TikToker Wasilat Olalere has claimed she was pressured into making a false confession that she fell ill after recording a video related to the Oloolu masquerade in Ibadan, Oyo State
Speaking during an interview with an Islamic cleric in a video that surfaced online on Wednesday, Olalere denied ever seeing the Oloolu masquerade or becoming sick, insisting that the claims she made in a previous video were made under duress.
She explained that the clip she uploaded on TikTok only showed vehicles belonging to the Amotekun Corps and residents waiting for the annual Oloolu procession.
“I recorded Amotekun vehicles that were parked and people who were in front of our house waiting for Oloolu masquerade. I just captioned the video that Oloolu was around Atolu and that people should watch their movement so as not to come in contact with him.
“When I posted the video, people started reaching out to me that I should pull it down. I did immediately. I didn’t know that many had saved it,” she said.
Olalere alleged that despite deleting the video, men she identified as members of the Oloolu traditional institution, popularly known as Sokoti, later stormed her shop, threatened her and took her away.
She claimed they told her the Olubadan wanted to see her and warned that she could be jailed. According to her, she was detained at Agungun Police Station and released on bail on Saturday before being taken to Ode Aje for what she described as traditional cleansing rites.
According to Olalere, her family was instructed to provide items including a goat, a red cloth and a blade before the ritual was carried out.
“They told my mum to get a goat, red cloth and blade because she was the one that would scrape off my hair. They put the goat on my neck, told me to sit on a mortar, then killed the goat on my head and instructed me to let the blood dry completely on me.
> “After that, they recorded me and told me to say that since I saw Oloolu, I had been unwell and bleeding all over my body. They also forced me to say that I was the one who came for cleansing.
> “Nothing happened to me. I didn’t see any blood, not even my menstrual period. They called my husband in and collected N400,000 after we bought all the things for the traditional rites,” she alleged.
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