People came out in the 1000s to protest the boys' ritual killing. They stayed around and within the hotel premises, waiting for the police to confirm that it was indeed a ritual murder while more were matching and trooping to the scene of the Ritual Murder as the news was spreading. On 19th September 1996, during the regime of late General Sani Abacha, in the city of Owerri – Imo State, an innocent 11-year-old boy named Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo was murdered for Ritual purposes. The little boy was hawking boiled groundnuts, which was his daily routine. He strolled along, selling his groundnuts for peanuts to whoever wanted to buy them. When he got to Amakohia area of Owerri, his eyes lit up with joy when a customer beckoned him to approach. That ‘customer’ was named Innocent Ekeanyanwu, aged 32. The boy was called into the famous Otokoto Hotel and the little groundnut seller was visibly very excited since it was a hotel, which meant that the new ‘customer’ would proba...