Blind Grandma Rescues Kids About To Be Sold To Ritualists

A blind grandmother identified as Mrs Bassey Ekong has rescued two children Gideon Edet and Kingsley Edet while their parents tried to sell them to suspected ritualists in Akwa Ibom 

The victim’s parents had reportedly completed negotiations to sell them for the sum of N50,000 and N20,000 respectively, due to poverty when their grand mother intervened.

Mrs Ekong who hails from Mbiokporo, in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area of the state, told Punch that she stopped the mother of the kids who is her second daughter from selling her children when she threatened to place a curse on her.

She explained that when her daughter who is a housewife gave birth to her first son, the father was jobless. A friend to their mother later linked the family to suspected ritualists who offered to buy the children.

The grandmother claimed that the mother and father of the children conspired to sell them but when they told her, she cursed them and threatened  to report the matter to the police, which made them abandon the children.

“I suffered to raise the children by engaging in menial jobs and weeding people’s farm for meagre wages, just to keep the kids,” Ekong added.

She stated further that when the children were old enough to begin schools she enrolled them at St. George’s Primary School, Aka Offot, Uyo, but things had become quite difficult for them and she could no longer cater for the children finances.

“I cry for these children each day they leave for school without food and no writing materials in class. Now, I can’t help them. Their parents ran away as they failed in their plot to sell them to ritualists.”