The victim lying on the bare floor inside the
kitchen
W-I-C-K-E-D-N-E-S-S: Bizman ties apprentice for 10
days without food in Lagos
When Thankgod Nwabisi, 23, left his village in Adani,
Uzo-Uwani L.G.A of Enugu State to serve as an
apprentice to an auto -parts dealer in Ladipo, Lagos,
popularly called Elopee, members of his family
heaved a sigh of relief, believing that their only child
was making a positive headway in life.
Little did they know that the secondary school holder
will end up being traumatized by his master. He was
thoroughly tortured, tied with ropes and dumped
inside a room in the master’s house for about ten
days without food or water. According to him, he was
accused of not reconciling their sale’s book properly
resulting in the loss of N4,000.
The ugly incident which took place at Number 1, Bisi
Yusuf area, Kainde in Ayobo, a suburb of Lagos State,
aroused the anger of their neighbours who promptly
alerted policemen on patrol from Ayobo division and
they swiftly responded. The eagle-eyed policemen
reportedly broke into the premises after making
frantic calls without response while the agonising
cries of pain was coming from one of the rooms in the
house.
When they succeeded in gaining entry into the
building, they were shocked to see a 23-year-old boy,
tied hands and legs and dumped like an animal in
one corner of the room. He had bruises all over his
body and his head was smeared with caked blood.
They quickly rescued the poor boy and while
searching the house, they saw a female teenager
who claimed to be a relation to the wife of his master
and they took all of them to their station for
questioning.
His plight
Police sources said while narrating his plight, the boy
disclosed that his master, Elochukwu Ikwueze, is
from Akama-Oye in Eziagu L.G.A. of Enugu State.
According to sources, the boy signed agreement to
serve the man for seven years, and he had already
served five years. They were living in a two-room
apartment at Number 43, Eyegun street, Mafoluku,
Lagos before his master got married and moved to
his own house at Ayobo. They normally spent
weekdays at Mafoluku but always spent weekends in
the man’s house at Ayobo.
The boy narrated that on Sunday, 25th of September,
while they were at Ayobo, they all embarked on
cleaning the house and it’s surroundings in the
morning. They continued with the exercise till
evening and when he requested for food, both his
master and his wife ignored him.
He said his master later started questioning him
about their sales the previous day and he explained
everything to him. “He complained that about
N4,000 was missing from a sale of N28,000 we made
but I explained everything to him yet, he insisted
that the money was missing. Later, I went into my
room .
Few minutes later, he came into the room, armed
with a huge stick and started beating me. He called
on my second and both of them tied my hands and
legs with a rope, dragged me into the kitchen and
locked the place up. I was abandoned inside the
kitchen for about three days until I noticed that
somebody slipped a plate of food through an opening
to me.
Hungrily, I ate the food. I was defecating and
urinating inside the same place until seven days later
when the pains became unbearable. I then started
crying and raising my voice, calling for help. It was
then that I knew that the small girl living with us, a
relation of my master’s wife, was also left in the
house and she was the person that slipped food into
the kitchen for me.
How he was rescued
“After sometime, I overheard people shouting at out
gate, calling for the door to be opened. Later, they
broke into the premises and I saw they were
policemen. They rescued me and took both of us to
their station where I narrated all that happened to
me.”
Crime Guard gathered that after Policemen broke
into the house, they found the female teenager in the
parlour. She led them to the kitchen where they saw
the boy, tied like a goat with splashes of his urine
and excreta all over the room. The divisional Police
officer, Musa Lariski reportedly directed his men to
quickly rush the boy to the nearest hospital where he
was giving proper medical attention beofore he was
brought back to the station.
It was learnt that since then, all efforts made by
detectives to trace the owner of the house and his
wife yielded negative results.A team of policemen
were also said to had gone to his shop at Ladipo
market only to discover that he had not shown his
face since the the boy was rescued from his house. It
was gathered that one of the market leaders assured
the police that they will trace his whereabouts and
bring him to the station.
Meanwhile, when Crime Guard had a brief encounter
with the distraught boy, he was crying and lamenting
the fate that befell him. In tears he said, “My fear is
that he has my identity card and he may fram me up.
I did not take even a kobo from his money, he was
only trying to avoid settling me after my
stewardship.
That is how he has been treating all the boys that
suffered for him, he will frame you and deny you
reaping the reward of your stewardship. Whatever
happened, I am happy with the police for rescuing
me alive. Who knows what could have happened to
me later,” he questioned.
VANGUARD
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Hmmmm
.......he's just tryn to frame de guy to avoid settling.

All for 4000 naira. Mans inhumanity to a fellow being. What a pathetic reality