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DEATH ON TOP OF A WOMAN: ABACHA AND THE CURSE OF THE ANCESTORS: Why Taboos, Customs and Traditions Matter

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by Moses Oludele Idowu

The jury is out at last. The waiting game is over. The suspense has itself being suspended. The final clue in the mystery surrounding the death of General Sani Abacha is at last uncovered and unsealed.
Dennis Amachree’s book and his definitive and authoritative pronouncement on the last hours preceding the death of Abacha represents the final whistle on any search and the trophy of discovery. His statement about the cause of Abacha’s death has laid to rest any speculation and guesswork and the other thousand and one foolish tales, theories and conjectures about the death and the cause of death of that infantry general.
It is confirmed.
It is authentic.
It is factual.
This is not guesswork, mere mental speculation or self- deluding exercise in phantasmagoria. This is an authority view and statement from someone who knows and who was in a position to know.
No more speculation. No need for guesswork or speculative journalism. It is sad that for almost thirty years the Nigerian Press could not decode or uncover this mystery except to reinforce the earlier concocted tales, foolish and suggestive mental speculation and theories that lead the population to the path of error.

*Cause of Death*

We now know how Sani Abacha, former maximum ruler died. We now also know – thanks to the previous misdiagnosis and misdirection by a lazy and corrupt Press – how he did not die. He was not killed by Indian prostitutes, poisoned apples, CIA- instigated handshakes – spin-offs of poor minds and uncoordinated narratives from benighted souls that only mislead from the truth. Abacha died on top of a lady while enjoying himself, a Nigerian lady of Igbo extraction and the sister of his own girlfriend, a pharmacist. That is detailed enough.
In other words, our Head of State and Nigerian leader died while sleeping with a lady, the very sister of his own girlfriend. That is he was sleeping with two sisters. The leader of our nation, the supposed guardian of our national moral codes, ethical principles and spiritual and traditional mores and bearings was sleeping with a lady, the very sister of the woman he had been sleeping with.
Let that sink in. Don’t forget that. Oftentimes we miss the real story and the major lessons of life by ignoring the little details embedded in a story.

*The Witches and the Ancestors*

Witches do not kill and cannot kill a person. Know that today. I am sure you haven’t heard that before. It is contrary to what you have heard. But it is true. Witches are like AIDS, – acquired immune deficiency syndrome – they don’t and can’t kill directly but can destroy the immunity and make the body so prostate and susceptible to opportunistic diseases that would otherwise have been unable to kill. Witches engage in war games, psychological war games that make a person, a victim to make some unwise decisions, foolish mistakes and unguarded moves due to manipulation that would eventually lead him open to forces that will take his life. In the falling to this manipulation the victim takes steps that brings him in collision with higher forces, ancestral curses and karmic retribution thus rendering all his protections and natural and spiritual fortifications invalid, powerless and then making him susceptible to control and domination including death. Shakespeare was saying something closer to this in Macbeth:

” And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest truffles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.”

It was exactly what happened in the story recorded in the Jewish Bible about Israel and the Moabites. Seeing the large population of Israel and their warriors the Moabitish king knew he couldn’t defeat them in the battlefield so he devised a method. Balak had summoned a prophet/ sorcerer to curse Israel so that in the ensuing confrontation on the battlefield they may have the upper hand. But Balaam could not work because the God of Israel wouldn’t allow him to curse. The real reason was that “a curse causeless shall not come”- there has to be a cosmic, or psychic right or legal grounds for a curse to be pronounced and since Israel hadn’t done anything to warrant such Balaam would be violating a spiritual law by invoking a curse. You cannot use the power of God to destroy the people of God who had done no wrong. To avert a spiritual Constitutional crisis God forbade him from issuing such decree.
Thwarted in their agenda the Moabites devised a plan. Since they could not curse them they could at least get them to offend their own God themselves so He would destroy them Himself. Thus
they sent their beautiful women to charm Israeli young men and draw them to their heathenish sacrificial rites. They advanced a game of manipulation against Israel so as to make them offend their God and the spirits of their ancestors. This is what witches do best. Then the battle is won. God Himself destroyed Israel for their sins.
Do you get these illustrations?

When the Igbo lady brought her sister to the General Sani Abacha she actually tempted him whether she realized it or not. When Abacha too fell for the temptation and took her she fell to the gamble. When she left her sister for her boyfriend she did evil, she committed a taboo, a traditional faux pas. And when Abacha against the rule of customs and traditions took that lady he committed a bigger taboo. When he mounted that lady and became intimate with her he committed Haram, he sinned against the traditions and customs of Africa and offended the spirits of the ancestors and the Law of God. You do not sleep with a woman and also with her sister – no matter the temptation. It is taboo. It is abomination in Africa and in all Holy books and sacred writings. It is what Yoruba call ‘eewo”; what Igbo call “nso” and in Abacha’s own tribe it is called ‘haramun’.

