WICKEDNESS: Bizman Mr Elochukwu Ikwueze, ties apprentice for 10 days without food in Lagos

The victim lying on the bare floor inside the kitchen

When Thankgod Nwabisi, 23, left his village in Adani, Uzo-Uwani L.G.A of Enugu State to serve as an apprentice to an auto -parts dealer in  Ladipo, Lagos, popularly called Elopee, members of his family heaved a sigh of relief, believing that their only child was making a positive headway in life.
Little did they know that the secondary school holder will end up being traumatized by his master.  He was thoroughly  tortured, tied with ropes and dumped inside a room in the master’s house  for about ten days without food or water.  According to him, he was accused of not reconciling their sale’s book properly resulting in the loss of N4,000.
The ugly incident which took place at Number 1, Bisi Yusuf  area,  Kainde in Ayobo, a suburb of Lagos State, aroused the anger of their neighbours who promptly...
alerted policemen on patrol from Ayobo division and they swiftly responded.  The eagle-eyed policemen reportedly broke into the premises after making frantic calls without response while the agonising cries of pain was coming from   one of the rooms in the house.
When they succeeded in gaining entry into the building, they were shocked to see a 23-year-old boy, tied hands and legs and dumped like an animal in one corner of the room.  He had bruises all over his body and his head  was smeared with caked blood.  They quickly rescued the poor boy and while searching the house, they saw a female teenager who claimed to be a relation to the wife of his master and they took all of them to their station for questioning.

His plight
Police sources said while narrating his plight, the boy disclosed that his master, Elochukwu Ikwueze, is from Akama-Oye in Eziagu L.G.A. of Enugu State. According to sources, the boy signed agreement to serve the man for seven years, and he had already served five years. They were living in a two-room apartment at Number 43, Eyegun street, Mafoluku, Lagos before his master got married and moved to his own house at Ayobo. They normally spent weekdays at Mafoluku but always spent weekends in the man’s house at Ayobo.
The boy narrated that on Sunday, 25th of September, while they were at Ayobo, they all embarked on cleaning the house and it’s surroundings in the morning.  They continued with the exercise till evening and when he requested for food, both his master and his wife ignored him.
He said his master later started questioning him about their sales the previous day and he explained everything to him.  “He complained that about N4,000 was missing from a sale of N28,000 we made but I explained everything to him yet, he insisted that the money was missing.  Later, I went into my room .
Few minutes later, he came into the room, armed with a huge stick and started beating me.  He called on my second and both of them tied my hands and legs with a rope, dragged me into the kitchen and locked the place up.  I was  abandoned inside the kitchen for about three days until I noticed that somebody slipped a plate of food through an opening to me.
Hungrily, I ate the food.  I was defecating and urinating inside the same place until seven days later when the pains became unbearable.  I then started crying and raising my voice, calling for help.  It was then that I knew that the small girl living with us, a relation of my master’s wife, was also left in the house and she was the person that slipped food into the kitchen for me.

Culled - Vanguard

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