It was like a script from a Nigerian
movie, as not less than 10 tenants died at a stretch in a mystery
circumstance in a house in Kajola Street off Dorcas Road in Ejigbo area
of Lagos in the last two years.
Obviously out of fear, other tenants, in the house already named
‘Rent and Die’ by neighbours, have since flee the compound irrespective
of their outstanding rent. What happened?
buried in the compound. But a little while after the burial, the
tenants, mysteriously started dying one after another.
Before
they realised the import of the mysterious serial deaths, 10 tenants
have gone and this instill fear on other tenants who were forced to
quickly park out from the house.
It
was learnt that apart from the serial deaths, the residents begun to
suffer economic misfortune as most of the well-to-do tenants left the
house almost in penury.
When the reporter visited the
house yesterday, the place was deserted and the gate was padlocked
indicating that no more tenant living there.
The landlord, simply identified as, Alhaji died at Mushin, Lagos where he lived but was brought to his Ejigbo house for burial.
One
of the tenants said few weeks after Alhaji’s burial, they beginning to
observe strange things culminated in tenants dying one after another in
the house till 10 of them died and buried.
According to the tenant, the first death was noticed when a tenant, an elderly woman lost two sons and were buried.
The death moved to another female tenant who lost her husband and then another male tenant lost his wife.
It
was gathered that two bachelors died in quick succession. While the
tenants were still mourning their deaths, other deaths were recorded in
other apartments which prompted the whole tenants to realise that the
deaths were no longer natural and decided to pack out of the house.
When
the reporter contacted one of the landlord’s relations, who lived but
also parked out of the house, she confirmed that there were strange
deaths in the house and all the tenants had to move out at the same
period.
She said the serial deaths of those tenants had put the family on the spot subjecting them to a lot snide remarks.
She
explained that they had to consult both Islamic clerics and pastors for
spiritual consultations and to help out in appeasing, if necessary, any
spirit behind it.
A pastor, Mrs Jacinta Ogbedelote of Jacinth
Foundation Ministry, a.k.a Precious Stone in Ejigbo said that the
tenants should be blame for their lack of spiritual understanding.
According
to her, the tenants ought to have known and moved out earlier before
whatever spirit could have taken over 10 souls in that compound.
She
said the death could not be accidental because of how it happened but
blamed it on spiritual manipulation that needed to be uprooted.