A middle aged woman called Idenyi Abbah at Anumajogwu, in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State has killed her own daughter due to her quest for more children.
Idenyi who had just one issue for the husband, out of envy of the arrival of a second wife consulted a herbalist at Ikem in Anambra State, who had asked her to sacrifice her only daughter to the Awube goddess.
Confessing her deeds to the police at a police station in Ukwo, Idenyi said she had gone to different herbalists and native doctors in search of another child after five years of no child, and had been told by different seers that her problem was her only daughter. ” I have been to every part of the country, searching for pastors and native doctors that could help me out of this problem, but have been told almost the same story, that my only daughter was Ogbanje and had blocked my womb.
“I had tried to avoid the solution I got from one native doctor at Ikem, until my husband opted for another wife. This move had forced me to do the wish of the gods by killing Enyanwu.” Idenyi had affirmed.
Idenyi is said to have allegedly taken Enyanwu, her eight-year old daughter to a nearby river around 12am with some un-identified young men who had raped her 8 year old daughter before finally sacrificing her to the supposed goddess, confirmed one Mr. Okpe, who witnessed the brutal killing of the girl in his hideout around the Awube river where he was on a night hunting.
While expressing his disappointment, he also regretted that he could not do anything to stop the killing of the innocent child due to the number of the young men involved in the act, and the number of intimidating weapons they were carrying.
According to him ” They put their knives through her neck after the mother had said some incantation. They also raped her.”
Mr. Okpe who reported the matter to the village head the same night also said that the entire community, including the police stormed the scene of the incident the next morning where the girl’s body was. Recovered from a grave around an unexpected location in the river bank.
Our correspondent had learnt that no such incident had happened in the community since the era of Christianity.
Police had said that idenyi will soon be charged to court.
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