70-year-old herbalist with 57 wives; sacks 8

(ERIC GOSSIP) — A 70 year old herbalist, Simon Odo
 Okoro a.k.a Onuwa, has divorced his 57 wives. The
 herbalist who  vowed not to marry again has accused
 some of his male  children of allegedly sleeping with
 some of them.

 However, Onuwa, who calls himself King of Satan 
broke his vow not marry again by quickly remarrying 
one of the youngest of his divorced wives, an 18 year 
old Chidinma.

Speaking with the 18 years old lady, she told The ERIC GOSSIP that she is truly in love with the 70 years old herbalist. 

Onuwa said that the new wife whom she divorced 
pleaded with him to marry her so that she could take
 care of him  as an old man.

“The girl who lured me to marry her returned from the
 United States. She told me to marry her so that she 
would take care of me as an old man. She is from 
Enugu State. However, a month after the marriage 
was consummated, she told me to sack the youngest 
one, Chidinma and I became furious with her because
 that was not why I married her. I beat her and she left,” 
he said.


Criminal act

On the allegation that some of his children (names withheld)
not only slept with some of his wives but planned to
 kill him, he said that he would disown any of his sons
 involved in criminal activities.”

Onuwa married the 57th wife in November 2015 and 
vowed not to marry again, having had a fair share of
 women in his life. Chidinma was married from Okutu, 
in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. Odo, 
also known variously as Onuwa, King Solomon of Africa
 or King of Satan had also gather been married to 69 
women but some of them had earlier died.

Augustina Odo (nee Asogwa) and Virginia, nee Mogbo 
from Oraifite were among the dead ones.

However, Odo spoke in an interview with the South East
 Voice at his palatial home at Aji, Enugu Ezike in Igboeze
 North Local Government Area of Enugu State. Onuwa 
who was armed with an Onward note book where names 
of his wives and over 200 children were listed according 
to their dates of birth said that his first son, Emeka was
 born on December 15, 1969. “I was born in 1947 on the
 day they had an eclipse of the sun and the moon. There
 was darkness in the afternoon on the day I was born. 

I was the only son of my parents. I was baptism as a 
Christian in the Catholic Church and even became a
 mass servant under Rev Father Desmond McGlade.
 I, however, became a herbalist because of circumstances beyond my control.

As I said, I was the only son of my parents but because
 some of his relations wanted to take over his landed 
property, they poisoned me. I contracted tuberculosis 
and had to be treated for years. At a point, I was even 
unable to walk for about five years because I became 
lame. I ran to Ondo State in the South West, where I
 trained to become a herbalist at the age of 15, before returning to the village. I married 15 wives when my 
father was alive and the situation prolonged his life. 

He died in 1992 at the ripe old age of over 90 years. My 
first son

 has seven children and four grandchildren. Any of my
 children who chooses to become a Christian is free to do 
so, provided he/she must become a Catholic. I don’t like 
the Pentecostal churches.”

On feeding of his large family, Onuwa said, “People think 
that i feed many of them but this is not true. Most of my children are grown up. The boys among them usually 
marry and go to their own houses just like the girls who 
marry and follow their husbands to their places. However, 
my wives cook food for the whole family in turns. For
 example, if it is the turn of Adama or Omada to cook, she would invite five of her colleagues to assist her in cooking. 

One woman cooks for everybody in the house at a time
 but my other wives would always assist such a person.”

Asked if any of his sons has taken after him as a herbalist,
 he said, “I will not encourage them to do so. I don’t want 
my sons to take after me because some of them will do 
bad things with my medicine. As a herbalist, I have never
 killed anybody or thought of evil against anybody but I do
 not trust that my children would be upright like me. That 
is why I will not encourage them to inherit my medicine but 
I may be question them to some of my younger children, 
not the old, Green ones.”

Meanwhile, it was learnt that although Onuwa abhorred
 seeing his children attend churches other than the 
Catholic Church, seven of them were ordained pastors 
of the Lord’s Chosen Church. Hitherto, some of them
 attended Catholic and Anglican churches while many of
 them took after their father in his business.