Mother luck snatched a ten -year-old girl from the jaws of death after she was locked up in a fridge by her captor to await night fall before she is slaughtered for ritual.
Kenneth Uba, a wholesale rice seller at the popular Marian Market in Calabar the Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria on Tuesday allegedly lured the little girl who was hawking banana into his building site at 2, Obot Close, State Housing Calabar.
A source at 2, Obot Close told P.M.NNEWS that Kenneth, who along with others was working on his storey building which looks like a warehouse, lured the girl into the premises on the pretext that he wanted to buy banana.
“When the girl entered the premises he quickly locked the gate and grabbed the girl and bundled her into a disused refrigerator,” the source said.
The source, a lady who says she is fro m Edo State, said she was present at the time of the incident.
According to her, when the girl did not come out of the premises after a long period, the little boy with whom she was hawking banana began to cry.
“One man who was passing by asked the little boy why he was crying and he told the man that his sister with whom they were hawking went inside (pointing at the building) to sell banana and has since not come out,” the lady said.
The man, our source said knocked on the gate several times but Kenneth refused to open the gate.
This raised the man’s suspicion as to what might have happened to the girl, and he had to mobilise others who joined in knocking on the gate and eventually forced it open.
“When the gate was forced open, Kenneth was standing beside the fridge and barking like a dog while the girl’s banana basin was kept some metres away and when the people asked where the girl was, he said he did not know,”
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