The Nigerian government need to get involved and start arresting people who torture children for allegedly being witches. This is so wrong. Two 8 year old children named Mary Odiong and Ekong Asua (pictured above) were tortured and sent out of their homes in the Okobo LGA of
Akwa Ibom State on the allegation of witchcraft.
According to Punch, the little girl said her relatives came after her after one of her uncles died from AIDS. They blamed her for infecting him with the disease. That's so silly!
"The people in my family called me and started asking me questions whether I was a witch and why I killed my uncle. I told them that I did not know anything about what they were talking about. They started beating me. They hit me with cutlasses. They cut my buttocks with knives. After the beating became too much, I lost consciousness. Later, I woke up to find myself in a bush. I have been living on the streets since last month without food and shelter.” the girl told a Punch correspondent.The other victim said he was blamed for his parents death.
Can't the Akwa Ibom state government do something to stop this injustice?"My uncles told me that they went somewhere to find out why my parents died. They said they were told that I killed both of them through witchcraft. They tied my hands and started beating me up with native sugarcane and asked me to confess. When I insisted that I knew nothing about the death of my parents, they took me to a bush, where I met Odiong. Both of us have been living on the streets since then,” he said.
74 comments:
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Na wao for this people, this children no small for una eyes?
This is wickedness oh.
Been crious, the government shud do something... Been humorious, witches united...
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OMG! Akwa Ibom people and this their erroneous belief.
When parents fail in their responsibilities, they blame poor innocent children for their misfortunes.
Many children have been labeled witch there and some killed in the process.
The government of that sate must be proactive in tackling this issue.
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This is a total stupidity from parent who beating them up.
Chaii...wonders shall neva end
linda welcome back, dont wanna knw what happened but at leastit didnt beat you...
What kind of rubbisb is this Akwa Ibom all the time, what kind of people do we have as human beings now adays
How cruel! Wondering when Nigerians and Africans will be liberated from believes like this.
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Nawaa for some family.......so if really de are witches, can't de help dem get delivered? Tufia!
This is so serious, may God hv mercy (eleyele1@yahoo.com)
Nawa oh. They should question their uncles abeg, they know what's going on. Y torture innocent kids like animals. Mtcheww
Instead of torturing and throwing this girls out, if they are witches indeed then their family should take them for deliverance na. Abi? There is no better option
Haba! That's gruesome
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my god what kind of wickedness is this. They are thousands of people out there looking for fruit of the womb, and others treat children like this. May God help us all.
Wickedness i think there is something mischievous in this
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At this age and time people are this naïve?People will always attatch spiritual connotation to every act.Does that mean natural deaths have become extinct in our society? I weep for our ignorance!
Kinda hilarious!!!
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Just imagine...lindodo d people beatin d Children are d witches dem selves...mtcheeeeew
Well said...the government needs to get involved..
maybe the govt are in support thats why nothing has been done.
Air force chiefs in action. There are real cases of witchcraft though.
Nawa oo,God hve mercy!
is too bad dat Nigerians like abusing children if it in abroad no one trys dat,d government have to help d children..Goldensarah9@yahoo.com
This is mean. This acts is just too barbaric and should be stopped ASAP.
Not only are they starving and homeless, they are also at risk of being sexually molested or killed. Y are people so callous.
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Hmmmm na wa oooo.....they should stop purnishing these innocent children naa....buh linda u never can tell cos I once had a cousin about 9yrs who told me that they (her colleagues) use to come call her in d nyt when we are all asleep n that they sit in circles n eat on cocoyam leaves...I raaaaaan ehn....
Werey people,dats how they are o,but we all know there's no where such does not exist,these ones are just emere children.
I don't know why akwa ibom people so much believe in witch craft,tufiakwa ha.
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This is too much, how will they accuse 8 yrs old child for infecting someone with AIDS. May God 4give dem.
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Things like this suppose to be things of the past i swear... God help those poor kids though.....
