A blind grandmother identified as Mrs Bassey Ekong has rescued her 2 grandchildren Gideon Edet and Kingsley Edet whose parents had concluded plans to sell to ritualists in Akwa Ibom State.
The grandmother narrated how the victims’ parents had completed negotiations to sell them for the sum of N50,000 and N20,000 respectively.
The old lady said the parents took the horrible option because of poverty.
Punch quotes Mrs Ekong who hails from Mbiokporo, in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of the state, as saying that she stopped the mother of the kids who is her second daughter from selling her children when she threatened to place a curse on her.
According to her, the children’s mother who is a full time housewife gave birth to her first son while the husband was jobless. A friend of the young mother later linked the family to suspected ritualists who offered to buy the children.
The grandmother claimed that the mother and father of the children conspired to sell them but when they told her, she cursed them and threatened to report the matter to the police, which made them abandon the children.
“I suffered to raise the children by engaging in menial jobs and weeding people’s farm for meagre wages, just to keep the kids,” Ekong added.
She stated further that when the children were old enough to begin school she enrolled them at St. George’s Primary School, Aka Offot, Uyo, but things had become quite difficult for them and she could no longer cater to their needs.
“I cry for these children each day they leave for school without food and no writing materials in class. Now, I can’t help them. Their parents ran away as they failed in their plot to sell them to ritualists.”
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