A 25years old girl
wouldn’t have
been alive to tell
this story if not for
God who created a
way of escape for
her from the hands
of ritualists.
This is what you
call a narrow
escape or a close
shave with death.
This is the story of
25-year old
Patience Bitrus
who recently
escaped from
suspected
ritualists in Bauchi
State. But the sad
part of her story is
that her co-
traveller was not
as lucky as
Patience painted a
gory picture of
how she was
slaughtered like a
sacrificial ram by
the evil men.
Narrating her
ordeal, Patience
recalled that she
watched with fear,
how three men
pinned down the
victim, a young
woman of about
her age, slit her
throat, chopped
off her breasts
and plucked out
her two eyes.
Recalling how the
victim was
dismembered,
Patience told Daily
Sun: that “On that
fateful Sunday
after church
service, at about
11 am, her
boyfriend, Sunday
Noma took her to
the Central Market
Motor Park in
Bauchi. “she was
travelling to
Kangare to meet
her aunt. Suddenly,
a woman came on
a motorcycle. The
men inside a black
coloured car asked
about her
destination and
she replied that
she was travelling
to Kangare.
“patience was just
waiting beside the
car, a black Opel
Vectra where Five
men were sitting
at the backseat.
One of them stood
up and asked them
to enter into the
car. The four men
told them that
they were
traveling too.
Patience and her
co traveller
entered and they
all left” She said
that when they
arrived at Kangare,
a distance of
about 15
kilometres from
Bauchi, the driver
refused to stop
the car. According
to Patience : “The
men inside the car
started insulting
them. They
threatened that
they won’t be
allowed to alight
from the vehicle.
And these guys
quickly gagged
their mouths with
clothes but
patience said that
she stood up and
grabbed the
steering of the car,
Turning it, she told
them that they
should stop or else
all of them would
die.
One of them
draggedher down
and that was how
they captured the
two girls. The
driver kept driving
until they passed
Kangare and
reached Bishi.” She
recollected that
the driver stopped
the car at a spot.
He and the other
men in the car led
them to a bush
near Bishi. They
were later joined
by another man
who led them on a
bush path, beating
them and urging
them to walk
faster.
Now in her words
she said “When we
arrived at a spot,
we were made to
sit on a rock.
They told us to
make our last call. I
called my
boyfriend and told
him what
happened and he
screamed. They
later seized the
phone from us and
collected our
money” Patience
said that around
1pm, they started
debating among
themselves who
would die first
between her and
the other woman.
Eventually, they
finally brought the
woman who was
crying for help.
“She kept saying,
sister, please help
me! They seized
her, pinned her to
the ground, cut her
throat, plucked out
her eyes chopped
off her breasts
and parts of her
body.
I did not know
where I was again
and I urinated on
my body. I started
screaming that I
would not die this
way and one of
them men started
laughing.” Patience
who attributed her
escape to divine
intervention,
described how the
man assigned to
watch over her
while the other
men left with the
body parts, rested
his head on a
stone and slept
off. “When I
sighted him, I
sprang up and ran
as fast as my legs
could carry me. I
ran for over five
hours because I
could not trace my
way back to the
road.
I fell into muddy
water until I got to
the main road. I
saw a man in a car
and stopped him.
After I narrated my
story, he took me
to the police
station. I took the
policemen back to
the spot where the
woman was killed
but we did not
meet anybody
there but we saw
traces of blood.”
The policemen
headed to the
motor park and
made arrests”
When contacted,
the Deputy Public
Relations officer of
the Bauchi police
command,Mr
Mohammed Auyo,
said he was not
aware of the
incident but
promised to inquire
and contact or
correspondent as
soon as he got the
details. Thank God
she’s alive.