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Friday, 28 October 2016

Photos: Akwa Ibom man accuses his children of witchcraft, nails them on the cross in Calabar

In another gut wrenching and bizarre revelation by the Child's Right And Rehabilitation Network(CRARN)  a 40year old man, John Friday Akpan from Akwa Ibom State, resident in Calabar the Cross River State capital, is now explaining to the police how he heeded the advice of a herbalist, "Dr." Okokon and eventually tagged his two children, Elisha Friday Akpan and Esther Friday Akpan as witches and wizards.



An act reminiscent of the nailing of Jesus Christ on the Cross, Friday Akpan subjected his two children aged, 12 and 6 respectively, to harrowing treatment by nailing them to a plank in shape of a cross and locking them up in a dark, thatch hut without food for weeks. He claimed that the children took his money to their "master in the witchcraft coven and therefore deserve no mercy". He told the police.

Following weeks starvation, the two children whose emaciated and dirty physical appearance replicate the gory images of starving children in famine-ravaged Somalia and war-torn Sudan said they survived by water which was supplied to them by one of the man's kids from another woman.

"Our sister, Peace usually bring us water inside the hut when our father and our mother had gone out". Esther said.

Their father, the kids said, used to reside in Akpabuyo, Cross River State, Nigeria with the family where he sent them to a private school, Regent Nursery and Primary School, Ikot Nkanda but when their mother died and the man took another wife, Iquo, the story changed.

"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 of Regent said.

According to the kids, Elisha was alleged to have taken 4,000 Naira while Esther took 2,000 Naira and that angered their father and step-mother who started beating them severely and denying them food "because they said we took their money to our master in the witchcraft coven. This is something I don’t even understand"

47 comments:

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Eddy Ogbunambala said...

Heartbreaking

Unknown said...

Biko wats dis?

JEMBETE(KEY-POINT) said...

FUCKING IDIOTS

Unknown said...

Jesu!

Anonymous said...

How terrible people could be.

Unknown said...

D father of dis children don't deserve to live..

Unknown said...

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Alloy Chikezie said...

Oh sweet Jesus!

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Unknown said...

Idiot father..wen u don't hv money to care for ur kids u label dem witch.

OSINANL said...

NA WAOH!

Anonymous said...

This is barbaric..how do people have the heart to hurt a child. May they know no peace for this vicious act.

Unknown said...

SO BETWEEN YOU AND THEM NOW, WHO IS WITCHCRAFTING?









AUNTY LINDA 👩

BONARIO NNAGS said...

Akwaibom state government should do something about this ugly trend. This is becoming alarming.



. ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Kponskii said...

Just imagine!

ifeoma's verdict said...

Akwa ibom and witchcraft story. Why wont they nail them to the cross when they got them on a platter of gold, some people hav spent millions looking for just a child. Life is just not fair.

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmm,pls we need that white woman to come save them ooooo...naija ppl sef

KACHI said...

Dear Linda,

I plead with you in the name of God to do everything humanly possibele to see that these children gets the justice they deserve.Those wicked and evil heartless parents must not go unpunished.my God!!! this is barbaric!wickedness at its peak! no human deserve this kind of treatment.pls those evil parents pay for thier wicked act.

Babyboo said...

My heart is broken at this sight. Especially the little one. I can't believe I'm actually crying. Why are people wicked?

Unknown said...

Omg... How cruel!!!Hope the govt puts a stop to this barbaric act!!! #evil

Unknown said...

a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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When a country is slave to religion what do you expect......
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

JOYOUS said...

I THOUGHT THESE THINGS HAPPEN ONLY IN THE MOVIES O? GOD HAVE MERCY

Anonymous said...

It goes beyond money, it's Nigerian mentality, to take your anger and frustration at life out on the vulnerable, and since everyone is doing it, that reinforces the behaviour, and it gets worse until someone intervenes.

Unfortunately, good people won't say anything, in case they get labelled or affected too, often, people are in denial...they don't want to believe the abusers are guilty or bad, which means wicked people, keep getting away with murder.

It's a vicious cycle, and everyone suffers in the end.

When you read some hateful comments posted on this blog for instance, as a behaviourist, it's easy to tell that even those who condemn these very acts, are hypocritical, because they harbour hateful tendencies, that will either reinforce or facilitate the abuse of others.

Hessaawards2019.com said...

Very strong madness

Na me talk am!

Long Live Lib!!!

Chizzy Liz said...

*************************wait.... Unu asi di na ndi akwa ibom si ebee Put uwa?????? I wanto knw??????

CHERYL (aka FROM GLORY to GLORY) said...

And those legislathieves are just eating Nigerians money instead of enacting strict laws against child maltreatment. It's really unfortunate! Wat is calabar n akwa ibom state governors and their house of asseembly members doing about this incessant incidences of child maltreatment in those states, nothing!. It's really sad.




Long Live LIB

Unknown said...

This Akwa Iboms are very ignorant

Anonymous said...

This is wot religion brings....

Joyous Babe Lindaikeji First Cousin said...

omg! this is pure madness.

Joyous Babe Lindaikeji First Cousin said...

omg! this is pure madness.

Anonymous said...

THERE IS GOD

Unknown said...

May God provide good woman as step moms,all have been reading concerning this kind of tale Na steps moms,be the koko.

Chioma okeke said...

The government should please do something about these because it's becoming something else.

Unknown said...

what's with the branding of kids in calabar and akwaibom?
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Unknown said...

Nawa ooo. wonders shall never end

Anonymous said...

Yeye dey smell you want tell us u go school! Okay we don hear!

Ceee9ja Admin said...

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Anonymous said...

No, I didn't "go" school... I was eating agbalumo by the gutter, where your mother and father had the shack they raised you in.

Anonymous said...

When they say Africa is a Jungle not the environment ,but the inhabitants .[ THE PEOPLE]

Anonymous said...

I guess there are more kids dat are stil in danger pls govt shld do sumtin dis is painful I can't stop crying plsssssssss

Dr olaspecial said...

Upon how much Godswill spent on reorientation of his ppl concerning this witchcraft matter.

Anonymous said...

This has nothing to do with religion. Didnt you read where they said it was a native doctor that said that the children are witches? It is not muslim or chrstian that said it. A native doctor said it

Anonymous said...

Native doctors worship idols. They are not religious people. They dont worship God, they worship idols. So this has nothing to do with religion. Dumb brain!

Anonymous said...

See how thin they now look without food. What if the native doctor was lying? Even if they are witches, cant you take them to church for deliverance? Why must you allow them to die slowly? It is this kind of treatment that makes children abandon their parents when their parents are old because this maltreatment will never leave this mind of this children when they grow up.

Anonymous said...

Lol, what a whole load of bullshit. What's a religion, if not the belief and reverence for otherworldly entities? Did you go to school or are you just simple?

People arguing with no credentials, when they don't even know their left from right.

Keep following your cult blindly, come on here to embarrass yourself.

Anonymous said...

Blaming pastors for mistreating your own children is a nonsense excuse. This man should be punished severely and may God bless these children, they have been through a lot.

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