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Show Ju-Ju Charm Gives Out, User Jailed for Theft LAGOS, NIGERIA. Prof. Yesufu Owo, an Arabic scholar, was sentenced sen-tenced to one year in prison because be-cause his experiment with a iMu charm failed to work. The professor, a gaunt, bespectacled be-spectacled Nigerian with traces ol I Arabian blood, said he was con- vinced he had a ju-ju, given him W ! an Ibo witch doctor, that was a i sure thing." ta It had special mumbo-jumbo make people sleep while burglaries were in progress. He put the ju-ju, an inch-square leather sack full of magic herbs ana stones, around his neck on a string and went out to test its power. I Professor Owo picked the on a door at the residence of wealthy fish merchant. He was a work opening the mercharits strongbox containing about W when the ju-ju went bad. 1 The merchant, his Amazonian wife and two sons grabbed te burglar and flattened him with beer bottle. The court found Wm auilty of housebreaking. |