A 13-year-old identified as Ovey Friday has lost both his hands after his stepmother took him to a native doctor and coals of fire were heaped on his tied hands.
The boy was branded a wizard and the stepmother accused him of sleeping with her in the dream and she needed him to confess and also get the spirit out of him.
She took him to her native doctor in Wulko Community, Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area, Nasarawa State where hot coals were placed on his tied hands.
The incident led to a permanent deformity of his right hand while the left hand was amputated at an Abuja hospital yesterday November 14th.
Spokesperson of the Nasarawa state Ministry of Youths, Eche Amos, who shared the news on his Facebook page this morning, said the suspects have been arrested by the Police and will soon be charged to court for ''culpable homicide.''
While Ovey's father, Friday Dio, an okada rider based in Lagos is yet to surface since this incident happened, efforts are underway to fix a prosthetic hand for him
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