A 13-year-old Junior Secondary II student of Government Secondary School Gboko, Dooyum Moar, and another female student of Gboko High School, narrowly escaped being beheaded by a ritualist after they were kidnapped by a commercial vehicle operator in Makurdi.
It was gathered from the elated father
of one of the victims, Mr. Ephraim Maor, that he had on Monday morning
taken his son to the Wurukum motor park in Makurdi, where he boarded a vehicle to Gboko to resume school.
He said: “I had put him in the
commercial vehicle which had other passengers and was heading to Gboko, a
trip that was less than 80 kilometres from Makurdi.
“I gathered from my son that when they
were less than five kilometres to Gboko town, at Yandev, the driver said
his vehicle developed a fault.
“He said, at that point, most of the
passengers opted to board other vehicles, but the driver urged my son
and another female student of Gboko High School to wait for another
vehicle he contacted to take them to their destination.
“Few minutes later, a Toyota Hilux van
came and the two of them were asked to board the vehicle, but on getting
to their destination, the driver of the van refused to stop. The
occupants of the van tied up the children and blindfolded them.
“My son said they were taken to a forest
in Gboko where the kids were tied to the ground and presented before an
aged woman in a shrine who wanted to behead them for rituals, but later
changed her mind.
“At this time, my son said they were
crying and begging for mercy, then the woman handed a machete to one of
the kidnappers, instructing that they should be killed on their way
back.
“However, by divine intervention, the
kidnappers did not kill them as instructed, but dumped them at Apir on
the outskirts of Makurdi, where a good Samaritan picked them up.”
The elated father said he had already
reported the matter to the police while the second victim was handed
over to the police in Makurdi, where her parents picked her up.
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
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