See Father who strangles 2 of his children to death and offers them as sacrifice to his dead father

A 35-year-old Thomas Matthew who lived at Mountain village

opposite Dantata Camp, Asokoro, Abuja, claims his late

father initiated him into an occult group. He also claimed that

his father appeared to him and commanded him to sacrifice his

children to him on different occasions.
On October 7th, Mathew

found fault with his wife, Bola, who is deaf and dumb, beat her

up, then chased her out of the house.

   He had previously killed their 2 month old son by strangling him

to death last year and October 7th, 2016, he strangled their his

four-month-old daughter, Mary Matthew to death.

According to the Commissioner of Police, of the Federal Capital

Territory Police Command, Mr. Mohammed Mustafa the

suspect was apprehended this time after his wife made a report

at the Police station that he had killed their baby.

The wife also explained that he had tried to kill their 9 year old

son in the past and luckily she caught him in the act then sent

her son away to her mother's home for him to be taken care of

there.

With the help of a sign language expert, the wife, Bola, recalled

how the suspect tried to kill their first son.

She said:

      “I didn’t know that my husband is a cultist. I remember

when he first tried to kill our first son, I reported the

matter at the Garki Police Station. It was my mother

who took the boy away from the house and he is still

staying with her in Mararaba, Nasarawa State. Then I

had another son last year. When he was two months

old, he became sick. My husband killed him in

September 2015. I didn’t know until he confessed. This

year I had our daughter.

In the night of October 7, 2016, we were together in the

house when suddenly he started beating me. I got

injured and ran away to his elder sister’s house. Before I

came back with his sister, he had strangled our baby to

death. He locked the door and ran away. It was

policemen from Asokoro Police Station, where I reported

the case that broke the door and found the baby. We

rushed the baby to Asokoro General Hospital. The

doctor said the baby was dead. Now I have only one

son left, Josiah Matthew. It was only God who saved me

from the power of darkness.”

When interrogated, Matthew who hails from Kwande Local

Government Area, Benue State said:

“I got married to my wife, Bola, and we were blessed

with three kids. My father is a cultist and he initiated me

into the occult. My father asked me to offer the children

as sacrifice and mark of honour to him, promising he

would make me become rich.

“It was a covenant that nobody knew, even my wife. My

father gave me conditions that if anybody got to know or

I revealed the covenant, that the covenant would be

destroyed. From the time I had my first child, my father

began disturbing me to offer my child to him as a

sacrifice.

     “I tried to kill my first child by strangling, but my wife

caught me and reported to the police and her mother

came to take the child away from the house. He has

been staying with her in Mararaba, Nasarawa State.

Later my father appeared to me after I had my second

son, John, who became sick. I strangled him to death in

2015. On October 7, 2016, my father appeared to me

again that I should kill my only daughter. I was with my

wife and then I started beating her and she ran away to

my elder sister’s house and I locked the door and

strangulated my four-month-old baby girl and she died.

I locked the entrance of the house and ran away. It was

the youth in my area that arrested me and handed me

over to the police. 

  I wanted to kill my younger brother

according to my father’s instruction. My father is still

alive and he is in the village in Benue State.”

The police commissioner who confirmed the incident said the

suspect would be charged to court soon.

Source: Sunday Sun