Residents of Ajegunle area of Lagos were yesterday thrown
into shock after a bird was said to have transformed into an old woman who
confessed to being a witch, Vanguard reports.
The dark-complexioned nonagenarian with tribal marks, who
spoke in Yoruba, told a bewildered crowd that she was on her way back to
Ibadan, Oyo State (as a bird) when she missed her track.
She was also said to have told the mammoth crowd that her
mystical powers disappointed her because it was dawn. Then, all of a sudden,
one of them landed on a moving pick‑up van
owned by Eko Electricity Distribution Company.
An eye witness who identified himself simply as Mr Okafor said: “Immediately the bird landed on the van, it transformed into an old
woman.
“Everyone ran away at
first but we later gathered round the woman only to discover that she had a
bruise on her forehead with which she landed.“When we asked her what her
mission was, she said three of them were sent to Lagos from their coven in
Ibadan but that on their way back, they missed their way.
“She said they started
hovering in the area until it was morning, adding that she fell because she was
tired. “She also told us that she initially did not want to embark on the
journey and that she used to restrict her witchcraft activities to Ibadan
because of her age.
“She was thereafter
taken to the Baale of Ajeromi, where she confessed to have killed her husband
through witchcraft.”
Policemen from Layeni
Police Division were said to have been contacted to prevent the woman from
being lynched and they came and took her away.
Police sources told Vanguard
that the woman would be released to any of her relations showed up, explaining
that the law does not recognize witchcraft.
“She has not committed
any crime and will, therefore, be released to any member of her family who
shows up. We did not arrest her. We only prevented a likely jungle justice,”
the police source said.
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