Picture: Ritualists strike in Ekiti- Abduct girl, 14, shave her pubic hair

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

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A 14-years old girl, Ranti Openiye, narrowly escaped death at the hands of ritualists in Ado-Ekiti last Thursday. Her escape was simply miraculous after spending 72 hours in their den.

A six-man syndicate at Basiri area of the state capital kidnapped Ranti, a student of All Soul’s Anglican Grammar School, Basiri, Ado Ekiti about 4pm three days earlier, but she gained her freedom after spending days in captivity.

Narrating her ordeal last weekend after regaining her consciousness, she said she was whisked away along side two other teenagers in a light-blue bus and taken to a hideout between Ado-Ekiti and neigbouring Iyin-Ekiti.

The teenager, who lost her consciousness, having been charmed by the evil men was later dropped at the same location at about 7pm on Thursday after her abductors shaved the hairs on her head and pubic region.

Ranti said she was sent by her grandmother, who she was living with, to buy vegetable when the men accosted her and ordered her into their car and she obliged them.
She narrated her story to newsmen at Christ Prayerful and Holiness Evangelical Church, behind Fountain Nursery and Primary School in Omosajana area of the state capital, where she regained her consciousness after some men of God laboured for several hours in prayers to restore her sanity.
She said: “I was sent to buy vegetable when six men in one light blue bus called me and asked me to enter the bus. They immediately covered my face with a hood and drove off. There were two other students in purple-coloured skirt and blouse school uniform.

Ranti, whose father, Mr. Kolade Omolade, a native of Afao-Ekiti, is a traffic warden with the Ekiti State Police Command said the men immediately covered her face with a black hood and drove straight into a bush where she was tied to a tree alongside several others – old and young victims she saw in their den.

She disclosed that she saw a deep cave where the ritualists used to take the victims to and got an envelope in exchange, which she suspected to be money after she had been traditionally certified to be inappropriate for the ritual.
She said she suspected that the two students taken to the location with her were students of Christ’s Girl School, Ado Ekiti, adding that they hadn’t been killed yet at the time she was released.
The teenager who was yet to fully recover from the trauma she passed through said:
“The three of us were hanged outside the cave, but I knew that the real ritualists were right inside the cave.

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