JUST IN; Horror as suspected ritualists roast ten [10] girls to death
An unending show of horror is playing out at Ogoja in the Northern part of Cross Rivers State as ritualists have laid siege on the community, killing no fewer than 10 girls for various sacrifices in the last one month.
Sources said in the past three weeks, bodies of young girls with their private parts removed and tongues cut off have reportedly been found along the Monaya hospital road in the outskirts of the town.
It was also gathered that some bodies of young ladies were seen floating on the Monaya River before they were recovered by residents of the community.
Some of the residents of the community attributed the unending massacre to the dominance of yahoo boys in the community, while others say the ongoing process for the election of a House of Representatives member for the constituency may be responsible.
A resident of the community simply identified as Mgbeje was quoted by Vanguard to have said: “Just yesterday, Monday, a girl was spotted on a motorcycle and the way she was sitting with her head resting on the back of the okada rider, people suspected that something was wrong and went after the okada man who was riding very fast. They managed to stop him while trying to find out what was wrong with the girl who was obviously hypnotized, the okada man sped off.”
He said within the period, two girls, who bargained and collected the sum of 400,000 naira from a client in one of the hotels in the area for him to suck their breasts, ended up dying after the breasts grew very large and painful.
Another resident, Martina Oko said okada riding has been banned at night in the area, because it is at that time that the ritualists operate most.
“We do not know if these ritualists are killing girls because of the election or to make yahoo money but the number of girls that have fallen victim is very high,’ she explained, adding that: “It is the police that often go to remove the bodies of these girls where they were dumped, but they have not been able to lay a trap to arrest these people or even accost one of them and this is quite worrisome because these killings have been going on for weeks.”
Confirming the incident, the Cross River Police Command spokesman, Ms Irene Ugbo, said the police are on their toes trying to track down perpetrators of the killings.
She, however, said that “Security is everybody’s business and as such people should volunteer and avail police with information because those doing the killings live among them or lodge in hotels there.”
