We Kill Babies: Anas In Juju Saga

The accused persons with the prosthetic baby and a police officer (middle)

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has managed to get some dreaded witch doctors to confess on video that they literally kill babies, during an undercover operation that has raised questions on whether the journalist is using some spiritual powers to enhance his profession.

Anas had gone undercover to expose some powerful witch doctors whose job was to kill any child born with a disability, because such a child is believed to have evil powers that would bring misfortune to the parents and their neighbors.

 The said powerful witch doctors operate at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region and some parts of the Northern Region and one of them was seen in the video confessing in his local dialect:

“We kills babies who would bring bad luck to their parents. I have personally killed over 100 of such babies by preparing a special type of poison for them.

“Some of them manage to escape the poison and do not die but a majority of them die anyway. We bury them in the forest and put huge black stones on them so that animals do not eat them up.”

Anas said he presented an 18-month-old baby to the witch doctors and told them his business had never seen prosperity after the birth of the child.

The concoction men, after some spiritual consultations with ‘divinity’, then told him that the child was the source of his misfortunes and therefore must be killed through a specially brewed poison.

He said the killers charged him an equivalent of $40, three live fowls and some bottles of hard liquor after which an appointment was fixed for them to come to his home and feed the child with the concoction.

“I had contracted a London-based company to produce a prosthetic baby in the exact replica of the 18-month-old child because I was not very sure what might happen.

When they came, they saw the real child but after they had prepared the poison and were about to kill the innocent boy, I swapped it with the prosthetic baby and that was when the Police swooped in and took over.

Every single thing was being recorded secretly and the Police were in a separate room, monitoring everything on CCTV,” Anas noted.

Residents of Bolgatanga have expressed utter shock that such dreaded and powerful witch doctors could not see that they were dealing with an undercover agent.

“He must be using some powerful juju because the witch doctors see everything in a man’s heart.

If you go to them, they know your mission and whether it is a good one or a bad one.

So why did they not see that Anas had a bad motive if he himself is not using some strong juju?” Fiazal Omar, a Bolga resident wondered in a chat with NEWS-ONE.

This is about the third time the issue of whether or not Anas is using juju has come up.

In 2009, during an undercover job in Bimbila, a cattle owner had ordered his cattle to attack Anas, but the journalist spoke a strange language to the cows and they calmed down.

Again, during the recent undercover work that exposed a certain quack doctor who raped his patients, Anas was said to have walked through a wall during the investigation when a nurse saw him planting a camera and raised an alarm.