Posted on: 10:47 Tue, 10 Nov 2015



A middle-aged man, identified as
Papa Ogada, has dumped his 14-
year-old son in a well, accusing him
of being behind his inability to make
progress in life.

Vanguard gathered that Ogada, a
coffin maker, who hails from
Oberete village in Obingwa Local
Government Area of Abia State, had
been complaining that his son was a
wizard, who had caused him serial
misfortunes since reuniting with
him, after leaving his mother’s place.

A source said: “The truth is that the
man has been separated from the
boy’s mother. Since the boy came
back from his mother’s place where
he lived, the man has been accusing
him of being a wizard.“

He once told us that he had consulted
many spiritualists, who told him that
his son is a wizard and is behind the
problems he has had in his
business.“ We are not surprised that
he went this far.

It was learned that Ogada contacted
one of his friends, who helped him
tie up the boy with his school
uniform, books and other property
and drove off at about 9p.m. to
neighbouring Abiaka village, where
they dumped him in an abandoned
well.

Rescue

According to a resident of Abiaka
village,vwho was part of rescue
efforts, “some of us had already
retired for the day when we started
hearing shouts and cries coming
from the location of the abandoned
well, but we thought people were
fighting.“

As the shouts increased, we
summoned courage and got to the
area and discovered that it was
coming from the abandoned well.
We got a rope and bucket, threw
them inside and the boy managed to
cling to and was pulled out.“

He was already weak with injuries.
We thanked God the well had been
out of use; he might not have
survived.”

At press time, the boy was said to be
receiving medical attention at an
undisclosed hospital, while his
father’s whereabouts is unknown.

When contacted, Police Public
Relations Officer, Abia State
Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke, said
the incident was not reported to the
Police.

Onyeka said: “I have contacted the
DPOs of Eastern Ngwa and Ohuru
Isimiri Divisions covering the
Obingwa area; they said they are not
aware of the incident. May be, it
happened and was not reported.”