Zainab Labbo
A 65 year old elderly woman has been put under the rod in Sokoto state according to reports reaching us from Sunnewsonline.
The victim, one Zainab Labbo was submitted to twelve strokes at the palace of the District Head, Alhaji Nasiru Malami Ahmed as punishment for allegedly practicing witchcraft.
Residents in the area told Jourlistsa that the flogging was due to a complaint lodged against the victim’s daughter-in-law.
The daughter-in-law had filed a complaint to the traditional ruler saying that the mother-in-law was helping her son through diabolical means to maltreat her.
The lady was then said to have been found guilty by the palace authorities who tried her against the grave allegations.
She denied being a witch to journalists who came to investigate the situation but she also confirmed that twelve strokes were administered on her by the palace guards on the order of the District Head.
The residents who were angry with such punishment cried that this was not the first flogging to be orchestrated by palace authorities.
They added that many residents have been invited to the palace and summarily tried for one offence or the other.“Our people are under siege by the gross and jungle justice of the palace authorities but nobody was ready to speak out before now.
“We are just courageous enough to invite you people (journalists) to Isa town and see things for yourselves. We have decided to tell the whole world what we are passing through at Isa district. To let the whole world khow we are being subjected to a jungle justice system by the palace authorities”, the locals complained.
A resident of the town, Alhaji Sani Dallatu, also accused the younger brother of the District Head, Alhaji Aliyu Sarkin-Yamma, for “sponsoring an attack on him”.
The residents in the area have cried out to state governor, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, to come to their aid, and treat it as a matter of urgency.
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