Teenager Dies While Testing Bulletproof Charm Meant For Osun Guber Election
Pandemium struck at the weekend in Asipa, a town in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State, western Nigeria when a teenager, simply identified as Rasheed Sulaimon, killed himself while allegedly trying to test the potency of a charm prepared to ward off bullets during the upcoming governing polls in the state.
Leadership reports that Sulaimon and his cousin, identified as Siji, had left the residential area for a desolate part of the town with the aim of testing the potency of an amulet someone made for Sulaimon to ward off bullets.
A resident of Asipa town, who spoke on condition of anonymity, informed that Sulaimon, a bricklayer apprentice, had told Siji to accompany him to Anglican Church Area, in the town to test the charm.
* Rauf Aregbesola, left, and Iyiola Omisore
“Sulaimon has always been a tough guy and he is a bit older than Siji. The two of them left for a desolate part of the town to test the charm. Though the day the incident happened was on the day our market here was being observed, no one saw them until gunshot was heard,” the source explained.
It was gathered from those who arrived the scene of the incident shortly after the gunshot was allegedly fired that Siji said the deceased compelled him to shoot at him in order to test the potency of an amulet he intended using during the forthcoming governorship poll.
It was learnt that the incident, which threw the town into panic shortly after it happened, has dominated discource among people in the community.
Also, elders in the town were said to have been paying close attention to youths in the area with a view to identifying those of them that may be keeping similar charms to avoid similar incident in the future.
When newsmen contacted the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of Osun State Police Command, DSP Folasade Odoro, on the incident, she stated that the police is yet to get a report on the incident.
“No report made yet. At times, people would not report incident like that to the police,” she said.
Ahead the Osun state governorship election scheduled to take place 9 August, 2014, political analysts have been warning on crisis before, during and after the polls.
It would be recalled that two people were reported to have been killed in a clash between supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ijoro area of Osun.
The Osun guber election is predicted to be a contest between APC's candidate, the incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola, and Senator Iyiola Omisore of the PDP.
Source: Legit.ng
