After going missing for three days, the dismembered body of a four-year-old boy, Eleazar Ishiya, was discovered inside a manhole adjacent to Mr Biggs in Abuja’s Jabi area.
The boy was reported missing on Friday, March 3, at Filin Ball in Jabi Daki Biyu, and his body was discovered three days later, according to family sources.
Joel Joseph, a witness, said, “When we saw his body inside the manhole, his grandmother attempted to jump inside but I took hold of her and pushed her away. I jumped inside the pit where I found the body already rotten. His tongue, anus and genitals were chopped off while his eyes were also plucked out.
“It’s apparent that his killers are rituals and they might have dumped him inside the pit in the night.’’
The victim, whom his mother, Precious Ishaya, described as “smart,” was a nursery one student and the family’s only child.
The mother said, “On that fateful Friday, Eleazar was about to be bathed. He took a N10 note to buy sweets from a neighbourhood shop and went missing.
“I am not disturbed by his death, rather how horribly he was tortured to death. I rest my case to God. I don’t know the perpetrators because I am not a spiritual-eyed being. The boy’s blood can infiltrate his heartless killer(s) because he is innocent. They should consider themselves as dead already.
“I could not muster courage to see his defaced body; it was later that I managed to see his body in pictures,’’ she added.