An elderly woman escaped lynching on
Wednesday after being accused of being a bird and witch in the Ajegunle
area of Lagos State.
According to residents of Ojo Road,
where the purported transformation took place, the woman was a black
bird before suddenly turning into a human being.
Hundreds of residents were said to have gathered around the woman to lynch her.
An eyewitness, Chike, said he was sitting in front of a compound with his girlfriend when they saw three black birds flying.
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He said it seemed as if the birds were
involved in a fight and as he was watching, suddenly, one of the birds
fell into a moving van belonging to the Eko Electricity Distribution
Company while the other two flew away.
He said, “The bird suddenly turned to an
old woman of about 80. People were shocked as they saw the woman
rolling on the road and blood gushing out from her forehead.
“When the crowd was interrogating her,
she said she was a witch and that she came from Ibadan for a meeting in
Lagos but as they were returning home they missed their way and wasted
so much time hovering in the area till daybreak. The woman claimed she
fell because she was tired of flying.”
It was learnt that as the woman was
about to be lynched, the traditional ruler of Layeni Community, Baale
Rafiu Olayeni, arrived the scene and pleaded with the angry people not
to take laws into their hands.
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