“Count Me Out Of Imo Alleged Ritual” – Sat Guru Maharaj Ji

The Spiritual Leader of One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj Ji on Wednesday washed his hands off the allegation against one of his devotees, Chimezie Osigweh, who was accused of killing his 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lucy Osigweh, 10 years ago and got her embalmed in a private shrine at Ezuru Umuagwu village, Imo State, on Monday. The media has since then picked on Guru’s name after the accused told journalists that he has been a senior member of Guru Maharaj Ji’s faith for the past 24 years. Speaking through the Coordinator of Lagos One Love Ashram, Premie Koribe Babatunde Bamgbala at the headquarters to Independent Newspapers Limited in Lagos, Guru said, “there is no iota of truth in the innuendo being peddled around that Guru Maharaj Ji members are ritualists. Let me state here that I have nothing to do with ritualism. The door of any of our ashram is open for anybody to find out about what we do. Maharaj Ji’s faith abhors ritualism. In all our teachings, there is nothing like fetish or using human being for ritual at all. We don’t suck blood. I will never do it.” He continued, “Yes, the man in question is a member of One Love Family, we can’t deny that. We want the police to carry out thorough investigation and tell the public the whole truth. The man is facing pure family matter that has nothing to do with Guru Maharaj Ji.” He added: “there have been instances where members of a church or other faith have been accused of doing one terrible thing or the other. Does that suggest that their leaders were the ones behind it? I am not passing judgment yet, but what happened was a personal affair of the man and his family. That should be treated as such. Again, I want the public to underline what Chimezie said that as a Guru devotee, he would not want to talk anyhow for now. Therefore, the police should investigate further because we know that anything about Guru to some persons, is evil whereas they are wrong.”