Boy Whose Eyes Were Plucked Out By Ritualists Set to Get Artificial Ones

Boy Whose Eyes Were Plucked Out By Ritualists Set to Get Artificial Ones

Boy Whose Eyes Were Plucked Out By Ritualists Set to Get Artificial Ones

The young boy who had is eyes tragically plucked
out by cruel ritualists is mercifully set to get
artificial ones in their place.
Authorities of Ahmadu Bello University
Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, Kaduna
State, on Thursday, promised to get artificial
eyes for the three-year-old boy, Sadiq
Usman, whose eyes were plucked by
unknown persons.
It will be recalled that recalls that Usman
lost his two eyes to unknown persons
suspected to be ritualists in Zaria, Kaduna
State, recently.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of ABUTH,
Prof. Lawal Khali, told the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria that the hospital had
the expertise to carry out the replacement of
the eyes.
He said “this is not the first time such
replacement is carried out in the hospital, as
such, it is not something difficult. The
artificial eyes cost less and it is accessible
anytime the need arise,” he said.
On the preliminary surgery carried out on
the boy at the hospital’s Ophthalmology
Department, the hospital boss said that the
victim was responding to treatment.
He explained that the surgery was aimed at
reshaping the boy’s face as it was disfigured
by the suspected ritualists in the process of
removing the eyes by force.
He said that “in the long run, we will
replace the eyes with artificial ones to
interrupt any possible disease but the boy
will no longer see because the sight is
already gone.”
He said the artificial eyes would be changed
periodically, commensurate to the size of
the victim as he grows up.
Responding, the boy’s father, Malam Usman
Usman, popularly called “Auta” thanked the
public for the support and prayers.
He specifically thanked the Emir of Zazzau,
Alhaji Shehu Idris, Sen. Shehu Sani (APC
Kaduna Central) and Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i
of Kaduna State for supporting the family in
the treatment of the victim.