Hunchback Boy Dies During Surgery To Remove ‘Mercury’ In Abeokuta…Father, Brother, Pastor Arrested

A 24-year-old man, Lucky, has died on operating table and his death has gotten his father, brother and a pastor kept behind bars.

 Rivers state-based vigilance group, ONELGA OSPAC, disclosed that its officers  have arrested  a pastor,  and two family members in connection with the death of Lucky.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the suspects including the pastor of a new generation church in Osiakpo, Rivers state , Olatoye, who is 54 years old, were arrested while trying to flee Port Harcourt.

Olatoye has however disclosed that Lucky, a hunchback boy, was handed over to him by his father, Ejike, and his younger brother, Pastor Paul.

Olatoye disclosed  during  custodial interrogation that  Ejike and Paul  brought Lucky to him for a surgical operation to enable the family  extract ‘mercury’ from his hunchback.

‘Paul said his brother (Ejike) has a son who has a hunchback which he was planning to do away with.

I asked him why, and he said the boy is a thief; the boy is this and that. He said when the boy was much younger, the father attempted to sell him, but it didn’t work out well.

He asked whether I know the people who could have interest in the boy’ s hunchback. I told him that I would make inquiries’ he said.

They later agreed to a surgical procedure and contacted an associate  in Abeokuta, Ogun state, who promised to pay N10 million for the ‘mercury’  that  can be sourced from the boy’s  hunchback.

‘The boy in question (Lucky) even came to meet me, begging me that if the hunchback could be removed, I should help him. He said he wanted to be like a normal human being.

I told them that he might not survive the procedure, but he said he would survive it. That was when we fixed a date for us to travel for the surgery.

My first contact was an NGO in Owerri, Imo state, and they promised to extract the ‘mercury’ and pay us N5 million.

I asked him what would be our own percentage. At last, both Paul and Ejike accepted the N5 million offer, but the NGO didn’t show up again’ he added.

Olatoye explained further that he approached another ‘contact’ in Abeokuta, Ogun state, who offered to pay N10 million but noted that the payment would be made in two or three months’ time, and all the parties agreed to this.

‘The day we travelled for the surgery in Lagos before heading to Abeokuta, Ejike handed over the boy to me and Paul gave me N15,000 for bus fares.

At the hospital, I called the father because of the document we were to sign, but he told me to go ahead and sign on his behalf.

The operation was carried out, but in the end, the boy couldn’t make it’ he added.

Ejike’s brother, Paul, 38, said he was saddened by the incident but however denied any involvement, saying he only introduced Olawale to  the victim’s father.

He also denied giving them bus fares as claimed by Pastor Olawale.

‘All the three suspects have been handed over to the Assistant Inspector General, Monitoring Unit, Zone 16, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, for further investigation and prosecution’ OSPAC Commander, Felix Nwobakata, has said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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