Wonder will
never cease in Lagos. Residents of Ajegunle community 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 and all her laundry list of evil.Vanguard reports
The
seemingly old 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.
Eye-witnesses
told Vanguard that three black birds were seen at about 7am, flying side‑by‑side along Old Ojo Road.
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
who shows up, explaining that the law does not recognise 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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