A 42-year old man named Edet Etok-Akpan is currently being questioned at the Cross State Police Command headquarters in Calabar.
According to reports, the act was a result of a church prophetess’ announcement that the girl was the witch that caused the stagnancy in his life.
Etok-Akpan started to beat his daughter on February 19.
On Monday, March 4, Edidiong narrated her ordeal to our source and said that the beatings lasted for some days and her father tied her hands with a cord and bound her mouth with a piece of cloth on February 21.
“He locked me in the inner room of our house and he never gave me food and never allowed me to go to school,” she said.
It was found out that Etitiong is a basic three student at Femos Nursery and Primary School which is located at 24 Etyin Abasi Street.
The girl was becoming weak after several days without food and water.
Luck came her way on February 23 when another child who lives in the same street as theirs came to their veranda to look for a broom and found her.
She looked through the louvers of the window and saw Edidiong bound on the floor and raised the alarm. Her parents and other neighbours rushed to the place and saw Edidiong bound inside her apartment.
When the policemen and I got there, we saw a crowd gathered outside. We were able to rescue the child by breaking the door.
The girl was very weak because she had been without food for days and so we had to give her water first, then after about ten minutes we gave her milk before solid food an hour later,” he said.
Ibor said the culprit and his wife had locked up the girl in the inner room of their two-room apartment and went to church, adding that the girl was presently living with her grandmother in another part of the town.
Cross State Police Public Relations Officer John Umoh said that the suspect had already been arrested and he will be seen in court to answer charges of felony filed against him
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