Two men, Mbashinya Abata and Terna Ikyondu, have been banished by Konshisha Local Government Traditional Council in Benue State for allegedly killing two girls through witchcraft.
The victims, Mbasen and Mbawuese, were mysteriously drowned in River Agberagba last week.
The Nation reports that after the bodies were recovered from the river as youths mobilised and apprehended the suspects who confessed to killing the girls inside the river.
The suspects were almost lynched by a mob, but for the intervention of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Fidelis Jombo, who led a police team to rescue them.
It was learnt that the traditional ruler of Konsshisha (Ter Ikyor), Chief Jam Gbiinde, and his council-in-chief had banished the suspects from the community.
He said such action would not be tolerated in his community and warned his subjects against witchcraft practice.
