Woman Accused Of Turning Into Cat Escapes Death In Abia State
A
businesswoman in Aba, Abia State, Mrs. Ngozi Okoye narrowly escaped
being lynched over the disappearance of a mysterious cat, suspected to
be a product of witchcraft.
Ironically, she was the victim of the cat that was initially found in
her home and it took the intervention of journalists and policemen to
save her from a mob action.
Narrating her ordeal, Mrs. Okoye said for long, she had observed that
money she kept in a firmly locked cardboard in her room at No.1 Obu
Street/Obohia Road in Aba was always missing mysteriously.
The woman, who sells fruits near the Aba Shopping Centre, said at a point, she suspected her children and kept a watch on them.
But when she realized that her children were innocent, she reasoned
that what was happening to her had spiritual undertone and reported the
matter to a man of God.
Mrs. Okoye said after observing some prayer points as directed by the
pastor and the problem persisted, she contacted another man of God in
her desperate bid to get the problem solved.
This time around, she was told to fast and pray for a given number of
days along with the clergy man who would also pray for her over the
issue.
The woman said after the fasting session, the problem stopped and on
that day of the incident, she was taken aback when she wanted to collect
some cash from inside the cardboard and touched a strange object.
When she opened the cardboard properly and pointed a torchlight
towards the direction she kept the money, she saw a half dead p*ssy cat
with some naira notes stuffed in its mouth.
Shocked at the strange creature, she raised the alarm and alerted the
man of God whom she had met initially over the issue, just as people in
the neighborhood trooped to her house to catch a glimpse of the ‘witch’
p*ssy cat.
She said the man of God advised her to bring the now dead cat to him before it could be buried.
Confusion crept in as the now restive crowd wanted the cat to be
burnt, but the woman insisted that she must take it to the man of God
and put the cat in a bag and headed for the man of God’s house while the
crowd, which caused traffic gridlock on the ever busy Asa/Ehi Road
followed her, insisting that she must give them the cat to be burnt.
In the melee that followed, the cat was said to have disappeared and
the crowd turned against the woman, accusing her of being the witch cat
and was about lynching her when she ran into a shop close to a
commercial bank at the shopping centre.
Despite the pleadings of policemen providing security at the bank,
the crowd surged forward and the situation was saved when a group of
journalists who came to the scene alerted the police.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Ndiegoro Division, Mr.
Crescent Mama, sent his men to the scene, but the crowd which had
blocked the entire road, could not let go. It took police re-enforcement
for the woman who had been smuggled into the bank premises to be taken
away after the crowd had been reasonably dispersed.
Bemoaning her fate, the woman vehemently denied the allegation and
rained curses on whoever that turned into the cat that had been stealing
her money mysteriously.
The police at Ndiegoro later released her after being kept in protective custody as investigations were ongoing into the matter.
Mr.
Chibuzo Asomugha, the National Chairman of the Union, gave this
indication in a chat with P.M.NEWS in the morning of September 30, 2013,
Monday.
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