A witch doctor met his unfortunate end when he was contracted to exhume the body of a woman said to have been illtreated by her in-laws.
Idike Ezikanyi, a witch doctor from Uwani-Amaogbo, Amabokwu village in Aku town, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, collapsed and died inside the grave where he went to work.
He was contracted by a man identified as Nnadi, and other members of his family to dig up the remains of his deceased wife whose ghost is said to be haunting the family.
Reports have it that the deceased, named Stella, was illtreated by her in-laws. She died 5 years ago and was buried in the family compound.
According to an eyewitness, while the witch doctor was digging the grave, he suddenly shouted, begging the ghost of the dead woman to have mercy on him.
However, before those around could react, Ezikanyi, who made to jump out of the grave, fell back in and died instantly. Sources revealed that the widower had succumbed to pressure from his family members to secretly exhume the body of his late wife and throw it away so that her spirit would be blinded from disturbing those living in the house which she built.
The sources said the family members of the husband had hated his late wife with passion and even disinherited their son.
The late wife had a bad leg; a deformity due to an infection in infancy.
They didn’t want their son to marry her, even though the son depended on the lady who was very industrious despite her deformity. Despite their pressure and blackmail, the two got married and completed a three-bedroom house of their own.
The sources further alleged that the jealousy and recrimination against her escalated, alleging that the lady died after a spiritual attack. It was gathered that after she died mysteriously, the husband’s family refused to pay the outstanding bride price and also failed to accord her full burial rites.
The family members later packed onto the house and, feeling guilty and afraid of spiritual attack from the dead woman, they contracted the witch doctor exhume her body and throw it into an evil forest. It was during this bizarre occasion that the witch doctor died. Again, one of the widower’s sisters visited the witch doctor’s house to condole the family.
However, it was reported, after she finished crying she instantly suffered a stroke and had to be carried back to her home at Umuidu Amabokwu.
