Bullet-Proof Charm

Tragedy struck in Nigeria when a medicine man died after asking his customer to shoot him to test the effectiveness of his bullet-proof charm. Chinaka Adoezuwe, 26, died when he asked one of his customer to shoot him to test his product.

According to BBC, Chinaka was requested by one of his customers to make a bullet-proof charm for him, which the medicine man happily obliged. After making the bullet-proof charm, Chinaka was so confident with his product, that he handed his gun to the customer and asked the customer to shoot him, to show just how effective the bullet-proof charm is.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the charm failed to work it’s magic and Chinaka succumbed to the fatal gunshot. The police from the Nigerian south-eastern state of Imo said that the customer has been apprehended on suspicion of murder.

In Nigeria, charms enjoy massive popularity, with many people requesting for various charms to be made for many purposes.

It has gotten to the point where even the local policemen trusts the charms more than other more traditional methods of protection, such as a bullet-proof vest.

“Even my wife knows about the charm and we are both Christians. She does not complain because at the end of the day, she does not want me to lose my life facing armed robbers. There is nothing wrong with double protection,” one officer told Punch Newspaper, a Nigerian publication.

In Nigeria, such cases are not far from normal. Just this January, BBC reported that a medicine man was arrested after one of his customers was shot dead, believing that bullets will not harm him after drinking a bulletproof liquid he bought from the medicine man.

In 2003, a Nigerian healer in the Benue state was killed after instructing a client to verify that a traditional charm would protect against bullets. The client fatally shot the healer in the head.