All manner of terrible things are being done today and people seem to be getting away with them. I have even heard of men impregnating mother and daughter or even two sisters… And they seem to get away but they don’t. Only for a short time. The land is polluted for this and the consequences when they do come will be grave for all. However for the leader of a nation, the custodian of a nation’s moral codes and standards much is expected and his own judgement may be swift as it was.

*The Watchers and the Ancestors*

Here is another truth: God does not kill anyone. In fact He has never killed anyone. He does not have to. If the Nigerian State wants to execute a person for treason is it the President that will carry out the actual execution? No. He is not even the one who will sentence the accused but he can stop the execution or cause it to proceed or delayed.
People do not know that there are spiritual levels in the Universe and there are jurisdictions and tribunals in each of these jurisdiction. People do not know that there are courts above the Earth and that there are extraterrestrial beings who are watching us and examining every action and behaviour both good and bad and execute judgement appropriately at the right time. You could be tried and sentenced without your presence and the sentence will be executed against you if there are no higher forces to intercede, intervene on your behalf or overrule the sentence if you break the ethical codes. This happens especially for rulers but also as well for followers.

There is a group of beings called “Watchers”- a kind of extraterrestrial beings or angels who have direct and customary Rights watching the Earth and the activities of men to see how they comply with God’s Eternal Rules and Ethical Codes. They are, as their names are called, “watchers” because they watch the activities and behaviour of men.

When Nebuchadnezzar, a king of Babylon who ruled between 605 – 562 BC got intoxicated with power and her heart lifted up against the Almighty, his own Creator, the Watchers saw it and smote him turning his heart to that of beast. He would be in the wilderness for 7 years till he recognized that the Most High rules in the affairs of men. It was by the decree of the Watchers – the extraterrestrial beings mandated by God to watch over the Earth.

When Herod made his oration to the people of Tyre and they hailed him saying, “This is the voice of a god not man.” The Watchers saw it and grew angry because he gave not God the Glory. He robbed his Creator and shared the Glory that belongs to God with Him – an abomination. The Watchers were incensed and smote him without even giving him a second chance. He died and was eaten of worms.

The Watchers are active in the affairs of men but people do not know this. They watch the actions and behaviours of men and especially the rulers and execute judgement.

When Abacha mounted that lady he committed haramun, abomination that warrant divine judgement. He sinned against the land and its ancestors and even the Law of God and came under the direct hit and firing range of the Watchers and they smote him. Whether you call it “cardiac arrest” or use any medical terminology it is the same process. Herod too might be said to have had a cardiac arrest when he fell from the stage of oratory. Whatever that was it was the penalty for error.

In essence those who say that Abacha died of “poisoned apples” are not too wrong. They are right in some metaphorical and spiritual sense. That beautiful lady, the sister of his own woman friend was an apple, like every beautiful woman appears to amorous men; but it was a “poisoned apple”- because she was haramun and abomination.
That Igbo woman friend of Abacha committed a crime against her own culture and customs and the tradition of her forefathers by offering her own sister to her boyfriend. She ought to know that is a taboo in her own culture. One of the greatest tragedies that has befallen the Igbo race and other races is the truncation of cultural values by the young who seem to care less about these. In my opinion the real tragedy of the Civil War on the Igbo is not the loss of lives of millions; if there is one great tragedy that the Civil War inflicted on the Igbo it is the destruction of a once- vibrant and one of the best moral codes and traditional value systems in Africa. The Civil War and the aftermath destroyed the Culture of Honour among the Igbo – totally, completely and almost perfectly. This is the real tragedy, not the losses in human and material resources. By series of unfortunate events, incidents, numerous cases and details both here and abroad this reality is established beyond reasonable doubt.

In conclusion, the youths of today can learn lessons from this. Oftentimes I wonder why people especially these new generation behaves as if they are a law to themselves. As if there is no consequence for misdemeanors and no retribution for false actions. There are. If not immediate like Abacha then sometimes soon. Respect the taboos, the rules of the ancestors and the moral and ethical codes of society and, above all, even the Law of God. Causes attract consequences, if not now then much later. But they must come. Actions must definitely attract similar consequences by the Law of Homogeneous Attraction.

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July 22, 2026
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