The discovery was made during a three-day fasting and prayer crusade organised to cleanse the community of evil.
Before now, the town of Ngwo, home of the late Chief C.C. Onoh, in Enugu State was a great land and shining city on the hills.
But over time, the Ngwo clan lost its glamour as occultists and evil men desecrated the land.
This made the people to become worried. They took a decision to seek the face of God.
Determined to get back their lost glory, they sent emissaries to far away Abia State, to get the Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Modestus Chiedozie Chilaka, to help cleanse their land and liberate them from evil deeds.
And as they gathered at Isiokpoto, their ancestral headquarters, for the four-day prayers and liberation session, indeed the man of God sent down the might of the Almighty from above that made the villagers to marvel.
The highpoint of the many miracles that happened during the period was the rescue of a 10-year-old plantain hawker abducted and used for sacrifice by unknown ritualists.
The little boy who was buried alive and covered with sand up to his neck was to be allowed to die slowly by the ritualists, but for Rev Chilaka who rescued him.
He was buried in a shrine located in a valley along the Milking Hill, Ngwo.
The boy whose identity is yet to be known as he is still unable to speak at this report had stayed in the grave for three days before he was rescued after a revelation came to Rev. Fr. Modestus Chiedozie Chilaka, who was holding a three-day prayers and cleansing of the Ngwo community on the invitation of leaders of the community.
Praying on the first day of the adoration crusade, the priest, an eyewitness said, announced that a young boy was buried alive in the community and that if nothing was done fast he would be gone forever.
He prophesied that the boy was abducted from the Independence Layout part of Enugu while he was selling plantain chips.
He disclosed that 30 occult members from the Ngwo community were involved in the sacrifice, urging the people to join hands in prayers for God to reveal where the boy was buried.
On the second day of the crusade which was the fourth day of the boy in the grave, the priest led some able bodied men from the community on a rescue journey to Milking Hills.
Ozo Victor Ugwu, a native of Ngwo whose vehicle was used to convey the youths to the shrine told Oriental News that “the priest said that the boy, a hawker who sells plantain chips was abducted from Independence Layout and that he was abducted by some occult persons from Ngwo. He said that these people sacrifice human beings for their rituals; that they are about 30 in number and had tied the progress of the youths of the community.
“We went with my vehicle; when we got to Milking Hill, the priest stopped and said it’s around there, pointing to a direction. He asked me if a vehicle could go inside, but I told him that it’s been a long time anybody used that road; so he said we should trek.
We went in and he pointed to a direction; we went there and saw the boy. One of the indigenes with us rushed and started using his hands to remove the sand around the boy. Others later joined with spade and after sometime we were able to bring him out from the grave.
There were decayed bones there, a tortoise was hanging there in the shrine; there were white pieces of cloth hung here and there, as well as other sacrificial items. The boy’s head and face were covered with blood and there was blood all around the shrine.”
According to Ugwu, there was excitement, shouts of joy and praises to God from all corners of the prayer ground when the boy was brought to the podium on the last day of the crusade.
A youth leader from the Ngwo community, Mr Chris Agu, who is also the national leader of Enugu Youth Movement disclosed that the ground where the prayers held is known as Isiokpoto, the headquarters of all Ngwo.
State Police Command’s spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, told Vanguard: “I am not aware of the incident, but I will check.
“Maybe it happened and it was not reported. I will get back to know if I have the details.”
However, the traditional ruler, Ogwugwu Ebenebe 1 of Ameke Ngwo, Igwe Jerome Okolo, said: “I was here and I saw a small boy who was buried alive as a sacrifice.
“The priest said there was such thing happening and they have buried a boy for rituals.
“He prophesied and said he will go there and rescue him. He went and they rescued the boy and brought him to this ground and everybody saw him.”
It was not known whether the boy had been reunited with the parents; or his whereabouts.
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