Monday, September 14, 2009

Ritual-killing or election?

Just last two weeks, a couple sacrificed their wad to ritual-killers, though under duress. The couple with their children were driving along a road in Enugu, coal city state of Nigeria, when they sighted a pregnant woman yelling ‘help!’ The man’s wife suggested that they stop and check but the man defiantly drove on. When it appeared the matter might bring a serious misunderstanding between him and his wife, the man reversed and just in the process of helping the pregnant woman, some men appeared and asked the man to choose one of his kids whom they would part with.
No doubt the men were armed and the man finally succumbed to their demand. He fled with his remaining family at their command and shortly afterwards returned to the scene with some policemen whom he met at a road block ahead but all they could see at the scene was the headless body of his child. A critical analysis of this situation (knowing it could happen to anyone) leaves one wondering if this is just all about ritual-killing or if it has a link with the forthcoming elections.

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