Vigilante allegedly kills three for mobbing witch doctor in Rivers

A Local security outfit, Ahoada Security Planning Advisory Committee (ASPAC), in Ahoada East council of Rivers State, has allegedly killed three people for mobbing a witch doctor.

The Guardian gathered that the native doctor was caught burying a three-month-old baby at the midnight in Edeoha community of the state, but suddenly disappeared when angry youths attempted to mob him.

An eyewitness, who gave her name simply as Bidemi, said following a tip-off, the local vigilante members arrived at the scene and started shooting sporadically with claims that the suspect was in charge of preparing their amulets.
 

“When I got there, I saw more than one hundred pictures, different numbers of people’s pictures, there was a particular chain that had different sizes of padlocks, all locked. There was another section that had a woman’s stool with a binding chain and another side had different pictures all chained together. After the boy’s revelation, they dug up the dead three-month-old baby, which the doctor used to do the sacrifice this morning.
 
“I heard he was confessing but at a point, he disappeared. I don’t know the mother of the baby, maybe he got the baby from somewhere far away because nobody has come to lay claims to the dead baby.”
 
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omoni confirmed the development.