Following
the shocking discovery of a little boy allegedly buried alive in a
moulded wall, the true story behind the incident has been revealed.
The boy was rescued after being buried in a moulded wall
The true story behind the little 12-year-old boy who was found alive buried in a moulded wall has been revealed.
According to a revelation by Channels Television, who visited the
bungalow where the incident happened located on 3B Akinfemisoye Street,
Oduduwa Area in New Town, Ondo city in Ondo West Local Government Area
of Ondo State shows that the building is being inhabited by tenants who
are students of the Adeyemi College of Education in the town.
Charity Adebayo, one of the students living in the compound told
Channels Television that the boy, who is suspected to be mentally
deranged, fell into a the little space between the walls of the house
and a food canteen next to it.
“We started hearing the boy saying meaningless things from inside the wall,” she said.
Charity explained that at daybreak, people came and broke the fence and brought him out.
According to her, the grandmother of the boy came to pick him.
Felicia Olaniyi, who operates the food canteen at the other side, gave her own account of the story in Yoruba language.
“The boy was said to have escaped from his grandmother one evening while she was taking him to a church for healing.
“The boy must have fallen in-between the walls of the two buildings,” she said.
According to her, after they heard the voice of the boy in the
wall, it attracted people’s attention and a ladder was brought. “He was
discovered in the space and the wall was broken,” she explained.
She said the residents also alerted the police before the boy was
brought out and also corroborated Charity’s claims that he was taken
away by his grandmother.
Michael Gbala, a medical practitioner, who also lives in the
neighbourhood told Channels Television that he learnt that the boy was
mentally deranged.
Explaining in Yoruba what happened, a Prophetess Dorcas Adebayo
revealed that the boy's grandmother brought the boy to her for healing.
She believes the boy must have, in a bid to escape from the
grandmother after she took him away from the church, fallen into the
wall.
The old prophetess said she did not know the boy’s whereabouts ever
since. A little boy also gave his account of the story, saying the boy
had been taken to the State Specialist Hospital in town.
At the hospital sources said that the boy’s name is Aduragbemi Saka and that he was admitted but had since been discharged.
Channels Television, however, got to know the address of the boy
and his grandmother which is at number 11, Okegbogi Street in the town.
On getting to the house, the one storey building was locked with a padlock.
The residents of the street refused to speak to reporters, but
however said that they knew the boy but had not been seen him for a long
time.
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