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Though his claim to fame was acting the role of a fetish priest in a Twi movie titled \u2018The Mask,\u2019 actor-comedian Abraham Kofi Davis, well-known in showbiz as Salinko, says he will no longer act such roles again.<\/p>\n

An despite concurring with many, particularly local movie fanatics, who rate him as the best in such roles, Salinko thinks continuing to act as a fetish priest (known in local parlance as Okomfo) he angered some gods and fetish priests who are seriously after his life.<\/p>\n

According to him, no single day passes by in recent weeks without three monstrous \u2018black-and-white\u2019 snakes chasing after him in his dreams, to the extent that he no longer enjoys sound sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cI now can\u2019t sleep at nights because I\u2019ll dream and three black-and-white snakes are chasing me all over,\u201d Salinko told \u2018Spectator Agoro\u2019 on Tuesday, insisting he was still alive because of the prayer support he enjoys from two pastors in Kumasi, namely Mama Vida and Kyiri-Abronsam.<\/p>\n

He attributed his dilemma to a similar \u2018Okomfo\u2019 role he recently played in a movie titled \u2018Diawuo,\u2019 as well as the movie from the market, after a fetish priest based at Sandema in the Northern region had threatened to kill all the actors who featured in the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played the role of an \u2018Okomfo\u2019 who goes by the name Sabaliki but I never knew that was also the name of a deity at Sandema. So the \u2018real\u2019 Sabaliki heard about it and became angry, because he said the movie makes a mockery of him and his shrine.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe therefore warned the producer to withdraw the movie from the market and added that if he (the producer) fails to do so, he (Sabiliki) will kill him (the producer) and every actor in the movie, including myself, Emelia Brobbey, Kwaku Manu and Akrobeto.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the stubborn producer didn\u2019t think about our (referring to the actors) lives and went ahead to release the movie. Now Sabaliko has started working. Only last weekend, Adrobeto drove his car into a ditch on his way to Kumasi from Koforidua.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fetish priest was being granted an interview on a radio station in Kumasi called Kessben Fm on this same movie issue. When he was questioned about whether he would really kill us for imitating him, still stood by his words and he directed the presenter to call Akrobeto and find out about his health.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was then that we realized Akrobeto had been hospitalized for three days for an accident he was trying to keep accident,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Salinko added: \u201cThough Akrobeto has said he doesn\u2019t believe the accident has any mystical connotation, I strongly think Sabaliki\u2019s warnings and threats should be taken serious now, and I don\u2019t want to be his next victim.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said about 800,000 copies of the movie released so far have ran out of stock \u201call because the shrine doesn\u2019t want any disgrace, so it sent his own \u2018ambassadors\u2019 to come and buy all of them from the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to some of the renowned CD and cassette retailers in Kumasi, the likes of Nyankonton and so on, and what they told me is even more frightening. Some said one person would walk to their shops and buy about 15,000 copies of the movie at a go. And you think there is nothing mystical about this?,\u201d he opined.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that some elders were now talking and apologizing to Sabliki \u201cto forgive us for whatever wrong and displeasure we might have caused his shrine through the movie. We did in unintentionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consequently, Salinko \u2013 who has starred as a fetish priest in most local movies since 2002 \u2013 has now made up his mind not to act as a fetish priest again, regardless of the inducement that may come with such roles. \u201cPeople have told me I act well as a fetish priest, but I won\u2019t do it again. My life is also important. I know I\u2019m generally good with comic roles, not necessarily as a fetish priest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI acted as a house-help in \u2018Adults Only,\u2019 a pastor in \u2018Agya Koo In Prison,\u2019 a boy-boy in \u2018Atta Mortuary Man,\u2019 and so on. I can be exploring more of such roles and new ones from today,\u201d he said. Some of his other movies are: \u2018So, so sand so,\u2019 \u2018Sika Kasa\u2019 and \u2018M\u2019etim nea m\u2019etim,\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n

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Though his claim to fame was acting the role of a fetish priest in a Twi movie titled \u2018The Mask,\u2019 actor-comedian Abraham Kofi Davis, well-known in showbiz as Salinko, says he will no longer act such roles again. An despite concurring with many, particularly local movie fanatics, who rate him as the best in such roles, Salinko thinks continuing to act as a fetish priest (known in local parlance as Okomfo) he angered some gods and fetish priests who are seriously after his life. 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