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"We have to respect their rules and ways of life. Since Kabaka went to Namibia, many people have turned the country into... a market where they enter as they wish," he said.

Since leaving politics, Mr Kabaka has faced repeated assassination attempts.

Mr Kabaka claims he was asked to mobilise cult groups to help win elections.

Tony Kabaka, a self-confessed "cultist" and member of the NBM, spent years working for the government in Benin, up until 2019.

"If you sat me down and say, can you identify Black Axe in government, I will identify," said Tony Kabaka, who told the BBC he had survived repeated assassination attempts since leaving governmnet and whose house and front gate are littered with bullet holes.