals
allegedly going on there.
One of those who held this view, who
simply identified himself as Oke, told Daily Sun: “We have been
wondering what was responsible for the mysterious disappearance of
people and children in the community. Now, we know the cause. That
underground place must have been the den of kidnappers who abduct people
for the big men in our country.
The kidnappers usually disguise
as commercial drivers and pick people on the road and blindfold them and
take them to underground buildings like this so as to use them for
money-making rituals. You see blood everywhere in the underground
buildings. You also see many fetish items which they use to perform
their evil enterprises. God has decided to expose them, that is why we
discovered it this time.”
However, a different opinion was
expressed by others who claim they are the real natives of the
community. They insisted that the strange images and items found in the
underground buildings were mere religious items for traditional
practices.
Dismissing the allegation that the underground is a
den for money-making rituals, they maintained that it is just a haven
created by the traditionalists to worship their gods. According to them,
those who own the underground apartment worship gods like Ogun, Sango,
Obatala, Ifa and Osun, among others.
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