Police have described the woman who claimed her husband wanted to use her and daughter for money ritual in a viral video as a psychiatric patient.
The woman who was found tied up at the back of an SUV, with her child crying in the passenger seat, was rescued by passersby who heard her screaming for help from a moving car.
The woman who spoke in Yoruba could be heard in the video saying: “My husband and his friend are on their way to use us for money ritual.”
She also claimed that she had three children for her husband but he has already used two of them for money rituals.
But the police in a statement today by DSP Bala Elkana, the Public Relations Officer, said the woman was being taken to the hospital by her husband and his younger brother when she allegedly raised the false alarm.
The statement says it took the timely intervention of policemen who were alerted to the incident to prevent the victims from being lynched to death by a mob.
The families of both the man and the woman were reportedly invited to the police station to corroborate the facts of the incident, the statement further said.
Elkana said the relations also brought the couple’s two older children, who the woman claimed the husband had used for money ritual, to the police station.
The victims, who were severely injured by the mob, are receiving treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, while the woman is receiving medical attention at an undisclosed hospital.
