Oladele Bakare, 51, is reported to have visited a traditional healer in Ogun state, southwestern Nigeria, in order to take part in the money ritual.
According to Nigeria’s newspaper, Mr Bakare visited 60-year-old herbalist Kareemu Okeyode, and the pair locked themselves inside the healer’s “sacred room”.
Some time later, neighbours expressed concern that the ritual was not over and, unable to gain access to the healer’s house, called the police.
Acting police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told The Nation the naked bodies of the pair were found in the room. He said it was “very likely that they died of suffocation in the room suffused with smoke of burning incense”.
These ritual are also common in Kenya, with several politicians said to have fallen prey to the rituals.
It is traditionally believed that the ritual must involve some form of animal of human sacrifice, and that while it will bring short term financial gain, the process will bring the person involved some form of unspecified “repercussions”.
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