- House [a ministry] filled with fetish items and owned by two women
Three children battered beyond recognition were rescued from a room filled with fetish items in a house allegedly owned by two women – Rejoice Raymond, 39 and Chidi Felicia Nwafor, 80. The house is said to be a ministry where evil spirits are exorcised.
The method of exorcism, according to information include, cutting the body with sharp objects to let blood out, pounding of the children with pestle in motar, flogging, starvation and other unspeakable methods.
Following intelligence report, on Friday, Feb 19, police stormed their address at NO.13 Akunwanta Mbamalu Street, Federal Housing Estates 3-3 Nkwelle Ezunaka, Anambra state, where they found three children locked up in a room.
The children – two boys and one girl – were badly bruised and were looking malnourished. They had broken bones and were left lying in their blood.
The entire room had blood stains alongside fetish items, including a mortar and multiples pestles, blood stained canes, concoction and more.
In the room, was also found a bucket where the children were made to poop as they were not allowed out of the room.
The children, whose parents were yet to be identified, were too battered to speak. They were barely conscious and appeared to be in shock.
According to the Anambra State Police, the women had “subjected them into physical and emotional torture without feeding and inflicted several wounds on their body leaving them unconscious.”
The police said in a statement: “Scene was visited by the DPO 3-3 CSP Abdu Bawa where a gory sights of badly battered victims, one with a broken arm were found in the pool of their blood and whose parents were neither seen nor known.
“Meanwhile,the children were rescued and rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
“Preliminary Investigation further revealed some fetish substances, blood stained canes,concoctions and other incriminating items were all recovered inside the rooms and registered as exhibits.”
Some sources allege the women own a ministry but also engage in fetishism, including pounding children in mortar.
Consequently, the police have arrested the duo and Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Monday Bala Kuryas, fsi has ordered a discreet investigation into the circumstances surrounding the case after which suspects would be brought to justice.