Mrs.
Cecilia Emberga Agammbuee, mother of the three children beheaded on
October 30 at Disol village in Gasol local government area of Taraba
State by yet unknown persons, has narrated her story to Sunday
Vanguard. “The bereaved mother, who spoke in tears at Disol village, a settlement
where the ugly incident occurred, has just one child left. Cecilia’s
story was told in Tiv through an interpreter.“ She identified the three slain children as Terdors, a girl, 10; Terna Embelga, a boy, 8, and Sulumshima Embelga, a girl, 6.
The three of them went to bath in a nearby stream called Jookwa
alongside eight other children around 5pm on October 30”, she narrated.
“When they (all the 11 children) finished swimming, they decided to
fetch water with their buckets for their use at home. On their homeward
journey along the bush path, two men suddenly emerged from a farm rice
and grabbed one of my three children in the group by the neck. “While
the other children in the group threw away the buckets of water they
were carrying amid the ambush and ran for their dear lives, my two other
children decided to fight back and rescue their sibling from the
assailants.
The escaped children brought the news home. Immediately, my husband,
fellow villagers and I mobilised to the scene of the attack where we
found the headless bodies of the three children in a pool of blood. It
was horrifying.
“Beholding the headless bodies, I thought I would die. There were other
items lying on the ground at the scene of the crime. “The items include
a weird looking cap, substances believed to be hard drugs and a blood
stained shirt.
“We didn’t see the heads of the children. They may
have been taken away for ritual purposes. “I had four children. With
three of them killed in cold blood, I am left with only one that I am
breastfeeding. It all shows the seriousness of the insecurity in the
land.” She wept.
Taraba State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ASP David
Misal, confirmed the incident and said the command was investigating the
crime.“Misal, however, said no arrest had been made.