"Ajegunle 'Bird' Woman Is Not A Witch, She Is Our Mother" Sons Proclaim!

Two men have surfaced claiming to be children of the elderly woman accused of being a flying witch who transformed from a big black bird into an old woman yesterday. She was resqued from an angry mob who almost lynched her around Ajegunle area of Lagos state.


The two grown up men says the octogenarian is thier mother and not a witch but a disciple of old age who wandered off from home and have been missing for some days.


 The mob had claimed that while the about 90 year old woman was being beaten, she had confessed to being a witch, who had flown to Ibadan, Oyo State for a meeting but got tired on returning from Lagos and fell from the sky. Fortunately, she got rescued by the police before the mob would cause serious damage to her and she was taken to the Area B Command.

Sources at the police command told PUNCH Metro that two of the sons of the victim showed up at the on Thursday after seeing their mother’s picture in the newspapers. The source said the two men explained that their mother had wandered off some days ago and they had been looking for her. The men, who said they lived in the Iju Ishaga area of the state were said to have been puzzled as to how their mother walked all the way to Ajegunle.

A policeman at the command said:

“This morning (Thursday), two men came to the command claiming that they were the sons of the woman. The men said their mother was not a witch and were very angry with the manner the rumour was spreading. They said they were shocked that youths could attack an old woman in her 80s and they were even asking for justice because the woman sustained bruises on her head.”

Another police source at the command said that the Area commander, ACP Ndubueze Anene, had transferred the woman to the command headquarters in Ikeja for further investigation. He said the sons had also gone to the headquarters to provide evidence that the woman was indeed their mother.

Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, told PUNCH Metro that the woman was not a witch and warned residents of the state against jungle justice. When asked if the woman had been released, Braide said:

“Yes she has been released to her son. The family said due to her old age, she was very ill and was brought from Ibadan to Lagos to stay with one of her sons. The woman’s daughter-in-law said she went to buy drugs for her nearby, but by the time she returned home, the woman had left the house.”