Pandemonium has broken out in a Bayelsa state community after angry youths descended on a lady who allegedly confessed to have poisoned her sister-in-law.
Some aggrieved Ijaw youths have descended on a lady who allegedly confessed to have poisoned her sister-in-law, who reportedly collapsed on Sunday morning and died some minutes on her way to the hospital in Agudama Epie community in Bayelsa state.
According to online reports, the victim was a 37-year-old mother of eight children named Pinaere Promise from Ndoro In Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered that the woman identified as Mama Torufa allegedly confessed to have poisoned the deceased after she started acting funny and had swollen face coupled with some sickness following the burial of her late sister-in-law.
Mama Torufa’s hands got paralyzed a night before service of songs for the victim and was absent from her home for two days.
The woman’s absence coupled with the strange ailments prompted people to ask her daughter about her whereabouts, that was when the news broke that suspect, Mama Torufa, was in a church across the creek of Agudama in the area.
She was said to have confessed to being responsible for the death of the sister-in-law that was buried last Friday in Ndoro town, and the youths who got wind of the situation, descended on the woman’s home and destroyed her properties.
Relatives of the deceased this morning stormed the said church where she was and vandalized it after they couldn’t see her.
Source: News Agencies
