unyenge

Alleged Child Witch Idongesit Okon And A Society That Has Lost Its Soul! To an avid follower of events happening in Nigerian, it would by now be pretty obvious that although majority of Nigerians feign deep religiosity, we are in fact an extremely spiritually and morally bankrupt people. Nothing confirms this fact better than the story of 13-year-old Idongesit Okon Iko, a boy from the town of Unyenge in Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Recall that Akwa Ibom is not far from Calabar where over 100 years ago, Scottish missionary Mary Slessor stopped the killing of twins, whose births were considered by the natives for many years at that time as an evil curse. Is this why today, cruelty to children can be easily stomached by indigenes of the State?Akwa Ibom is an oil rich yet pove...