Boy buried alive in kogi is an orphan–Sources
By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja.

Master Friday Oshodi.
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Master Friday Oshodi, the eleven-year-old boy buried alive by his half brother, Goodness Oshodi at Apamsede, near Lokoja, Kogi state, north central Nigeria, on allegation of stealing N1,000, is an orphan.
Our correspondent gathered from sources at Apamsede on Thursday that Friday lost his mother few years ago and was made to stay with his step mother and his father.
The Reporters recalls that the news of the burial of Friday alive, by his brother, broke out on Wednesday morning in Lokoja, a development that set thousands of tongues wagging.
Though Friday cheated death as some good samaritans wrestled him from ordeal of his half brother and exhumed him from the grave, he looked traumatized psychologically, coupled with swollen face.
In a video recorded by a member of the public and put on media space, Goodness said that he was ordered by his mother to punish Friday for stealing N1,000.
Friday, however, did not state the nature of punishment his mother ordered him to met out to Friday.
The Police Publication Relations Officer, PPRO,for the Police Command in the state, SP William Aya, said that the police had arrested Goodness and commenced investigation into the case.
The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Fatima Kabir Buba, vowed that the state government would prosecute
all the suspects involved in burying Friday Oshodi alive.
Buba,who disclosed this while speaking with Journalists on the development in Lokoja on Thursday, added that the ministry was also making necessary arrangement to put the victim in an orphanage home.
According to her, information reaching the ministry indicates that the boy is being maltreated by her step mother and brother, assuring that the state government would ensure that justice is served on all the perpetuators of the evil act.
She reiterated that the Government under Alhaji Yahaya Bello remained committed in protecting the Boy and Girl-Child, warning that any guardian carrying out ill-human treatment on their wards would face the full wrath of the law.
The commissioner said: “the victim, Friday Oshodi, is currently in our custody while the prime suspect, Goodness Oshodi is in Police net.
“This is wickedness of the highest order. How will some body bury is fellow human alive?
” The Woman who ordered for the punishment of this young boy is currently at large.
“Am assuring the general public that she will be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law”.
The incident, our correspondent gathered, occurred at Silo community, Apamisede in Zango Daji, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.