The discovery of the abandoned warehouse, suspected to be a ritualists’ den, in Oyo has resurrected hope in many indigenes of the state who have missing loved ones.
The general hospital in the Adeoyo area of the state, where some of the rescued victims are being treated, has been besieged by such hopefuls. For one woman however, finding her son evoked a different kind of sorrow.
Sufianat Ola could not believe her eyes when she saw the skeletal figure that was just a shadow of her son, Adewale. To make matters worse, Wale didn’t even recognize his mother.
However, his identity was confirmed when he called out for his sister who arrived the hospital with his mom.
Vanguard reports:
Adewale Ola could still remember his sister. With his thin and barely audible voice, he said, “my sister”. Tears freely flowed. It wasn’t long before the weeping became contagious as all women at the hospital put their own sorrow behind them and wept with the woman.
When Saturday Vanguard asked Mrs. Sufianat Ola why she was crying, she responded tearfully, “My son can no longer recognize me. Is that not enough reason to cry. Ah! This world is wicked. For the past thirteen years, I have been looking for my son not knowing he was in a dungeon.”
How did you know he was in the dungeon?
“He told me. That was what he told me. He said he did not see anybody to rescue him from the claws of those heartless, God-forsaken people.
How can people be so heartless all because of money.
”How are you sure he is your son?
“I have a picture he took with his friends here before he was taken away from me. Look at the picture he took with his sister. Apart from that, immediately we got here, he identified her calling her ‘my sister’. She then broke into tears”.
When Saturday Vanguard turned to Wale, he could only mutter, “won pa, won pa” meaning, “they killed the person”. He did not mention any name. That was what he said last before he lost consciousness.
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