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A middle-aged woman, Ope Kubona, caused
a stir in Kubwa, Abuja, on Monday, when she was found naked on the rooftop of
the All Saint’s Fellowship Church close to the Kubwa Village market.
Kubona, who sold beans cake and was well known in
the neighbourhood, was branded a witch by the huge number of spectators that
were drawn to the scene, but the quick intervention of the police saved her
from being lynched by the angry mob.
The police team, led by the Kubwa Divisional
Police Officer, Surajudeen Ayobami, brought down Kubona from the roof and asked
her children to bring items of clothing for her before she was taken to the
station.
The DPO told PUNCH Metro that Kubona was
brought to the station and placed under protective custody in view of the
aggression of the crowd towards her.
He said, “We rescued the woman from the All
Saint’s Fellowship Church, where we found her naked on the rooftop. I learnt
she has psychiatric problems, but the spectators believed she was a witch and
wanted to attack her, so we had to bring her to the station and place her under
protective custody.”
At the Police station, the woman went berserk,
shouting at her children and the policemen. She almost attacked a pregnant
woman, who attempted to take her picture with a smart phone.
Talking to no one in particular, she described
herself as a “prayer warrior” and abused her children for disrupting her peace.
Attempts to engage her in a conversation failed as she refused to respond to
questions from PUNCH Metro.
One of her children, Elizabeth,21, said her
mother had been behaving strangely for about three months, adding that moves to
take her back to her village in Okitipupa, Ondo State, failed, as she refused
to leave the house.
Elizabeth said she observed that her mother
disappeared from their room around 4am, and was later found stark naked on the
roof of the church.
“It was around 4am that I noticed that she was
not in the room, but I didn’t know where to search for her because it was dark.
But in the morning, one of our neighbours saw her on the roof of the church and
came to tell us that our mother was on the church roof. The police later came
and brought her down, “she said.
Punch
1 comment:
Question is how did she get on the roof top?
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