Our sons’ blood will cry out against their killers – Parents of missing boys found dead in church premises

They were seen playing at 4pm on Sunday April 3, 2016. By 6.30pm, they had vanished.

The bodies of six-year-old Isaac Ayegbo, a primary two pupil, and four-year-old Ayomide Innocent, a nursery one pupil, would later be found in a car parked on the premises of Christ Crusaders’ Deliverance Ministry, Lanbe, Lagos in a grisly murder that has set on edge the children’s quiet Matogun community in Lanbe.

The church is just few metres away from the homes of the children’s parents.

On Thursday, when Saturday PUNCH visited the homes of the children’s parents, they walked our correspondent through the critical time frame of their disappearance up till the following day when they were found dead.

The narration ended with each parent sighing and swearing bitterly that the blood of their children would cry out of the ground to ensure their killer was caught.

Isaac’s mother, Omolola, spoke few words. Her bulging and red eyes were signs of the incessant sobbing she had been doing since Wednesday, which was the day her husband, Abiodun, finally summoned the courage to inform her that their son’s body had been found.

Even despite that, maternal denial would not allow her to accept that her child was actually dead.

The Ayebos

“I would never believe my son is dead. Ever! Until I see his body, I would never believe he is dead,” she told our correspondent.

Omolola’s state of denial has to do with the fact that she has yet to reconcile herself with the fact that her son and his playmate, who were “merely playing outside” could later be found dead.

She said, “My son had never ventured into that church compound to play and neither had his friend, Ayomide. No child can possibly go into that church compound to play because the compound is always locked.

“The two boys had changed their clothes after we came back from church. They were wearing their underwear alone when they went outside to play around 4pm. By 6.30pm when I was no longer hearing their voices outside, I called out to Isaac. When I did not hear their voices and they did not answer my call, I was not still worried.

“Even when my call for the boys started to catch the attention of our neighbours, I still did not believe anything bad could have happened to them. We went from house to house and people kept telling us that they would show up. But now, I was told that my son’s body was found in a vehicle in the church. Well, God is on the throne. I am sure his blood will cry out from the ground and reveal the face of the killer whether it is one person or more.”

Isaac’s father said he still could not wrap his head around the fact that the killer of the boys might have finalised his plan when the whole neighbourhood was busy looking for them.

A pastor of the church, who is now in custody of the Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State, had told the police that some members of the church discovered the bodies of the boys when they wanted to take a nap inside the car. But our correspondent noticed a luxurious bus parked beside the car in which the boys’ bodies were found when he visited the church premises.