Mr. Esau Ihemeje,a block moulder and farmer who hails from Ndiolumbe, Nvosi in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government of Abia State was attacked at his residence around 4am last month by some acclaimed vigilante members over alleged witchcraft.

According to reports,he was in front of his compound around 4:00am; one Chisom Agbara led some other men into his compound. He demanded to know why they came at that time to his place and they told him that they were vigilante members. He asked them whether it was in his compound they were deployed to watch over that day. He told them that if there was anything like vigilante group that all members of the community should be made to be aware through a town crier.According to him,it was not just one family (NWAGBARA FAMILY) that should form such a group in the community.They accused him of witchcraft activities and questioned why he should be out by 4am in front of his compound.

As they were still talking,one of them by name Monday Nwankpa held him and was assisted by Chijioke Igbodiegwu Agbara, Chisom Agbara, Ibe Agbara, Uchendu Agbara, Chisom Marcus Ihemeje. They carried him to another compound and threatened to deal with him.They said it had been a long time they’ve wanted to get at him. As they carried him to the compound, they tied his hands and legs with robe, beat him with clubs and inflict injuries on him with machete.At a point, they wanted to use the machete to cut off his two legs, but God saved him but the deep cuts are still there on his both legs. (Pictures Attached)

As they were beating him and using the machete to inflict injuries on him, they said they will kill him because he is a witch. As they beat me, they took him to the village hall. Community women joined in beating him,calling him a witch and making jest of him. Before this incident, these people went to his farmlands and poured raw acid on his crops,killing all his vegetables and other aquatic lives,all in a bid to deal with me.

They took him back to his house, forced the door open and destroyed all his house hold properties and made away with his N580, 000.00 which is his savings. After destroying his properties, they made him unclad and carried him to his maternal home at Obingwa Local Government. His maternal relations objected to the action of his people and insisted they should take him back to his home. According to them, what they did was an infringement of human rights. They argued that a married man is not supposed to be carried back to his maternal home in that manner and assaulted for no reason without the consent of the traditional ruler . When he went back to his community, the guys used machete to pursue him around, insisting they will kill and eat his meat and nobody will come for him. The people that did this to him are family members of Agbara as alleged by the victim.Prior to this, they used the front of his compound as dump site. When he complained, they said he should give them N20, 000 with drinks which he did. He said he had not reported to the traditional ruler of the community HRH (Eze) Godwin Ogbonna because the people had not allowed him to return to their community.

Before taking him out of the community, they wrote things he should buy before he can return to the village. These include giving them 9 cartons of beer, 9 crates of malt, 9 cartons of Legend beer, 3 bottles of hot drinks, 3 jars of palm wine, 36 pieces of cola nut, 36 alligator pepper and a fine of N20, 000. They forced him to sign an agreement.


An NGO by named Foundation For Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development(FENRAD) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police for an attempted murder of the victim. The NGO urged the IGP to arrest and prosecute Chijioke Igbodiegwu,Agbara Ibe,Monday Nwankpa and Chisom Agara who were involved in the heinous crime.



Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/06/alleged-witchcraft-brutalised-by.html

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Nigerians will not learn, how can one deal with what is spiritual , physically, why not deal with it spiritually, since witchcraft is spiritual, what evidence do they have to punish that man that way, this is so bad, and i strongly reject it.

Freewoman:
Nigerians will not learn, how can one deal with what is spiritual , physically, why not deal with it spiritually, since witchcraft is spiritual, what evidence do they have to punish that man that way, this is so bad, and i strongly reject it.

Don't mind dem jare, If police come catch dem all now, they will be crying for bail.

They are always dirty and unkept.

Op, this Agbara family are they the family members of late Dr Nwagbara that married a white woman?.

Nigeria My Country

missioner:
They are always dirty and unkept.

If you don't know what to say just shut your mouth. We know those that are extremely dirty with their heels scattered like lightning.

Hmmmmm. These are the sets of people making Nigeria look like an ancient country. Let justice be served.

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They should have killed him.. That is what the Bible commands be done to Witches.





Seriously though, this is the fault of the Nigerian Police. When security is poor in an Area and there is little to no Police presence, they have no choice to resort to vigilantes for their security. And we have all seen how these Vigilante thing plays out time and time again. Bakassi Boys in Aba and their exploits are still fresh on our minds. The Aluu 4 was also a Vigilante action.. Just recently in Ghana with the Military guy and several other low key incidences around the country.

All this because of nothing other than some fictitious accusation of someone being a witch. And of course the community supported that he is a witch because they are just as daft to believe in those types of fairy tale nonsense.

He should Or the NGO should please as a matter of urgency help to sue those miscreants.


Beast in human being shape.


To the poster below complaining of nairaland 502 errors.

Seun has addressed the issue and he has also apologized for the inconvenience.

MadCow1:
They should have killed him.. That is what the Bible commands be done to Witches.

ur monicker signifies who u are

Pardon the digression.


Is anyone else experiencing this on NL?

I wonder what tribe did it

Help. Seun!!!!

Foolish superstitious vigilantes,
when does it become a crime to have bottles of shnapps and local calabash
at home ?

Of the 196 countries in the world
How did I end up in Nigeria?

This is gross

In this day and age? Are we still this backward?

...

U expect nigeria to develop when africa itself is poised for backwardness with d set of leaders we have as frontiers. Remember Nigeria is said to be giant of africa, n also remember that we have one of the youngest leaders ruling us in africa, i mean third youngest at age 73, n we hardly can move forward how much more the entire africa. Until these guys are all gone, nothing will happen or change.

Barbaric mentality.
Its probably somewhat tolerable when one or two people in a community think like barbarians, when the entire community thinks same way, then they have a huge problem and the entire community needs psychological evaluation, obviously by some qualified professionals from a region far from that backward community. They should all be caged, including their chief, and individually assessed on their psychological and mental balance.

Thank God Nigerians don't have access to nuclear bombs. They probably would strapped that gentleman to one and exploded the entire community including themselves because they want to kill a witch. Later their offsprings will blame the government for the disaster their parents created themselves. Backward mentality still flourishing in Nigeria in 2017, weird. May be 3017 will open more eyes, I guess.

Would anyone from anywhere in the world want to go to such a place for tourism when it's full of backward people that can just label him or her a witch or wizard or whatever else? The superstitious stories about witches is they fly at night, every living creature that flies have wings, this man doesn't have wings on him, so how the hell is a witch? Unless theres any scientific explanation to how anything fly without wings or other propulsion technologies as we see on drones, aircrafts etc . This man aint no damn witch, hes jus being victimized. Id sue the entire community if i was in his shoes, which of course i know ill never be. Who wants be around barbarians? Nonsense.

I don't believe in these witch and wizard nonsense. How come it's only black nations that believe that crap? How many witches have been caught in Europe, Canada, Asia and US? Why is it only Africa where witches and wizards reside. Nonsense.

the biggest witches n wizards r in d churches. if na witch hunting, make dem go churches n search every square millimeter, una go harvest plenty of dem...... u will be surprised dat all churches wil b having a secret room wher d magician's (pastor) fetish shit s locked.

nonsense

But Buhari why your life dey like this nau?
Since May 29, 2015 you just dey cause wahala everywhere..
I don tire for your matter sef.

missioner:
They are always dirty and unkept.

who?

DrGoodmanFather:
Help. Seun!!!!

I don tire for here too o

These are the people that will be shouting DSS, APC. There is not even Freedom of speech on Nairaland.