In Akwa Ibom, a of two,John Friday Akpan accuses his children for taking his money to their master in witchcraft coven so h decided to luck them in a hut without food and water.
According to reports by the Child’s Right And Rehabilitation
Network(CRARN), Akpan who tagged his two children, Elisha
Friday Akpan ,12, and Esther Friday Akpan ,6, as witches
and wizards heeded the advice of a herbalist, Dr. Okokon in
committing the act, the Nigerian Eye reports.
Their father accused them of taking his money to ‘their
master in the witchcraft coven and as punishment, he
decided to nail his two children to a cross, lock them in a
dark, thatch hut without food for weeks.
Recounting her ordeal at the hands of her father said: “Our
sister, Peace usually bring us water inside the hut when our
father and our mother had gone out,” Esther said.
“My mother (stepmother), said the woman who used to live near
our house in Akpabuyo gave us food and she put something
(witchcraft spell) in the food and when we ate it we changed to
bird at night and took our fathers money to ‘our master’ in the
witchcraft world,” Elisha who is a JSS one student said.
According to the kids, Elisha was alleged to have taken
4,000 Naira while Esther took 2,000 Naira.
In a related development, thousands of stigmatized ‘witch
children’ have found refuge at CRARN center, in Akwa Ibom.
The children were branded as witches by church ministers
and have been cast out by their families and shunned by
society.
One of them is 6-year-old Israel Effiong from Ikot Uso
Ekong, Eket, who was accused of being responsible for his
father’s illness. Fearing for his life, he ran away and hid in a
bush for a year before he was rescued by Edoho, a volunteer
with the organisation.
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