Following the viral write-up from the former Special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati detailing a series of strange occurrences in the Aso Rock villa which was backed up by the former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, a staff of the construction company responsible for the structure has revealed more of the strange occurrences.
The Julius Berger staff revealed that the Aso Rock had been plagued with a series of strange occurrences right from the very day that the excavation process started.
According to Vanguard news, the staff who worked for over thirty years with the construction company claimed he was at the site when the first excavation for what became the Aso Rock was done.
He narrated: “When we moved in here, it was as if we were in a war zone. There were multiple incidences of equipment failure, workers developing strange illnesses and in one particularly poignant case, a very senior officer of the company who was brought in from Germany to supervise the construction collapsed and died on site while supervising the uprooting of a particular tree that defied all attempts to remove. Strangely, his death brought an end to the many equipment failures that we had witnessed over many weeks.”
Recall that Reuben Abati had in his article said: “I can confirm that every principal officer suffered one tragedy or the other; it was as if you needed to sacrifice something to remain on duty inside that environment.”
He further added: “…there were persons in the Villa walking upside down, head to the ground. I screamed. Everybody looked normal to me. But I soon began to suspect that I was in a strange environment indeed. Every position change was an opportunity for warfare. By the same token, all those our colleagues who used to come to work to complain about a certain death beneath their waists and who relied on videos and other instruments to entertain wives (take it easy boys, I don’t mean any harm, I am writing!), have all experienced a re-awakening…”
This is most likely the reason behind the spiritual cleansing performed be every new occupant of the villa.
A security officer who served during the President Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Musa Yaradua’s tenure noted that the spiritual cleansing carried out by the presidents differ from one to the other.
The security officer said: “When President Obasanjo came in, different men of God were brought in to pray and anoint every corner of the place before he moved in. At least that was what we saw in the afternoon. What happened in the night I cannot tell but what I know is that, under Yaradua, different Mallams, some of them said to have been imported from Chad and Niger were brought in to cleanse the place before he moved in with his family too.
“Three live cows and several rams were buried at strategic positions within the villa. These are fairly common practices that were repeated every now and then.”
Strange things witnessed at the villa have ranged from the sighting of a huge python found inside the Council chambers of the Presidential Villa where the federal executive council meeting takes place during the Olusegun Obasanjo regime to strange voices reportedly heard in the dead of the night at the villa.
A maintenance staff of the construction company further told news source that a cleaner found the python right under the table where the president seats to preside over the federal executive council.
The source continued: “The python was killed but the cleaner who found it died a few weeks after in mysterious circumstances”.
Explaining on how dreaded security men became at night when on duty at the presidential villa, the source explained: “Although we were all heavily armed and trained to wade off any kind of attack, our fear was more of the unknown forces that confront us daily. Sometimes, you hear strange voices of people quarrelling in strange languages but you will never see the people. Sometimes, we will wake up to see blood on the ground, at the fore court of the presidential Villa.
“At other times, we hear the cry of babies throughout the night.
“In one particularly poignant case, we heard banging of doors at the president’s office only to go and see that the president’s office remained securely locked. In other circumstances, even after all the electrical gadgets and lights were turned off at the president’s waiting rooms, the televisions and the lights come on, on their own with the volume at its loudest. Being on duty at night at the president’s office was the most dreaded beat among security personnel in the Villa.”
Another former staff said: “we see people with different amulets on their body when we notice suspicious behaviours. And some of the people that such amulets are found on were either friends of the president of highly placed government officials. In such delicate situation, we make formal reports to our superiors and allow them deal with it. In few instances, such people are denied access to the villa.”