In what would come across as a really shocking development, a mob has attacked and cruelly murdered two men over witchcraft.
Two
elders of Ikot Effanga, in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State,
have been killed for alleged witchcraft, leaving residents of the community
totally stunned.
The
two men were killed and their bodies set ablaze by a mob over the death of a member of the community, Bassey Effiom.
According
to Vanguard, the two men, Chief Bassey Ekwe, 69, and Mr Asuquo Effiong, 72, met
their fate following instruction from a herbalist allegedly invited to the
community to find out the cause of the death of Effiom.
Obori
Bassey, son of one of the slain men, Bassey Ekwe, narrated the events that led
to the killing of the elders: “The whole issue started when Effiom died and
some villagers said his death was
mysterious; so they invited a native
doctor to find out the cause of the death.
The native doctor told them it
was my dad and Asuquo who killed the man through witchcraft”
According
to him, the native doctor, holding a live cock, led some residents who carried
the corpse on their shoulders on a
parade round the village while pouring libation and invoking the spirits of the
dead.
“On
getting to our compound, they started dancing and my father, who didn’t know
what was happening, came out and curiously asked what was wrong only for the native
doctor to point at him and said he was one of the persons who used witchcraft
to kill Effiom”.
The
son narrated that the villagers accompanying the native doctor immediately
pounced on the old man and hacked him
to death and went ahead to set him ablaze.
After
that, the mob went and grabbed
a second man also accused by
the native doctor and set him ablaze too.
The
herbalist, currently in detention at Cross River State Police Command
Headquarters, Diamond Hill, Calabar, told
Sunday Vanguard that he only went for the burial of Effiom, who was his
in-law when the cock was given to him by some villagers and that he never made
any accusation against anyone, neither was he part of the mob that killed the
men.
“I was given the cock by some of the villagers
and I was on my way home at about 10 am when the police held me that I was a
herbalist and had caused the killing of people”, he told Sunday Vanguard.
Mr
Jimoh Ozo Obeh, Cross River State Police Commissioner, said the man will appear
in court soon to answer charges related to stirring up a mob to cause murder.
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