OndoX Disease: Community Says Why Victims Died

High Chief Moses Enimade, the Oyewoga of Ode-Irele, discloses the allegedly real reason of deaths linked with the mysterious disease in Ondo state.

Enimade shared his point during the interview in Irele on April 18, Saturday, Vanguard reports.

He denied the rumour that the deaths of people were caused by strange ailment or Ebola saying that
the passing of the youths was sacrilege done to Molokun, god of the land.

“Molokun is a deity of the land, only the Chief Priest and High Chief Gboguron are qualified to enter the shrine.”

The chief recalled that the youths entered the shrine and made away with traditional items in a bid to acquire extra-ordinary powers and engage in money ritual.

“They were not qualified to enter the room (shrine). They had to face death penalty.

“Even the Kabiesi himself is not permitted to enter the Molokun Shrine’s inner room except the Chief Priest and High Chief Gboguron. Sacrifice must be performed before they can enter.

“Because these youths want to be rich at all costs, they entered the sacred place and made away with traditional items and 20 of them have died as a result of their desperate acts,

“We have to appease the gods or else many will still die and we have to bury them according to tradition. Their corpses belong to the gods and will be exhumed if buried by their families.

“The death caused by Molokun is characterised by severe headache and blindness.

“Proverbs 29:1 in the Bible say: `he that had been reproved and hardened his neck shall suddenly be destroyed without remedy; so youths of nowadays must be careful’.”

Meanwhile Ebola Alert group informed the public that based on the results obtained from Lagos laboratory, the samples from the victims tested negative to Ebola and five other deadly diseases.

Ondo authorities have so far confirmed the death of 17 people, while the unofficial sources say that over 30 people have passed away.