Two teenagers recently escaped death in the hand
of a ritualist inside a forest in Gboko Town, Benue
state Nigeria.
The 13-year-old JSS II student of Government
Secondary school in Gboko and another student
of Gboko High School were kidnapped by a
commercial bike operator in Makurdi and taken to
a forest.
The father of one of the victims, Mr Ephraim Maor
said he took his son to a motor park in Markurdi
where he boarded a vehicle to Gboko to resume
school.
“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 u p. – Mr Maor concluded
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