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A 94-year-old traditional priest has been arrested in Nigeria after cursing the alleged perpetrators of a recent spate of violence.<\/p>\n
Anazo Ilomuanya was hired by a group of youths attempting to end killings affecting Ozubulu town, in the south-east of the country, police say.<\/p>\n
The police arrested the traditional priest after local people complained.<\/p>\n
The conflict, thought to be between rival drug gangs, led to the killing of 13 churchgoers last year.<\/p>\n
It is believed that the perpetrators mistakenly thought the intended target of the attack was attending the St Philip\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n
At the time, police said the shooting was\u00a0the result of a feud between Nigerians from Ozubulu\u00a0who were living abroad and that the violence could be linked to drug-trafficking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe youths of the town, under the name of Concerned Indigenous People of Ozubulu in seeking a means to end the killings, consulted the traditional priest to lay curses on the people involved,\u201d police spokesperson Haruna Muhammed told BBC Igbo.<\/p>\n
But others in the town were unhappy and reported the priest and the youths to the police, Mr Muhammed added.<\/p>\n
Those arrested are due to appear in court, but it is unclear what they will be charged with as it is not a crime to lay a curse on someone under Nigerian law.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 94-year-old traditional priest has been arrested in Nigeria after cursing the alleged perpetrators of a recent spate of violence. Anazo Ilomuanya was hired by a group of youths attempting to end killings affecting Ozubulu town, in the south-east of the country, police say. The police arrested the traditional priest after local people complained. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n