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In Cross River State, two widows named Mrs. Martina Osom and Mrs. Rose Akom were tortured to death by youths who had accused them of practicing witchcraft.
The event happened early on Saturday, August 27, in the town of Ebbaken in Cross River State's Boje, Boki Local Government Area, roughly 300 kilometers from Calabar, the state capital.
Both ladies were returning from early morning prayers when the youngsters accused them of initiating a member of the community into witchcraft, according to an eyewitness and son-in-law to one of the windows who requests anonymity.
He said:
“They met my mother-in-law within the Church environment. As it was her tradition to weed and clean up the Church vicinity every Saturday immediately after the Morning Mass.
“The youths accused her of initiating a member of the community into witchcraft and she denied the allegation.
“But they went ahead and beat her severely, ordering her to confess that she is a witch. But her passionate appeal to them that she was innocent fell on deaf ears.”
He claimed that Mrs. Rose Akom, the second woman, was forced to join his mother-in-law and subjected to the same torture in order to force her to admit to being a witch.
He went further to say;
“They were both tied with strong ropes and beaten in the rain all through the day until they died,”
“That was what happened in this civilised era in this community,” he lamented.
The perpetrators, according to him, are still at large and unapprehended in the neighborhood.
The spokesperson for the Cross River State Police Command, DSP Irene Ugbo, did not return a number of calls or texts we try reaching him.
Source: Vanguard News
