Wonders, they say, shall never end. Yes, it was a great wonder and an unbelievable occurrence to many of us, who witnessed the scene at the Megida area of Ayobo, a Lagos suburb, last Friday night.
Pandemonium break out in the area at about 9:00pm last Friday as residents of the area apprehended a man suspected to be a ritualist.
The man, who was clutching a black polythene bag containing suspected mutilated body parts of a child, was accosted by some eagle-eyed persons in the area.
At first, the man, who declined to disclose the content of the bag he was carrying and rather clutched tightly onto it, when challenged by the residents, later capitulated, after he was given some beating.
As if we were all watching one of those make-believe Nollywood movies, the two chunk of suspected human flesh suddenly transformed and became something else. While one changed to a tuber of yam, the other became a white pigeon!
When they successful wrenched the bag from him, what was found inside it shocked every body: Two decomposing large chunk of meat suspected to be human parts! More blows and beatings fell on the suspect.
Angered residents then began to search for disused vehicle tyres and petrol to set the suspected ritualist ablaze.
It was at this juncture that policemen from the nearby Ayobo Division stormed the scene to rescue the suspect. But one surprising thing occurred as the police arrived at the scene of the incident to take away the suspect.
As if we were all watching one of those make-believe Nollywood movies, the two chunk of suspected human flesh suddenly transformed and became something else. While one changed to a tuber of yam, the other became a white pigeon!
This unexpected and strange development scared some of the residents, who immediately took their heels. Some others, who did not feel threatened by this “magic,” stood their ground and insisted on lynching the suspected ritualist.
With the atmosphere becoming more charged, the policemen immediately decided to whisk away the suspect to their station. But the matter did not end there.
Determined to mete out jungle justice to the suspect, many angry residents besieged the police station, demanding that the suspected ritualist be released to them so that they could deal with him their own way.
Policemen at the station, however, did not accede to their request and took every security measures to keep the protesting angry residents at bay. But the residents, who were bent on taking their pound of flesh from the suspect, refused to leave the vicinity of the station, despite the threats by the police.
As the night wore on, many of the residents keeping vigil at the police station had to leave one after the other, but not without the threat to the police that they would return the following morning with “full force.” Efforts to speak with the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station proved abortive.
