Following the arrival of about 846 Nigerians repatriated from Libya on Tuesday 8th January through the Port Harcourt International Airport, a man has revealed how he visited witch doctors and other spiritualists to seek his daughter's safe return.
Mr. Kehinde Enabulele, the father of Eki, one of the 846 Edo indigenes who returned from Libya, said that he visited churches and native doctors, including an Ifa Priest, to pray for the safe return of his daughter.
Mr Enabulele who denied knowledge of his daughter's exploits in Libya claimed that his daughter Eki and her mother kept it secret from him till after 3 weeks of her disappearance.
He said, “One day I returned from work and asked where she was and her mother told me that she went to visit her aunty.
“Each time I ask, they will keep giving me excuses until she called me with one foreign number after three weeks
“I told her never to call me again and insisted that she must return home. I am not from a very poor family so why should she embark on such journey.
“I have never failed to provide for my family as a father. Apart from paying my children‘s school fees, I also enrolled them in after-school skills acquisition centres to ensure they become better people in life.
“Eki is my first child when you lose a first child is like losing your own life.”
He said that as a Benin man, he immediately went to the Ifa priest, native doctors and also churches to pray so that she will not succeed in crossing to Europe.
According to Mr Enabulele, God answered my prayers and my daughter is back. I am the happiest man right now. I cannot gamble with any of my children.
He added, “I nearly divorced my wife after my daughter disappeared. I also threatened to divorce her if she refuses to tell me who sponsored the trip".
“I am just waiting for the state government to release her to me so that I can take her to the hospital for proper medical examination.”
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