Channelstv reveals true story behind boy buried alive inside walls in Ondo

Last week, the report of a boy said to have been
sealed in the wall of a house in Ondo town in
western Nigeria spread.
After that story was told on online news platforms
but without details, rumours have been circulating
about the reality of the occurrence.
To get the true picture of the incident, Channels
Television crew visited the town in Ondo State and
was at the very house where the incident
happened.
A bungalow located on 3B Akinfemisoye Street,
Oduduwa Area in New Town, Ondo city in Ondo
West Local Government Area of Ondo State was
where the boy was found.
The boy is said to have fallen between the walls of
a building and a fence.
According to the information gathered, the owner
of the house had travelled out of the country
several years ago. But the building at the back is
being inhabited by tenants who are students of the
Adeyemi College of Education in the town.
Charity Adebayo is one of the students living in the
compound. She told Channels Television that the
boy, who is suspected to be mentally deranged,
fell into the little space between the walls of the
house and a food canteen next to it.
“We started hearing the boy saying
meaningless things from inside the wall,”
she said.
Charity explained that at daybreak, people came
and broke the fence and brought him out.
According to her, the grandmother of the boy
came to pick him.
Felicia Olaniyi, who operates the food canteen at
the other side, gave her own account of the story
in Yoruba language.
“The boy was said to have escaped from
his grandmother one evening while she
was taking him to a church for healing.
“The boy must have fallen in-between the
walls of the two buildings,” she said.
According to her, after they heard the voice of the
boy in the wall, it attracted people’s attention and
a ladder was brought. “He was discovered in the
space and the wall was broken,” she explained.
She said the residents also alerted the police
before the boy was brought out and also
corroborated Charity’s claims that he was taken
away by his grandmother.
Michael Gbala, a medical practitioner, who also
lives in the neighbourhood told Channels
Television that he learnt that the boy was mentally
deranged.
Determined to get to the root of the matter and
more revelations, Channels Television crew
proceeded to the church where the boy was taken
to by his grandmother for healing, overseen by an
old woman,
Prophetess Dorcas Adebayo said the boy’s
grandmother took him away from her church
She explained in Yoruba language that the
grandmother brought the boy for healing but later
came back to take him away.
She believes the boy must have, in a bid to
escaped from the grandmother after she took him
away from the church, fallen into the wall.
The old prophetess said she did not know the
boy’s whereabouts ever since.
A little boy also gave his account of the story,
saying the boy had been taken to the State
Specialist Hospital in town.
At the hospital sources said that the boy’s name is
Aduragbemi Saka and that he was admitted but
had since been discharged.
Channels Television, however, got to know the
address of the boy and his grandmother.
On getting to the house, the one storey building
was locked with a padlock.
The residents of the street refused to speak to
reporters, but however said that they knew the
boy but had not been seen him for a long time.