Use Juju To Fight Crime, Corruption, Traditionalist Tells Government

The Yeye -Osun of Lagos Mainland, Mrs Folusho Adeogun-Oga, who gave the advice, blamed the high rate of crime and corruption in the country to the negligence of African traditional religion.

Speaking in Lagos on Tuesday, she said that Islam and Christianity were borrowed religions which had relegated African traditional worship, culture and sound moral values over the years.

According to her, it was because of the negligence of the traditional religion that has made people to derail and embrace crime and corruption.

“African traditional religion should be practised to ensure that every individual in the society behaves in conformity to the dictates of the law and reshape the society.

“Before the advent of western religion, thunder strikes whoever commits crime to serve as deterrent to others who planned to do same.

“We need to go back to our roots and neglect the western religion so that it does not die a natural death. “African traditional religion makes use of natural plants, water and some other things made by God to heal and comfort us,’’ she said.

Adeogun-Oga said that in the olden days, whoever stole was given instant judgment, because different gods would be consulted and immediate sanction meted on such. “Now, people hide under the guise of western religion to commit atrocities,’’ she said.