A private school teacher in Ondo State, Blessing Omowera, was found guilty and jailed for drawing her pupils blood for the ritual.

New Telegraph reported that the incident took place on May 16 at the God Heritage Nursery School and Primary School, Ondo Town in Ondo West Local Government Area. However, it was reported to the police next day.

Blessing Omowera, a national certificate in education (NCE), with her accomplice, Sola Kalejaiye, a teacher at Saint Monica Girls Grammar, and a traditionalist arrested.

They were both arrested in order to cut the pupils' fingers and draw blood from them for ritual purposes.

One of the students was told when she felt the pain after closing her hours, causing one of the parents to go to school with her.
According to the report in the Ondo Police Command, Omowera said she cut the fingernails and blood of two pupils of God's Heritage Nursery and Ondo Primary School and kept it in her pocket.

The pupils whose names are given as wonderful and dominant (surnames retained) are allegedly pupils of primary three of the school. They are both 3 years old.

One of the students was told when she felt the pain after closing her hours, causing one of the parents to go to school with her.