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Dark rituals carried out by some big Asian businessmen to ensure success

Owl egg rituals
          owl eggs are used to conduct good luck rituals

By DAVID ODONGO

A state of art shopping mall, which was completed a few years ago, could not be launched for months as the owner insisted he was still looking for an owl’s egg to carry out some ‘important’ good luck rituals. The owner, a businessman of Asian origin, was willing to pay as much as Sh1 million to those he sent to hunt for the egg.

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