Muhammad K. Muhammad
Call it magic, juju, voodoo, traditional medicine. Shehu Sani, President of Kaduna based Civil Rights Congress (CRC), prefers to call it "spiritualism and African artistry". Whatever it is called that traditional medicine men or marabouts were convened at the Transcorp Hilton to do, Shehu Sani's CRC asked them to put Western technology to shame by detecting where four year-old Madeleine McCann is, and who her kipnapper is.
These spiritualists, to provide sacrificial animals for whom between N40,000 and N50,000 was expended, are going to come out with a declaration tomorrow, at the expiration of the one week they asked to complete their search. They were gingered by Shehu Sani, who, saying that since Western technology has failed to locate the little girl, urged them to surprise the world.
Well, Portuguese police have also taken a cue and have turned to psychics and clairvoyants. How-ever, whereas the Policia Judiciária had two dossiers of apparent visions and psychic sightings of Madeleine, placing her at locations across the world, the Nigerian or African spiritualists maintained that the girl is still in Portugal. The media have reported a series of raids on London homes but there were no traces of the missing girl. It was not clear whether a "vision" was the source of information that led to Portuguese police asking their English counterparts to raid a home in London.
The Post Chronicle reported that already a top psychic, Diane Lazarus, who said she knew where the girl is, the people she is with, and that they have changed her clothes and are moving her around, has traveled from South Wales to Portugal to help find the girl.
The British girl was abducted from her bed in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz, where her parents were holidaying a month ago, trigg-ering a huge search that has taken Kate and Gerald McCann across a number of European countries. They met with Spanish interior mini-ster and were blessed by the Pope.
When Madeleine was taken away, her parents had gone out to dinner with a number of friends, one of whom thought she saw a man carrying a child wearing clothes that matched those worn by the girl at the time. The friend, who arrived late for the dinner, said she did not realise the import of what she saw until thirty minutes when Kate McCann went to check on the girl and her brother and sister. The Portuguese police, however, did not release this peace of information until British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown inter-vened with Portuguese authorities, The Times of London reported.
By joining the search for missing Madeleine, the African "spiritual artists" who have been drafted by Shehu Sani have further swelled the number of people involved in the struggle to find her. Their hope is that they would be able to beat all the people who are busy trying to unravel the mystery using orthodox or unorthodox means, in which case, according to Shehu Sani, "it is going to be a plus to Africa and its artistry".
One of the spiritualists had declared that: "We will tell the world where she is and who took her. We will prove our artistry and skill in the African way of doing things. We are happy with this incident because it is an opportunity to prove our critics wrong".
The world is waiting to be surprised.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200706041284.html
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