A supposedly mad woman has been caught with twenty five SIM cards,
two Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards, different bank tellers and a
working mobile telephone. The items were reportedly recovered from her yesterday at Oshodi bus stop, Lagos State.
The woman has been living at the spot
in the last two years. The items were discovered when the officials of
the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), who wanted to use the place,
tried to evacuate her.
An NRC official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
discovery of the SIM cards, ATM cards and bank tellers came to them as a
surprise.
He said: “The woman has being living at the spot for some time now. Recently,
a canteen was built close to the spot where she is sitting, but some
people who patronise the canteen always complain about the presence of
the woman.
"To our surprise, when we were about to evacuate her from the
spot, about 25 SIM cards, two ATM cards, different bank tellers and a
phone were recovered from her. We don’t want another incident similar to
that of Clifford Orji where human parts were recovered.
"We suspect the woman has someone she is working for. We are
going to hand her over to the task force because we don’t want to take
chances. The woman was behaving normally when we moved close to her, but
suddenly she started putting up a strange behaviour and pretending to
be a lunatic. We don’t see her to be what she is claiming.”
New Telegraph reports that a trader, who identified herself simply
as Rebecca, said that she did not believe the woman was a lunatic.
“She used to come to my shop to buy detergent to wash her
clothes and to bathe. I was surprised when she started behaving
strangely now.
"Whenever she comes to buy from me, she always comes with crisp
N500 notes. “There was a day I closed late, I saw someone who parked
beside the road and was discussing with the woman. But I did not hear
what they were saying.
"Out of curiosity, I went to her the following day to ask her
who the person was. She said those who come to visit her were her family
members. Government should clear lunatics from Oshodi and its
environs,” she said.
Another trader, who did not want her name in print, said the woman never begged for alms from passers-by. She said:
“We also want the police to beam their searchlight on that
angle, because she was not soliciting alms from people. They should ask
her where she is getting the money she is spending from, because we
don’t want to lose our children in the market.”
No comments:
Post a Comment