Witchcraft: Group rescues children from lynching

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A charity organisation at Eket, Akwa Ibom State, the Child’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), said it rescued four children who were hiding in the bush to avoid being lynched.

The children, who were labelled witches and wizards, were tortured and abandoned to their fate by their families. Speaking with journalists yesterday at Eket, one the centre’s principal coordinators, Ms Elizabeth Wilson, said she led a rescue team to where the children were hiding in the bush to avoid being killed after a hint by a volunteer. She said: “We got information from a volunteer who came to our centre and told us that he had seen some of our children in the bush.
We told him our children were not missing and requested him to take us to see the children who were hiding. He obliged and took us there.
“When we got there, they wanted to run, but I told them we were coming to help them; so they decided to follow us to our centre.”