Man poisons two-year-old son over prophecy – The Nation
November 20, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
To avoid a presumed deadly prophecy, a 32-year-old man, Mr. John Effiong, has allegedly poisoned his two year-old son.
The son, Comfort, was allegedly fed by his parents with a plate of rice laced with poison.
It was gathered that the father, in collaboration with his wife, decided to kill their son in reaction to a prophecy that the child was a wizard, who was attempting to harm his pregnant mother.
Nemesis, however, caught up with them when policemen at a checkpoint on Benin-Abraka road arrested the father and two others carrying the corpse of the child in a “Ghana must-go” bag.
The two others, John Okoh, 43, and Pastor Aniekan Achiobong were arrested for complicity in the murder.
Prophet Ini Monday, who gave the couple the prophecy at his church in Upper Sakponba Road, Benin, has been declared wanted by the police.
