- Pix above(r-l): The victim and suspect used for the act
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An 11-year-old boy has been buried alive at Apamsede, in Kogi State on instruction of his stepmother for stealing her N1,000.
But luckily for him, passers-by rescued him same day on Wednesday after his stepmother had instructed her son, who led him to the bush at the Silo community in Zango Daji, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State, where he carried out the dastardly act.
The stepmother was said to have instructed her 19-year-old son, Goodness, to punish the victim in line with age-old tradition.
In meting the punishment to the 11-year-old, his 19-year-old stepbrother took him into the bush where he overpowered and allegedly buried him alive.
When NAN visited Apamsede community on Saturday, it was revealed that the father of the victim, Mr Oshodi had absconded and that when the incident happened the father of the victim was at home.
The district head of Apamsede, Malam Garba Ahmed, told NAN that on the day of the incident, the father of the 11-year-old boy, the stepmother and the stepson were summoned to the palace of the traditional ruler on what led to such act.
“When they came to the chief’s palace, Mr Oshodi, the father of the 11-year-old boy was present at the palace when both the stepson and stepmother gave reasons for their action,” the district head explained.
“The boy’s father probably ran away when we insisted on inviting the police to handle the matter.
“The stepmother and her son, Goodness, had confessed to committing the dastardly act.
“But the traditional council of our community has decided not to harbour such people in our land.
“Once the stepmother and her son finished facing the wrath of the law, we shall banish them from this land.
“But before we banish them, we will ensure that the family offer a sacrifice to cleanse the land,” he said.
NAN reports that the police team who took the boy’s stepmother to their house in Apamsede on Saturday morning discovered that the shovel and cutlass allegedly used in burying the victim were missing.
Although the house was under lock and key, the police team observed that there were some changes in the environment unlike what they saw on Friday during their visit.
“Somebody must have entered this your house. Yesterday, when we came here, the house was locked and the window curtain inside wasn’t down as we can see now.
“Some of the things that we met outside here yesterday are no more here. Somebody must have come around here,” the police observed.
The police who had to break the lock and key to gain entrance into the house when the woman claimed that she had no key to the house, alleged that most of the things inside the house had been taken away.
The Police Public Relation Officer, Kogi Command, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, had told NAN that Oshodi travelled and that the police were waiting for him to return for his own side of the story.NAN/SHARE THIS
