A woman said to be mentally-challenged
escaped being lynched by an angry mob on Wednesday (April 16) after she was
allegedly caught with N100,000, two BlackBerry phones and an android phone.
The incident which occurred around 10am happened around Onabanjo Street,
Oworonshoki, Lagos State. Two ATM cards were also found on the woman. A resident,
James Ogunkoya, told PUNCH when some youths saw the woman with some money, they
trailed her into a compound.
The youths suspected her of being a ritual killer; they pounced on her and beat her to a pulp. Ogunkoya said: Around 10am, I saw a crowd around an unkempt woman. Some of the youths picked up sticks and were beating the woman. When I asked what was wrong, they said they found three phones and N100,000 with her.
They said the woman was not mad, but was only pretending to be mad so that she could easily perpetrate evil acts. Policemen attached to the Oworonshoki Police Division were alerted by the noise of the crowd gathered at the scene. A police team was said to have rescued the woman from the mob.
The woman was seen lying on a bench near the counter of the police station, when PUNCH correspondent visited the station. She had a burst lip while her arms were bleeding.
A policeman told PUNCH on the condition of anonymity, that all attempts to verify the allegations were fruitless. He said: I have been asking the woman questions all day, but she has just been incoherent. She has even refused to tell us her name. At some point, she just started crying, so I let her sleep. I don’t even know if she is a mad woman.
Also, when she was arrested and we searched her, we did not find any money, phone or ATM cards on her. Nobody has come to write any statement here at the station.
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