About 50 Kids Accused Of Being Witches In Nimba …Court Declares Accuser wanted ‘for Mistreating Them

The office of the City Solicitor at the Magisterial Court in Ganta, Nimba County has declared WANTED, the living body of the Mother operating such church in Ganta, Nimba County. Speaking to citizens on Radio Kergheamahn , Wilson Sokpasee, City Solicitor said police has charged a woman caretaker of kids at the Fire for Fire Church identified as Docca for torturing several kids for alleged witchcraft activities at the church compound in Ganta, Nimba County.
He said many of the kids, ages ranging between three and four years were tied with ropes at the church compound for allegedly being witches and wizards and starved for several days as punishment for them to confess.
The City Solicitor said the caretaker has been arrested and sent to the central prison in Sanniquellie pending court trial in the county.
Fire for Fire is a deliverance church where many people go with people who are sick to get spiritual deliverance and healing.
Speaking to Inquirer, LNP Jenkins Mangou , confirmed the arrest and detention of a woman identified as Docca, care taker of said church and sent to court in Ganta.
LNP Mangue , said preliminary investigation revealed that over thirty malnourished kid are in bad condition, hence the government’s intervention to reunite them with their families is expeditiously needed.
“Many of the kids according preliminary investigation who came from far places in some parts of the country need more food while waiting to reunite them with their biological parents,” said the LNP.
When contacted, Eva Jacob, Sunday school teacher and mother Yah Gonleah of Fire for Fire, said many of the children were brought to Mother of the church by their parents for witchery and some are orphaned.
Eva Jacob added that there are about fifty of the presently living in the church compound with Mother and some are orphaned.
Speaking also, Yah Gonleah said that the Mother who is supposed to speak in detail went to pray over somebody in some areas in Nimba but all the reports are false.
She said God will fight battle for them because (Mother) never tortured any of the kids but was trying her best to feed them every day.
During a guided tour at the compound, many kids were seen playing in the yard while some looked lanky and pale.
This is the second time for the LNP to investigate the Fire for Fire Church Mother for torturing kids believed to be witches in the county in less than two months.