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my God this took me back to memory lane,i was accuse by by stepmum for being a witch and the reason she chouldn't give my father a child,and my father believe her.no one whoud take me in,not even my mother.for years i was torture and beaten,thrown out on the street,i chouldn't finish primary school,i was rape at 12yrs old,then a year later got kidnap by a stranger who only God knows his intentions for me.he beat me to the point i almost die.till today i still carry to huge scar on my left breast that i got from the beaten i was beaten by this stranger.but some how God did not leave the battle for me.can't say evrytin i went tru but i thank God evryday for savin me.now my dad and stepmum is late,rest thier souls,and my mum.well let's just say we are not best of frends.i've travel out of niaja for two years now and looking back all this yrs i can't help but to tank GOD for my life.so i pray to that same God almighty who save and care for me to do the same for this two kids.may they neva go tru what i went tru in jesus name.Amen.
Pple hv become their own gods by takin law in2 their hands!
If d little girl uncle could not seat down wit his zip up and den ends up wit HIV how is dat mary's doing?and who on dis earth likes been an orphan?dat d little gal will b beating up 4 killing her parents both families should b drag to court and justice should take its place d children should b taking care of by d state gvt.
Bulshit .
Dey shuld do sumfin ASAP.gosh dos kids r pweety to young for such allegations.
Omg! Wht sacrilege! ! Arant nonsense! Bullshit! Haba!! Dis is so unthinkable n unimaginable!God hv mercy
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Chai... People eh
Those their relative suppose to be arrested or infact take them to rehabitation center , there brain is touching.poor girls i pity them
This is totally unacceptable. How do u know if someone is a witch? Is it by beating or sending them out of d house? Assuming these children are witches, how where they initiated? Somebody somewhere mush have initiated them. My advise is for their parents to take them for deliverance possibly in Mountain of Fire& Miracles Ministry. Deliverance is d only way out not by beating them.
Too bad seriously..so na wicthes dey giv AIDS nw abi
Ignorance & some "Men of God" are destroying lives in Africa.
Our govt should really do something abt it indeed.
The people involved need to be tried and punished with stiff penalties
Haba!! Little kids? Wat in God's name is wrong wiv dese communities? Y shld they isolate kids as young as dis in a bush all on the allegation of witchcraft...?
It's so unfair..@least dia r gud churches dat conduct deliverance evn if the kids r possessed which is highly possible...buh tormenting/torturing them is wickedness of the highest order
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Are you kidding me? Dis children are too small to be going through this,let the government do something about this fast,and to think they are living in the bush,dats wickedness no matter what could have happened!!! Lauhrex
Too bad..what a life..apart from government, can't individuals around there do something to help those kids..guess everyone believes they are witches..May God help them in Jesus Name.. Amen
How did the children get the witchcraft? Just looking for an excuse to murder children
How did they know they were witches?
The so called uncles labeled them witches to throw them away and inherit their parents' properties including lands.
We're living in a wicked world
child abuse..Goldensarah9@yahoo.com
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I don't know if people are aware of the fact that there are more witchcraft in akwa ibom that any state or country I ever known,majority of them are under-age,they practice witchcraft like they are in schl,estimated 2.5millions witches.
Akpabio won't do anything to these ooo he is busy going for TAN rallies up and about. Msheeeewwww
Linda no dey ever post my comment...its not fair o
y nt take the kid 2 the church instead of torturing, very very bad!!
I was once a victim of dis, ma step mother almost made ma took our lives. Thank God 4 God.
You only see child witch/wizard in poverty stricken homes. God dey.
Linda please marry aye dee he did it for love.....please
I don't know why things like this happens in akwa ibom! They are so fetish that even the littlest things are chucked up to witchcraft and wizardry! And most times the victims of this witch hunt (pun intended) are usually kids!
By God's grace,they will get help soon.poor little innocent kids.very sad.
Dis is unacceptable government should please do something
Why cant they catch this big ogas and leave these innocent children?
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Most it be akwa ibom every time?
They maybe ooo
God dey sha..
Illiteracy is what the villagers are suffering from.....
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