A family has
been thrown into deep sorrow as cultist pluck out 7-year-old boy’s eye
identified as Monday Ajeh, during an invasion of Agaza village in the Keana
Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
Narrating his
son’s predicament on Tuesday, the 47-year-old father of the victim, Mr Agadi
Ajeh, said he was sleeping at home with members of his family when he heard his
son screaming for help.
According to
him, he discovered that Monday had been abducted and taken away by his
assailants around 1.00am on Thursday, Punch Metro reports.
He added that
a search party was immediately raised to look for the boy, who was subsequently
found in a pool of blood with his eyes missing from their sockets.
Agadi added
that the kidnappers had blindfolded the victim, tied his two legs and hands and
removed his eyes, leaving him lifeless on the ground.
The shocked
father said:
“Who could
have done this to my son at that time of the night? They kidnapped him from my
residence, while I was sleeping, and took him about two kilometres away from
the village.”
On sighting
the attackers, Agadi explained that his son shouted for help, but he was
abducted by the suspected cultists.
Confirming
the incident in an interview in Lafia, the Nasarawa State Police Command’s
Public Relations Officer, ASP Samaila Usman, said the victim had earlier
reported to his parents that some people threatened to kidnap and remove his
eyes, but the parents ignored the complaint.
Usman said
the command had already deployed its men in the scene of the incident to ensure
that those behind the heinous act were arrested and prosecuted.
Usman stated,
“The parents
ignored the complaint by their son; they did not show any concern or report the
matter to the police on time. And some weeks later, while on their farm, some
unknown persons kidnapped their son and took him away to a distance of about
two kilometres before they removed his two eyes and left the body.
“It was the
following day that the parents reported the matter to the police station in
Keana Local Government Area of the state.”
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