A 13-year-old JSS two student of Government Secondary School
Gboko, Dooyum Moar, has come out and explained his ordeal in the hands of
ritualists and how he escaped from their evil hands in Gboko, Benue State.
Dooyum,
who was also kidnapped along with another female student of his school, said he
was almost beheaded by the ritualist who had disguised himself as a commercial
driver.
He told Vanguard that the man had taken him from Makurdi to
Gboko and he actually thought the man was a good man after he treated him like
a son.
He said: “I
actually wept when I discovered that the driver of the vehicle masterminded our
kidnap shortly after he pretended that he cared for my safety and that of the
girl who was also returning back to school.”
Dooyum thanked God saying it
was due to the almighty he managed to get away from the kidnappers, he said: ”God saved me and the girl.
When they tied us up and took us to a forest to kill us, we started crying and
calling on to God to come and save us.
“Miraculously,
when they took us to where they would behead us, the person they took us to
refused to kill us but asked our captors to take us away and kill us by
themselves.
“When
they took us away, the men who abducted us started quarrelling among
themselves; and at that point none of them could summon the courage to behead
us as they were told.”
The
boy’s father told media men that he had just taken his boy to the motor park in
Makurdi and could have taken him to Gboko but couldn’t due to his busy
schedule.
He said: “Moreover, Dooyum has been
going to school on several occasions unaccompanied without problems considering
that Gboko is not far from Makurdi.
“I
had prayed with him before putting 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 kilometers to Gboko
town, just at Yandev, the driver of the vehicle complained that the vehicle had
developed a fault.
“He
was said to have parked the vehicle, ostensibly in the pretense that the
vehicle was immovable and would require repairs. But moments later it became
obvious that nothing was wrong with the bus.
“The
driver adopted the decoy to ensure that other passengers aborted their trip
with his vehicle in order to provide him a platform to execute his evil plot,
but the God who gives children never allowed it.
“My
son 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.”
He said, 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 up and
presented before an aged women in a shrine.”
According
to him, the woman had wanted to behead them for rituals, but later changed her
mind after she discovered that they were not the category of children that
would suit the sacrifice.
Maor continued: “At this time, my son said they
were crying and begging for mercy; my son said, the woman however handed a
machete to one of the kidnappers and instructed that the two kids should be killed
on their way back.”
However,
along the way, by divine intervention, instead of killing the children, their
abductors engaged each other in a heated argument and they could not be able to
agree among themselves on how to kill the children. Eventually the kidnappers
could not reach a compromise hence the kids were not killed as instructed by
the ritualist.
“While
still engaged in this heated argument, their abductors dumped them at Apir in
the outskirt of Makurdi town were a good Samaritan picked them up and took them
to a safer place at Ikayonge from where I was called,” the father concluded.
He
said he hurried off to Ikpayonge where he met his son crying uncontrollably
after which he narrated his bizarre ordeal.
The
father then contacted the girl’s parents, who came and picked up their
daughter. The parents have reported the incident to the police.
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