Fleeing Obi Levi Obieze, has denied being a native doctor.
In an interview conducted by security operatives after his capture, Obieze said he was a businessman who sells used clothes popularly called ‘Okrika’.
Speaking further, he said that the issue against him was political, accusing the President General of his community of trying to set him up inorder to make him back out of the kingship tussle in the area.
“The issue against me is political. The people in my village are against me because I am supposed to be ‘next-of-kin’.
“They are planting evil against me so that I will fall. They are the ones that planted something in my compound. All these are just to weaken me. I am not a native doctor. I am a businessman. I sell Okrika. I live in Benin”, he said.
Obieze, also known as Levi Obu Onyeka, was arrested on May 29, 2025, by operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the Gbaji checkpoint along Badagry-Seme Road while attempting to flee the country on a motorcycle.
His arrest followed credible intelligence linking him to kidnapping and alleged r!tual killings in Isiagu Community, Enugu State.
Obieze, said to be a native doctor from Umuajor village in Enugu, was reportedly part of a group of three men who abducted a 13-year-old girl on May 27, 2025, while she was walking with her father to the farm.
The girl was later rescued from a shrine allegedly linked to Obieze.
He was also reported to have buried pregnant women and others alive in the soakaway pit of his house.
According to the NIS, Obieze’s identity was confirmed through a National Identity Management Commission enrollment slip found in his possession.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Immigration Service has handed over Obieze AKA ‘E dey pray e dey show’ to the Lagos State Police Command, along with personal items recovered during his capture at Seme Border.
The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement released via X on Friday, May 30.
