A man has killed his two children in Igbogene community, a suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State over allegation of witchcraft .
The police have arrested the 42-year-old man, Samuel Sunday Otasi, for the murder after allegedly giving them an insecticide to drink.
Otasi, from Agbobiri community in Biseni clan, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, allegedly connived with his cousin, Levi, tied three of his children to a tree in the bush along Gloryland Drive, Igbogene, and forcefully gave them the poison to drink.
It was
Findings indicated that Success miraculously came out of the bush and crawled to the roadside, where he was found unconscious and taken to hospital on December 31, 2018. Success after regaining
Police arrested Preye Ayah, said to be a cousin to Sunday, and he took them to Sunday’s house in Okarki, where he was arrested. Levi, however, could not be arrested.
Success, at the hospital, alleged that his father and their uncle, Levi, led them to the forest, where they were tied to the tree and given poison to drink.
The commissioner of police in the state,