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.
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