A tragic incident occurred in the Oke-Ijeun area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, in Nigeria on Tuesday, resulting in the lynching of an elderly woman named Kehinde Ojo.
The mob’s brutal action was reportedly motivated by allegations of witchcraft.
Disturbing videos that circulated on social media showed the elderly woman visibly frail and unable to speak, being subjected to inhumane treatment while lying in a pit.
The old woman was accused by the mob of transforming from a large bird into a human in broad daylight.
According to a Saturday PUNCH report, a prophetess from a local white garment church raised the alarm, claiming that an old woman transformed from a bird into a human and fell onto her church’s roof while she was praying.
In a video, the prophetess and other community members were seen interrogating the old woman. The prophetess’s name could not be ascertained.
A video shows personnel from the state police command rescuing the woman. She was reportedly taken to the hospital but later died.
Narrating the incident to Saturday PUNCH, Kabir Kehinde, one of the deceased’s children, accused the prophetess and her son of beating his mother to death.
According to him, his mother lost her way while visiting his brother, who lived behind the church, on Monday evening and was attacked by the prophetess.
