A young girl of 18, Miss Ladi
Okoro who works at Mararaba, a suburb of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory,
must have heard tales of how people fall victims of ritualists, yet she had not
experienced one until Wednesday, 6th March, 2013 when some ritualists picked
her and 2 others from Mopol Junction in Mararaba, after the young girl had
closed from work.
Ladi who narrated her experience
in the hands of the ritualists to DailyPost said she could only remember when
the driver of the red taxi that picked them from the junction stopped for them
to get into the car.
According to Ladi, it was like a
movie scene as she only realized she was in trouble when she woke up midnight
to discover that she was not in the house but in the midst of some strange
faces.
” All I remembered at that point
was when I got into that car. After then, we all slept off, and the driver of
the red taxi took us far into the bush. I woke up midnight to realize that I
was in a strange place. We met 5 other victims, but they were all ‘dead’
asleep. ”
Ladi said the moment she realized
that she was at the wrong place, she began to pray alongside one of the girls
who boarded the same taxi.
” When I realized that I was in
the wrong place, I quickly went into meditation and prayer. I told God that it
was not yet time for me to die. We both refused to sleep. When others were
sleeping, we were crying and praying. They put guns on our head and asked us to
keep quiet. We were never ready to give up as we continued to pray even in
silence. Fortunately for me, they stepped out of the uncompleted building, then
my phone rang. I summoned courage to speak to my people. I had told them what
had happened before the conversation was cut short, as the ritualists rushed
into the building to cease all our phones, warning me and the other girl to
remain quiet or we would be killed.”
“However, we did not stop crying and praying.
Our persistent prayers put them off balance.”
Disclosing how both of them were
freed, Ladi said ” We cried and prayed till the next day, and at about 9am, the
ritualists had a brief meeting and threw our bags out of the building. We
walked round the bush, trying to trace our way back to town. However, we came
out at one expressway, where we discovered that we had gone far into Kefi
forest. Some good Nigerians helped us. A young boy who claimed he knew where
the ritualists operate had volunteered to take the police to the uncompleted
building. Though, we didn’t go with them again, we were told that the men had
vacated the building before the police got there.”
Speaking on the fate of the other
six they left at the place, Ladi said ” I really pity them. They didn’t even
know what was happening. They were far asleep. Now that the police said they
have vacated the uncompleted building, I really don’t know what must have
happened to them. They could be killed.
I just pray nothing happens to them.”
Among the other six victims, Ladi
said they were 4 young women and 2 young men.
When DailyPost visited one of the
police stations around Kefi, in Nasarawa state, the police disclosed that they
were told about the incident, and efforts were on top gear to rescue the
remaining victims.
Ladi has since been reunited with
her family after they had suffered much trauma.
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