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Saturday 23 September 2017

Why Those Who Commit Serial Abominations Never Die In Nnewi Without An Open Involuntary Confession

By Anayo M. Nwosu

Ezeobieti had wished for death but would not get it. He would not die until he confessed all his atrocities. That was the natural law for evil people like him.

No man as bad as he was and who had committed heinous crimes against his kinsmen would die in Nnewi town without confessing his sins in an act known as "isa n'onu".

As bad as death itself is, it avoids a contagious soul like that of Ezeobieti. Admitting offenders into its bosom without exposure would further worsen the reputation of death as an ultimate evil.

A willful spiller of blood of the innocent would not be touched by death without the troubled soul first telling the world the litany of how he had killed named victims and made lives of his kinsmen very miserable.


He must divulge all that he did in the secret to a crowd of mostly victims and those in his waiting list. A crowd of news spreading people would always swam to the venue of the confession as soon as it starts.

The confessor must have to name all the people he or she killed with lucid descriptions on how they were killed them. He must also explain the reasons why he carried out the crime to the last detail.

Isa n'onu is very different from what we hear Benin witches and wizards do.

In Nnewi, our evil townsmen and women ripe for isa n'onu do so at the terminal existential moments of their wicked sojourn on earth.

If after the isa n'onu and the evil doer still remains alive, which is rare, the person's funeral ceremony is performed and 21 canon shots are used to send him or her out of the town. In the ancestral register of Nnewi people, the person whose funeral ceremony has been performed is deemed dead.

It is a spectacle where the fearsome Ezeobieti sang like a canary, a horrid song of iniquities.

When Mazi Mkpume took "Ezeobieti" as an ozor title name, unsuspecting kinsmen accepted the name thinking that he meant "a man with a strong heart" but the events of his later years revealed his own interpretation of "Ezeobieti" as  "a man who do humungous things without bathing an eyelid".

What didn't Ezeobieti do?

He killed a wine taper on top of palm tree and killed many women with pregnancies ripe for child delivery.

In the list of remote life liquidation by Ezeobieti were the young, the old, and newly weaned.

He was simply the satan's distributor of calamities to his people.

As his day of reckoning approached, Ezeobieti, who had not come out of his compound for two days due to slight headache suddenly decided to go to market.

It was an Eke market day and he chose to go sell one of his big cocks to raise money for tobacco snuff.


He set a trap with grains of corn and caught the fowl he wanted. He was in the market as early as a 81year old could.

Perhaps, Ezeobieti would have been alive if he didn't attempt to activate a miscarriage of the pregnancy of Chinualum, her friend's daughter who had come to market to buy chicken.

Chinualum and her siblings no longer greeted Ezeobieti after the death of their parents which deaths they suspected that Ezeobieti must know one or two things about, the very people Ezeobieti regarded as friends but refused to see their corpse as they laid in-state.

"Nne, i bialu afia? You can buy my cock, I will sell to you at a good bargain", was what Ezeobieti said to the young pregnant woman before the lady retorted, "okpoba i golu" meaning "you could buy your goods yourself "

"Bia mua ka m fu" meaning "you shall never deliver that baby in your stomach as long as I'm alive", was all Ezeobieti said and the young pregnant Chinualum lost it.

Suddenly a crowd gathered around the duo, begging the Chinualum to leave Ezeobieti's by the waist.

Chinualum was not fighting Ezeobieti but the crowd thought otherwise.

The young woman was lost in a frenzy of a new tongue she learnt from a new religion of some whiteman called "father".

Her group was called "Ndi Uka Father" or "followers of Father" (as Roman Catholics were known when they newly arrived Nnewi).

"Back to sender! The curse shall return to you as a boomerang! You shall be exposed today! I shall be the last of your victims!Our father who art in heaven who art in heaven, hallowed ..." were all what the young lady was shouting when Ezeobieti froze and started some uncanny movements.

At this point, Chinualum released her grip on the old man's waist as an unknown spirit took hold of Ezeobieti.

Ezeobieti laughed and started gazing into the eyes of everybody without focusing on anybody in particular. He opened the lid of his bottled container of his wicked and horrendous acts.

"Onwu kalum mma!" meaning "I'm better off dead!", Ezeobieti shouted, sat on the ground and began to tell his odious story.

"This girl is lucky as she would have lost her pregnancy and her life before she got home today. How dare she ignore and go buy cock from another person to spite me?

"Was I not the Ezeobieti that killed her parents for insults like this?

"I'm in shock and wonder how she got married as I had cast a spell on her and her sisters that would make any suitor see them as bad luck", Ezeobieti continued as the whole market congregated around him to hear as he catalogued his evil deeds.

The good thing about "isa n'onu" is that once someone does this unintentional confession, all those who he or she had afflicted and those on the waiting list would be released from the evil strangulating hold.

The native doctor or pastor delivering or curing the afflicted of the confessed evil distributor wouldn't have to appease more  or pray more before the afflicted is freed.

The strong force that triggers  "isa n'onu" or "isa asisa" in Nnewi is cognizant of the fact that close relations of an evil ripe for harvest, would attempt to whisk away into seclusion a relation, who is about to commence an involuntary confession.

This they do to save his their family from opprobrium or material bad name.

To ensure that "asisa" or involuntary confession happens, the force of nature ensures that it starts without notice. And when it starts, confessor would fight off any attempt by his or her relatives to close his or her mouth.

In Nnewi, we earnestly wait for the "isa n'onu" or the involuntary confessions of evil and devilish people.

No Nnewi man would marry or enter into serious partnership with someone whose parents had involuntarily confessed to serious evil acts known as "nso ani" or abomination.

That is why my people neither waive or defer background checks or know your customer (KYC) known as "igba nju or iju ase" before engaging in any business or marriage transaction with anyone.

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