A High Court sitting in Akamkpa, Cross River State has sentenced a man, Ayanime Udo to death by hanging for killing his twin daughters whom he accused of being witches.
Delivering judgement o the matter with suit number HK/6C/2018, Justice Agnes Onyebueke said, “Udo’s act is satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension.”
The judge ruled that the defendant had willfully and gruesomely murdered his 11-year-old twins, Mfoniso Anyanime and Emediong Anyanime, in 2017 after calling them witches.
When cross-examined, the middle age defendant was unable to defend his allegation of witchcraft against the 11-year old female children he had allegedly given a malt drink mixed with acid from his motorcycle.
It was gathered that one of the twins died on the spot on January 10, 2017, while the second was said to have crawled to the road where a kindhearted person picked and took her to the hospital where she died the following day.
Child Rights Activist, James Ibor, of the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative which made the prosecution of the accused possible, revealed that the incident was first reported in February 2017.
According to Ibor, Udo was arrested by the police after an investigation.
"The police ensured that necessary medical examinations and autopsy were done on the deceased children, which aided the judgement. This judgement is a great victory to the victims, Mfoniso Anyanime, Emediong Anyanime in particular, and the Government of Cross River,” he said.
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