Barely weeks after he returned safely from surgery, three-year-old Chiagozie Okereke, was tuesday murdered by a Muslim cleric, one Kazeem Alimson, popularly known as Alfa, for ritual purposes.
The heartbreaking incident, which occurred at White Sand area of Isheri-Oshun Lagos, also saw the police arrest a teenager, 15-year-old Simon Kanu, who confessed he was been paid N500 by the Alfa, to bring the child.
Explaining how her son got missing and later died, his distraught mother Mrs. Chinasa Okereke, said, the bizarre incident has stolen her joy.

She said, “At about 7pm yesterday (Tuesday), I brought my children out to bathe. When I finished bathing the younger one, I went inside to get a wrapper to strap him, to enable me bathe the other child.
“But on getting outside, I didn’t see my baby again. The sister said he went into my neighbour’s house but I didn’t see him there and when I asked, they said he went out with Simon.
“I called my son’s name but there was no response. Later, we saw Simon that night, I asked him about the whereabouts of my son, he said he did not see him.
“It was yesterday that I learnt that Simon took my son to where he was strangled with his shirt and stoned to death. He was my third child. I feel so hurt. My heart is broken. I need justice.”