Coffin Maker Dumps 14-Year-Old Son In A Well For Casting Evil Spell On His Business

A coffin maker in Obingwa, Abia State has thrown his 14-year-old son into a well over alleged witchcraft. The man, popularly called, Papa Ogada has been accusing his son of being behind the ills that had befallen him over the years. It was gathered that the boy had, for some years now, lived with his mother who separated from the husband but after a while reunited with him.

Few years after the boy came back to live with his father, owing to the turn of events in the man’s fortunes, he started accusing him of being a witch and also, responsible for his misfortunes. On the fateful day, Papa Ogada, contacted one of his friends, who helped him to tie up his son, who was in his school uniform and drove off at about 9p.m. to the neighbouring Abiaka village where they dumped him inside the abandoned water well in the area.

Luck was, however, on the boy’s side when, according to a native of Abiaka village, who wouldn’t want his name in print and who claimed to have taken part in rescuing the boy, some people heard the voice of the boy from inside the well and rushed there and subsequently rescued him. The boy was admitted at an undisclosed hospital while his evil father was said to be on the run.