Tragedy as Man Dies Mysteriously After Stealing Idol In Taraba .

Tragedy struck as a middle-aged man has died three days after stealing an idol from a Tiv community in Taraba state.

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We gathered that that the man had gone to a Tiv community which was affected by the ongoing Tiv/Jukun crisis to loot and eventually took away the idol kept in a shrine.

RAB further gathered that the man, after stealing the object brought it to his room secretly without informing his co-looters what he had stolen.

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 A community source in Wukari, Shamaki Solomon, revealed  that the man could not sleep the day he stole the idol.


The idol which is a deity in the community was used as a means of protection by traditionalists in the village. According to Solomon, the man had later confessed that he heard a loud sound in his room saying ‘l need blood to drink’, saying the sound came from the position where he hide the stolen idol.

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 According to the source, the man after hearing the sound, could not sleep for three days. Solomon stated that the man became sick, lost his senses and died later. On what happens with the antiquity, the source said everyone was afraid to touch the antiquity which the victim hid in a bag.

 At time of filing this report,  Police spokesman in Taraba state, DSP David Misal, said the matter was not reported to the police command.