A middle
aged woman, who gave her name as Florence, who was found with a dead 5 year old
child was apprehended around Mile 2 yesterday as she was about to be mobbed by
onlookers. The woman claimed that the dead child was hers, but the mob said she
could have kidnapped and killed the child for money ritual.
When Newsman
arrived the scene yesterday, the dead
child was seen lying by the side of the expressway, with Florence by his side.
Two Ghana must go bags were found by her side.
Inside the
bags were beverages, detergents and assorted clothes.continue
Though news
making the round earlier had it that the child’s eyes were plucked, but we
discovered that the eyeballs were only popped.
Information
gathered revealed that the woman had been sighted in the area with the child
strapped at her back for three days.
An onlooker
said: “One man in a commercial bus alerted us yesterday that the child strapped
at the back was motionless. This attracted some curious passengers of
commercial buses that were trapped in this unending gridlock. One of the
passengers went close to the woman and shook the baby. Before you knew it,
people had gathered around the woman, wanting to set her ablaze. But for the
timely arrival of policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad she would have
been dead by now.”
When Newmen
approached the woman , she said: “I am from Umo in Kwale area of Delta State. I
was born in Lagos and I have three children. Nothing is wrong with me. This
child (pointing to the dead child) is my son. He is the last of my three
children. I have a boy and a girl who are in the village. His name is Chidi and
he is five years old.
“He has been
very sick. In fact, he had fever and needed blood transfusion but I couldn’t
afford the money for it. He died three days ago. Before he died, we wanted to
travel back to the village. My husband stays in Port Harcourt.”
When asked
to give his husband’s telephone number she said: “The paper where I wrote his
number has been destroyed by rain. I don’t have any relative in Lagos. I was
living under a staircase in one of the shops located in Alaba market. A
security man allowed my son and I to sleep there at night. I didn’t steal any
baby neither did I kill any child.
“I was
carrying Chidi on my back after he died, only for people to gather around me
this morning and started beating me. What have I done to deserve this kind of
beating? If not for these policemen, they would have beaten me to death.”
Asked what
her mission in Lagos was, she said she came to take care of him here. Some
people were of the opinion that she was insane but the Police said that would
be ascertained in the course of investigation
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