14 years old girl escapes from ritualist in Ekiti

FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD student of All Soul’s Anglican Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Ranti Openiye, last week, came within the whiskers of death when she was abducted by suspected ritual killers at Basiri area of the town.
Miss Openiye, while recalling her escape from the kidnappers at the weekend, said she found two other female secondary school students in the bus in which she was taken away.
Openiye, who said she was abducted at about 4p.m. on Monday while on an errand by her grandmother, added that she was found on Thursday evening and taken to Christ Prayerful and Holiness Evangelical Church, also in Ado Ekiti, where she was revived during a prayer session.
According to her, six men in a blue bus parked beside her and controlled her into the bus, after which “they hit me on the chest and I lost my senses,” adding that “they covered my face with a cloth and I know they drove straight to the opposite of the direction I was coming from, meaning that they took us to somewhere between Iyin and Ado with the two other teenagers.”
She added: “They took us to a cave where I saw bodies of people who had died and those who were still alive. People were taken into the cave while we were thoroughly beaten. They shove all the hair on my body and it was only on Thursday that I realised that they had shaven my hair.”
On how she escaped, she said when they wanted to take her into the cave, she struggled with them and cried so much that a man emerged from the cave, ordered that she should be taken out of the place to where she was taken from.
Her elder sister, Mrs Kemi Olayiwola, also told journalists at the church that words just came to them on Thursday evening that Ranti had been found somewhere at Iyin Road, adding that they saw her barely conscious with her head partly shaven.
Olayiwola told newsmen that they had earlier searched everywhere in the state capital in search of the victim since she went missing on Monday before she was found.
Pastor Lanre Idowu, who was in charge of the church, told newsmen that he had to convene an emergency deliverance session before she could regain consciousness, adding that she could not even tell her name when she was brought to the church.