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Meet the man who took Sh5m to witch doctor to win back estranged wife – PHOTOS


It is as tragic as it is hilarious. A sacked banker has recounted his moment of foolishness that saw him lose a whopping sh2.2 million to a witch doctor in Kisumu while attempting to bring back his estranged wife.

It even gets more interesting: The man lost sh1.2 million three months ago and another sh1 million on Wednesday evening.

The heartbreak Robert Otieno suffered after he lost his job and his wife drove him to a witch doctor who had promised to wipe away his tears and gift him abundance wealth.

But there was a catch: He had to pay sh5 million!

The Sh4 million recovered by police in Kisumu from a ritualist's house on August 24, 2016. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO
The Sh4 million recovered by police in Kisumu from a ritualist’s house on August 24, 2016. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO

DEPRESSION TOOK A TOLL

Mr Otieno narrated how his life had been hell on earth in the past few months and that his depression was taking a toll on him and his high blood pressure also shot.

“When your pressure hits 180 or 200, you are not in the right sense of my mind and that is why I desperately needed prayers,” he said on Thursday.

The ex-banker, who was embarrassed and did not even want the matter to go to press, almost broke down and appeared really confused by the turn of events.

So how did it all start? Three months ago, he was fired from a local bank. It did not take long before his wife left him.

Incredibly, Mr Otieno, who heard about the services of the “spiritualist” on radio, had also lost another sh1.2 million to the same witch doctors in his first attempt to have his problems solved.

SOLD LAND

After this failed, he did not give up, he went ahead and sold his parcel of land at Kanyakwar at a cost of sh6 million to raise the amount demanded by the “spiritual leader”.

He stuffed the money in cash and drove to a posh house in Tom Mboya Estate, barely a kilometer from Kisumu Central Business District (CBD) where the “spiritual leader” was waiting.

Acting on a tip off, the police managed to rescue Mr Otieno who had been conned Sh1 million and was about to lose the other Sh4 million.

Police officers stormed the dark room where the witch-doctor Musa Osman, popularly known as ‘Ndumba wa ndumba’, operates from.

Paraphernalia associated to witchcraft in the house where Sh4 million was recovered by police in Kisumu on August 24, 2016. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO
Paraphernalia associated to witchcraft in the house where Sh4 million was recovered by police in Kisumu on August 24, 2016. PHOTO | TOM OTIENO

“It was not in my conscious that I was being robbed. What was in my mind was that I was being prayed for because I have many problems,” said Mr Otieno.

Mr Otieno had also been instructed to come with a newly purchased refrigerator, and instructed not to open it for the next 36 days for him to experience change in his troubled life.

The suspect, who escaped the police dragnet, is said to have disappeared with Sh1 million.