It was gathered that the weird-looking octogenarian was found in a swampy spot around Ogbemudia road area of the metropolis in the early hours of Friday.
Sources said residents of the area had at about 3am heard the sound of someone wailing in the neighbourhood, saying the people who held back for fear of the unknown, came out from their homes at about 5.30 am to figure out what the problem was.
On locating the spot where the sound was coming from, a source in the neighbourhood said the elderly woman, who was clad in a blouse and a piece of cloth tied around her waist was found lying on the ground.
“When they got there, they discovered that she could barely walk, so they raised an alarm and gradually a crowd began to gather.
‘’When she was brought out from the swamp, they interrogated her and she confessed that she was a witch. She actually said she was on her way from a night party when she found herself in the pit,” a source who spoke on condition of anonymity said.
The source said her confession drew the ire of the people who brutalised, hitting her with all sorts of objects.
He said the woman was, however, rescued by some of her children and men of Oleh vigilante team who stormed the scene and dispersed the crowd.
It was learned that some of the woman’s children said their mother was not a witch and that had she had been suffering from brain disorder after an accident she had sometime ago.
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