[net-nigeria] Women Protest Over Sex Charm
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"Na di worse day of mai life, I no no wetin hapun," Chinyere Mbadiwe
said, holding back tears as she recounted her mysterious sexual
encounters in Mushin, Lagos, which have left her life in shreds.
She is one of a growing number of women in the country who have fallen
victim to a sex charm known as 'Ogun Amudo', which enables a man using
it to sleep with a woman invisibly.
Chinyere fell victim to her unknown sex abuser(s) only days after she
took up a trading post at a primary school in Mushin.
She woke up on the second at the school "di tin just fresh, e be laik
say I just do finish sef, but na me alone dey for di whole house, see
me, see trouble".
"I dey shock sotay, I come tire well, well, I no fit go my shop, I no
no wetin hapun, I no fit sleep again sef, no be say I dey dream say I
dey do sef for nite," she said.
There are reports of women complaining of being involved in invisible
sexual encounters, and of men being caught, stark naked, in
neighbours' bedrooms in mysterious circumstances.
Officials of the National Traditional Healers' Association, a
grouping of herbalists, said an increasing number of men
were approaching them for 'Ogun Amudo', a sex charm meant to assist
the timid ones to open their hearts to women they had fallen in love
with.
"'Ogun Amudo' was meant to act as a love portion and help people marry
women of their choice. These days the magic is used to fulfil selfish
desires," the association's information officer, Seun Suraju, one of
Nigeria's leading traditional doctors, added.
When Chinyere related her experience to Mary Okonkwo, another new
trader at the school, she discovered her colleague had also fallen
victim to a Ogun-Amudo man, probably men.
Local social scientists suspect the upsurge in the search and use of
Ogun-Amudo is a result of the belief one cannot contract AIDS in such
sexual encounters, as is the case in normal sex.
"Men still want to have multiple sex partners but are afraid of AIDS,
and I think this is why they are turning to things like Ogun-Amudo to
satisfy their sexual fantasies," Kester Madu, a social scientist,
said.
"It is believed you don't run the risk of being infected with sexually
transmitted diseases when and where you use Ogun-Amudo, and this is
good news to people who want to have sex with multiple partners," he
added.
But women are not only unconvinced they are safe from diseases, but
want to put a stop to a practice they regard is a gross violation of
their human rights.
All the men who have been found stark naked, in neighbours' bedrooms
in mysterious circumstances in recent days, have been charged with a
lesser offence of house-breaking, leaving the women fuming.
"Who tuk say law na ass sef dey correct,. how u go charge man wey dey
naked for yar bedroom for onli house breaking, when evidence dey say
di man wan tif poi?" Chinyere queried angrily.
But the police say their hands are tied, and will remain so.
"The only thing the police can do if a person is caught in a house is
to charge him with house-breaking with unknown intentions," police
spokesman Wande Ojomo said.
In an attempt to deflect the mounting anger of women over Ogun-Amudo,
the association said even members of the fairer sex were seeking the
charm to enable them to be intimate with men they adored.
But the women are not buying it, and are particularly angry with the
association, whose members are the main providers of Ogun-Amudo to the
offending men.
"Why we neva see, or hear say one woman don use di Ogun-Amudo come
sleep wit one man, see say dem find di woman dey naked for di man
yard, abi di men no go tuk, if woman use Ogun-Amudo come sleep wit
dem" Chinyere, who has had to receive medical treatment for trauma
after her experiences, asked.
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