While the police have nabbed two suspects in the case of the three-year-old boy whose eyes were violently gouged by suspected ritualists, the young victim will soon leave for India for further treatment. Malam Usman Isa Auta, father of little Abubakar, told Daily Trust that the emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, is facilitating the medical trip in fulfilment of his promise to sponsor the treatment.
Suspected ritualists had last month tricked little Abubakar to an uncompleted building in Buda area of Jushi, Zaria, and gouged his eyes. Since then, he has been receiving treatment at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, eventually discharged.
While at ABUTH, doctors had proposed to construct artificial eyes to fill the spaces left.
“The overseas treatment proposal stopped the ABUTH’s efforts. His Highness, Alhaji Shehu Idris, is making arrangements to take the boy to India,” Auta said. Abubakar, according to his father, now recognises people by their voices. “He identifies all of us by our voices. Unlike before when he’d cry profusely for his eyes to be opened to see his mother, he is now calm. Perhaps he has surrendered to his destiny. We are praying to Allah to open his heart to be able to do wonderful things like some of the world’s outstanding blind persons. We have accepted what Allah has destined,” Auta explained.
The father also confirmed to Daily Trust that a Bauchi-born Islamic scholar, who is now based in Jama’atu Islamiyya, Medina, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Isa Pantami, has also promised to sponsor Abubakar to a Qur’anic memorisation school after the completion of his treatment.
The Chief Protocol Officer of the emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Abubakar Ladan, has confirmed to our correspondent that the emir would foot all the medical bills.
Similarly, penultimate Tuesday, February 9, residents of Sabuwar Banzazzau, Zaria, foiled an attempt by some people to gouge the eyes of a two-year-old boy, Ibrahim Manir. The suspects, according to findings, had already tied the boy when some vigilant residents noticed their movement. They however escaped from the scene on sensing the attempt of the residents to ambush them. Little Ibrahim was since reunited with his parents after they were taken to police headquarters in Zaria
Three days after the incident, the vigilance of the residents resulted to the arrest of two persons suspected to be those behind the removal of Abubakar’s eyes. They were apprehended last Friday. Daily Trust gathered that one of the suspects was arrested at about 1:15pm inside the premises of a primary school in the Buda area of Zaria. He was apprehended by some residents as at the time when most people were at Juma’at (Friday) mosque for prayers. On interrogation, the suspect told the residents that he was at the area for courtship, but when asked to show the house where the girl was residing, he failed, our source said.
The Area Commander in charge of Zaria police headquarters, Muhammad D. Shehu, confirmed the arrest, saying that the two suspects were transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Nigeria Police in Kaduna.
Daily Trust
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Suspected ritualists had last month tricked little Abubakar to an uncompleted building in Buda area of Jushi, Zaria, and gouged his eyes. Since then, he has been receiving treatment at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, eventually discharged.
While at ABUTH, doctors had proposed to construct artificial eyes to fill the spaces left.
“The overseas treatment proposal stopped the ABUTH’s efforts. His Highness, Alhaji Shehu Idris, is making arrangements to take the boy to India,” Auta said. Abubakar, according to his father, now recognises people by their voices. “He identifies all of us by our voices. Unlike before when he’d cry profusely for his eyes to be opened to see his mother, he is now calm. Perhaps he has surrendered to his destiny. We are praying to Allah to open his heart to be able to do wonderful things like some of the world’s outstanding blind persons. We have accepted what Allah has destined,” Auta explained.
The father also confirmed to Daily Trust that a Bauchi-born Islamic scholar, who is now based in Jama’atu Islamiyya, Medina, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Isa Pantami, has also promised to sponsor Abubakar to a Qur’anic memorisation school after the completion of his treatment.
The Chief Protocol Officer of the emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Abubakar Ladan, has confirmed to our correspondent that the emir would foot all the medical bills.
Similarly, penultimate Tuesday, February 9, residents of Sabuwar Banzazzau, Zaria, foiled an attempt by some people to gouge the eyes of a two-year-old boy, Ibrahim Manir. The suspects, according to findings, had already tied the boy when some vigilant residents noticed their movement. They however escaped from the scene on sensing the attempt of the residents to ambush them. Little Ibrahim was since reunited with his parents after they were taken to police headquarters in Zaria
Three days after the incident, the vigilance of the residents resulted to the arrest of two persons suspected to be those behind the removal of Abubakar’s eyes. They were apprehended last Friday. Daily Trust gathered that one of the suspects was arrested at about 1:15pm inside the premises of a primary school in the Buda area of Zaria. He was apprehended by some residents as at the time when most people were at Juma’at (Friday) mosque for prayers. On interrogation, the suspect told the residents that he was at the area for courtship, but when asked to show the house where the girl was residing, he failed, our source said.
The Area Commander in charge of Zaria police headquarters, Muhammad D. Shehu, confirmed the arrest, saying that the two suspects were transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Nigeria Police in Kaduna.
Daily Trust
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