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Operatives of Ebonyi State Police Command have exhumed decomposing bodies of two young men, identified as Silas Nkwuda and Chukwuemeka Nwoba, in a shallow grave, who were allegedly abducted and buried alive at Uduku Igbudu forest in Agubia Ikwo Local Government Area of the state.
Seven persons led by two native doctors suspected to be behind the dastardly act, have also been arrested by the Command.
It was gathered that two young men had approached a native doctor to do body bullet proof charms (Odieshi in Igbo language) for them.
The native doctor was said to have turned the two young men to tortoises in the process of doing the charm, but trouble ensued when the second stage of the charms which was to turn them to lions, hit the rock.
The native doctor, it was gathered, had to embark on an emergency journey, apparently to consult a superior power on how to complete the process, but unfortunately, got drowned on his way returning to his shrine.
Sequel to the the death of the native doctor, another native doctor identified as Nwali Nwankwo was invited to the deceased native doctor’s shrine, to covert the two young men who had been turned to tortoises to human beings, but he was unable to do so.
It was further gathered that another native doctor identified as Rose Godwin was invited, but she was also unable to convert the two young men to human beings.
Worried by the long absence of the two young men at home for days, their brothers having got the hint of where they went to, decide to visit the shrine to look for them, only to learn that they were missing.
They, however, reported the matter to the police who raided the shrine, and allegedly killed some tortoises, two of which were said to be the two young men, whose whereabouts were still unknown, as of the time of filing this report.
The Police also arrested some suspects in the shrine who were said to be the boys of the native doctors and have since been charged.
Disturbed by the development, the two native doctors, Messrs Nwali Nwankwo and Rose Godwin, were said to have gone on reprisal by allegedly abducting the four young men who reportedly invited the police for the raid, on 12th of April, 2021, to force their relatives to withdraw the case against their boys, in court.
Two of the four abductees escaped from the abductors then, while the remaining two were allegedly buried alive at Uduku Igbudu forest in Agubia community where their bodies were later recovered in a shallow grave by the Police.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Mrs Loveth Odah,explained that preliminary investigations confirmed that those who would have been buried alive by the native doctors were four but two managed to escape.
She added that when the remains of the victims were exhumed, their eyes were blind folded while ropes were tied to their necks.
She emphasised that autopsy had been conducted on them to ascertain how they were killed.
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