A Nigerian dad who hails from Oberete village in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia
State, Papa Ogada, has dumped his 14-year-old
son in a well.
According to him, the young man is behind his inability to make
progress in life.
Ogada had been complaining that his son was a wizard, who had caused
him serial misfortunes since reuniting with him, after leaving his
mother’s place.
A source told Vanguard “The truth is that the man has
been separated from the boy’s mother. Since the boy came back from his
mother’s place where he lived, the man has been accusing him of being a
wizard.“
He once told us that he had consulted many
spiritualists, who told him that his son is a wizard and is behind the
problems he has had in his business.“ We are not surprised that he went
this far.”
Ogada contacted one of his
friends, who helped him tie up the boy with his school uniform, books
and other property and drove off at about 9p.m. to neighbouring Abiaka
village, where they dumped him in an abandoned well.
According
to a resident of Abiaka village,vwho was part of rescue efforts, “some
of us had already retired for the day when we started hearing shouts and
cries coming from the location of the abandoned well, but we thought
people were fighting.“
As the shouts increased, we summoned
courage and got to the area and discovered that it was coming from the
abandoned well. We got a rope and bucket, threw them inside and the boy
managed to cling to and was pulled out.“
He was already weak with injuries. We thanked God the well had been out of use; he might not have survived.”