Vampire could have forgotten to use disappearance charm, says his herbalist

Iweajua Gad

The 55-year-old herbalist, Iweajua Gad, who own up to have been in charge of charms preparations to fortify the notorious kidnap kingpin, Henry Chibueze, commonly known as Vampire, murdered last week during a gun battle with men of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team in Abia State, has claimed that Vampire may have forgot to tie the charm for disappearance on his waist.

Gad, who was apprehended on Sunday, March 5, in his shrine at Asoeme town, Aba, Abia South Local Government Area, Abia State, confessed that he collected the sum of N700,000 from the gang to prepare the charms that will aid vampire’s rescue from the court.

Gad also said to have prepared charms that could stop bullets from piercing through Vampire’s body and that of his cohorts.

Another notable story was how Henry Chibueze killed three of his cousins, which includes a soldier. This confession was made by one of the suspects (Chukwuebuka Ikeazota) arrested at the end of the gun battle that killed Vampire.

According to the herbalist: “yes, I was his juju man. I performed the special ritual that made his escape from the Owerri High Court. I did it with the assistance of three other herbalists.

“Part of the rituals included causing disagreement among prison officials. We got the names of seven prison officials through the help of Vampire ’s brother. I did incarnations, which caused them to be weak and confused. I was paid N700,000 for the ritual. I was given an initial payment of N200,000 for the preparation and after he was successfully rescued, I was paid the balance of N500,000.”

When asked why the charm became futile on the day Vampire’s reign ended, he said that he could have forgotten to tie the charms meant for disappearance round his waist.

Meanwhile, one of the alleged members of the gang, Chukwuebuka Ikeazota, disclosed how Vampire planned the bloody Friday, January 27, rescue from prison custody.

He revealed that Vampire had already provided all the logistics, funds, arms and ammunition that was used by the gang.

He added that it was Vampire’s elder brother, Cornelius Ikeazota, who led the gang that rescued Vampire.

Chukwuebuka Ikeazota

He said: “I am related to Vampire by blood. My mother and his father were born by same parents. He is from Agbaja town in Nwagele Local Government Area, Imo State, and he used to visit us while we were younger.

“He stopped coming regularly to our house about 10 years ago, after he killed a soldier in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Talked about the cousins and solder Killed by Vampire;

He add: “Afterwards, we heard that he was a robber and that during an operation he killed a soldier.

“He ran away after that incident and I didn’t see him again until 2015, when he was arrested by the Department of State Service, DSS operatives.

“Before his arrest, three of my uncles were killed by a gunman in my mother’s home town in Agbaja.

“My mother and some of her sisters trooped to their village and laid curse on whoever carried out the killing.

“It was three days after the curse was placed on their killers that Vampire was arrested by DSS. During interrogation, he confessed to be responsible for the death of my uncles. He said he killed them because they swindled him of some money he gave them to build a house for him.

“I used to visit him while he was in prison; to buy him food. He did not eat food cooked in the prison. During one of the visits, he gave me a note to take to his native doctor in Abia State. He was always in constant communication with my elder brother Cornelius.

“He (Cornelius) was the person Vampire gave money to buy SUV for him and he knows where Vampire kept his weapons.

“It was Cornelius that organised the boys that went to the court to rescue Vampire. Thereafter, they brought him to our house. He never came out of the house during the day.

“Two days after his release, he regrouped his boys and they went into town, kidnapped four persons and kept them in a forest. He was still staying in our house at the time I was arrested.”