Governor Of Akwa Ibom Makes Declaration On Children

Witchcraft: Akpabio Warns Churches
From: Okon Bassey in Uyo, 12.02.2008
A’Ibom

Hard time now await churches and spiritual homes operating in Akwa Ibom State that engage in torturing people mostly children and forcefully compelling them to confess or admit to being party to witchcraft .

The State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, who made the declaration weekend at the maiden annual teachers’ award for excellence, a private initiative of Inoyo Toro Foundation, held in Uyo, said reports had it that some churches label innocent children witches and subject them to severe and inhuman conditions including torture.

THISDAY Checks revealed that the state government's stand and action on the churches may not be unconnected with current documentary being shown on a television station in the United Kingdom on how children from the state were tortured by some churches and forced to confess to being witches...