Ado Ekiti — It was like a miracle last Thursday in Ado Ekiti, when a 14-year old teenage girl, Openiye Ranti escaped death after spending 72 hours in the ritualist's den. Ranti, a student of All Soul's Anglican Grammar School, Basiri, Ado Ekiti was kidnapped at about 4pm on Monday by a 6- man ritual syndicates at Basiri Area of Ado Ekiti in a light blue Bus and taken to a hideout between Ado Ekiti and a neighbouring Iyin Ekiti alongside two other teenagers.
The teenager, who lost her consciousness, having been charmed by the evil men was later dropped at the same location at about 7pm on Thursday after the hairs on her head and pubic had been removed for the ritual purpose. Ranti said, she was sent by her grandma, whom she lives with to buy vegetable when the ritualists accosted her and ordered her into the car, which she willingly obliged. She narrated her ordeals to newsmen at Christ Evangelical and Miracle Church, behind Fountain Nursery and Primary School, Omosajana Area of the StateCapital, where she regained her consciousness after several hours of prayers by men of God.
Ranti, whose father, Mr Kolade Omolade, a native of Afao Ekiti is a Traffic Warden with the Ekiti State Police Command said, the men immediately covered her face with a black hood and drove her into a bush, where she was tied to a tree alongside several other old and young victims they met at the dangerous spot.
She explained that she saw a deep cave where the ritualists used to take the next victim to and got an envelope in exchange, which she suspected to be money after the victim had been traditionally certified to be appropriate for the ritual .
The victim suspected the two students kidnapped alongside with her to be students of Christ's Girl School, Ado Ekiti, adding that the students have not been killed when she was relased.
Ranti, who had not fully recovered from the trauma she was made to pass through revealed that, "I was sent to buy vegetable when these six men in one light blue bus called me and asked me to enter into a bus. They immediately covered my face with a hood and drove us alongside two other students in skirt and blouse Purple-coloured.
"The three of us were hanged outside the cave, but I knew that those that were the real ritualists were inside the cave. "When any of the victim is taken into the cave and he was good for ritual, they will give the kidnappers an envelope, which I thought contains huge amount of money".
Speaking further on how she was released, "On Thursday when I was to be killed, I struggled with them as they were dragging me into the cave and a man just emerged and ordered them to take me to where they picked me without giving the reasons and that was how I was charmed and became unconscious until I was brought into this Church". Ranti's sister, Mrs Kemi Olayiwola, who sighted her where she was dropped and brought her to the Church said, she could neither stand nor speak when she was brought to the Church. Kemi told the newsmen that they have searched everywhere in the State Capital in search of the victim since she got missed on Monday before she was found.
The clergyman in -charge of the Church, Pastor Lanre Idowu told the newsmen that he had to hurriedly converge the Church's prayer warriors for a special prayer session before Ranti could regain her consciousness from satanic bondage. "She behaved like a moron when she was brought here, but after about one hour of fire-branded prayer , she began to regain her consciousness". The Public Relations Officer of the Ekiti State Police Command, ASP Victor Babayemi did not pick his telephone sets when he was called to confirm the story
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