A police sergeant from Ibiaku community,
Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ita Ayamba,
has allegedly brutalised and abandoned his eight-year-old daughter,
Goodness Ayamba over her refusal to confess to witchcraft.
Ita was said to have paraded the little
girl along the village streets naked, declaring that Goodness was
responsible for his....
retrogression in the Police Force.
A source and relative of Ita, told our correspondent in Eket on Saturday, on the condition of anonymity, that the police sergeant tortured his
daughter for several hours in an attempt to extract a confession of
being a witch from her.
He said, “When he discovered that
Goodness had passed out, Ita abandoned her, having hit her chest with
the butt of his AK 47 Rifle.
“None of us could go close to Ita to rescue Goodness as he had threatened to shoot anyone that dared.
“I don’t see how a child of that age
could become a clog in the wheel of her father’s progress in the Police
Force. We need to tell each other the truth. Progress in one’s career
depends on the efforts one has made academically.”
Nurses at the hospital said Goodness’ condition was stable but that her bones and chest cavity had been badly damaged.
A group of women lawyers under the aegis
of Federation of International Women Lawyers have said that they would
do everything within their power to ensure that Ita was brought to
justice.
The state director of the organisation,
Mrs. Mary Udonsek, stated that the women would not continue to sit back
and allow men maltreat their children on the guise of labelling them
witches.
Culled - Punch
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Very pathetic...
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