Nairobi thugs sleep in coffins in Uganda to escape bullets

Via SDE

They are sleeping in coffins [Photo: Courtesy]

Criminals in Nairobi have resorted to sleeping in coffins to ward off police bullets, SDE reported.

The Nairobian has established that city thugs often sleep inside dark coffins for up to 30 minutes to make them ‘invisible and immortal’.

The rituals are carried out by a renowned witch doctor, whose clientele continue to increase by the day.

The Nairobian has also established that some criminals often cross the border to neighbouring Uganda to undergo strange rituals to increase their fortunes.

The trick was revealed by a popular police officer who often warns criminals on social media to give up their wayward ways or be dispatched to their maker.

The officer recently posted a warning on social media reading: “A number of youth are now being deceived that they will succeed in their robberies and become invisible after visiting a witchdoctor who locks them in coffins for 30 minutes then forces them to drink a glass of blood daily.”

He goes on: “Such youth are going as far as Uganda to be locked in coffins, but we tell them to work hard and eat their sweat, try your monkey business keeping in mind that you will meet with the bullet (sic).”

One of the undercover cops tasked with tracking the thugs, among them members of outlawed Gaza gangs corroborated this even as members of the gang are shifting to other towns.

“For more than three months now, those shot dead are found with strange paraphernalia. But what shocked us is how one of them who survived claimed to have undergone the coffin ritual,” said the undercover cop.

He added that: “He told us how they were promised ‘invisibility’ and that all their robbery plans would succeed even in the harshest and most dangerous environments.

Some of the paraphernalia [Photo: Courtesy]

Police say witch doctors make thousands of shillings by hoodwinking criminals that they can make them ‘immortal’.

“I want to warn young men who have decided to undergo this primitive ritual thinking that it will shield them from our bullets. They are mistaken. Our bullets will not fail,” a police officer warned.

The revelation comes after Francis Mwanzia, a reformed robber, narrated how he used to receive ‘traditional’ service from a witchdoctor based on Juja Road.

Mwanzia says he would meet hundreds of youth and businesspeople who had come to seek juju to boost their businesses and seek help in for relationship problems.

“There are many cases of criminals seeking ‘treatment’ from witchdoctors. A day hardly passes without us bumping into a criminal covered in witchcraft paraphernalia.

"Some of them carry crocodile teeth and apply strange ointment on their bodies. Others carry fly whisks, bones, oils, rings, black powders and treated water,” the undercover police officer operating along Juja Road said.

What was found in one of the suspects [Photo: Courtesy]

My view: People will do anything for money, this is clearly for money rituals.