An activist recently rescued a 9-year-old boy, gift in Abia state after his father and stepmother left him in chains for weeks.
Harrison Gwanmishu, the activist who rescued the boy shared a video of the boy in chains with a tale that the 9-year-old boy has been subjected to various forms of degrading and inhumane treatment by his stepmother and father after losing his mother at birth.
According to reports, the father and the stepmother chained the little boy on Sunday July 4th and went out for a function. It was the neighbors that raised alarm, called a welder and rescued the boy.
Harrison says the boy has been handed over to the state Ministry of Women Affairs.
This case comes few days after the video of a woman flogging a young boy and throwing him into a dog cage surfaced online.
Watch the video below;
In other news, a pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Lugbe Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has raised alarm over the missing of his wife and four children.