Father Nails his Two Children On the Cross in Calabar , accused them of witchcraft

In another gut wrenching and bizarre revelation by the
Child's Right And Rehabilitation Network(CRARN) a
40year old man, John Friday Akpan from Akwa Ibom
State, resident in Calabar the Cross River State capital,
is now explaining to the police how he heeded the
advice of a herbalist, "Dr." Okokon and eventually
tagged his two children, Elisha Friday Akpan and Esther
Friday Akpan as witches and wizards.
An act reminiscent of the nailing of Jesus Christ on the
Cross, Friday Akpan subjected his two children aged, 12
and 6 respectively, to harrowing treatment by nailing
them to a plank in shape of a cross and locking them up
in a dark, thatch hut without food for weeks. He claimed
that the children took his money to their "master in the
witchcraft coven and therefore deserve no mercy". He
told the police.
Following weeks starvation, the two children whose
emaciated and dirty physical appearance replicate the
gory images of starving children in famine-ravaged
Somalia and war-torn Sudan said they survived by
water which was supplied to them by one of the man's
kids from another woman.
"Our sister, Peace usually bring us water inside the hut
when our father and our mother had gone out". Esther
said.
Their father, the kids said, used to reside in Akpabuyo,
Cross River State, Nigeria with the family where he sent
them to a private school, Regent Nursery and Primary
School, Ikot Nkanda but when their mother died and the
man took another wife, Iquo, the story changed.
"My mother (stepmother), said the woman who used to
live near our house in Akpabuyo gave us food and she
put something (witchcraft spell) in the food and when
we ate it we changed to bird at night and took our
fathers money to 'our master' in the witchcraft world".
Elisha who is a JSS one student of Regent said.
According to the kids, Elisha was alleged to have taken
4,000 Naira while Esther took 2,000 Naira and that
angered their father and step-mother who started
beating them severely and denying them food "because
they said we took their money to our master in the
witchcraft coven. This is something I don’t even
understand"