Locals beat a man to the pulp after he was caught with N250,000, three iPhones, and women’s undergarments in Ogun state, claiming that he was mentally ill.
It was gathered that the suspect, who stays under the bridge in Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, was spotted answering a phone on Thursday, July 29, and it made neighbours concerned to witness an allegedly mad guy answering a call.
Residents asked where he got the phone from but he couldn’t give a suitable response so he tried to flee, according to Punch.
Residents apprehended him before he could get very far and searched him. They allegedly discovered N250,000, three iPhones, and women’s undergarments in his hands, and he was beaten by the villagers.
The eyewitness added: “He had been at the Mowe bus stop for long and when some passers-by saw what we found on him, they pounced on him and beat him.
“We later handed him over to the police, but policemen at the Mowe Police Division said they could not accommodate a lunatic in their station. Only God knows who he was calling.”
A trader in the area, identified simply as Yetunde, said the suspect was beaten when he refused to disclose who he was talking to on the phone.
She said, “When he was asked who he was talking to, he refused to talk; it was the annoyance that made people to start beating him and wondering where a lunatic got such amount of money, phones and women pants and bra from. This is an eye-opener to everyone in Mowe. Only God knows how many atrocities he has committed in Mowe.
“Probably he is working with ritualists because I don’t know where he got the money and the phones, and maybe the underwear belong to women he raped or killed and sold their body parts.”
Source: Gossips24.com
