A female lawyer, Uduak Adams, is demanding justice for the attack she suffered at the hands of a mob that would have killed her after she was wrongly accused of kidnapping a boy.
Adams told our correspondent that the incident happened on September 16, 2023, on Aborisade Street in the Surulere area of Lagos State when she went to inspect a house she wanted to rent and she asked the boy for directions.
She noted that she was shocked when a few minutes after she left the spot where she spoke with the boy, his mother approached her and accused her of kidnapping him from their compound.
Adams added that the woman’s shout attracted people who descended on her.
“Immediately, people gathered. They carried planks, and sticks, dragged me, and didn’t give me a chance to explain. They dragged me and started beating me,” she recalled.
In a video sighted by our correspondent, some people were seen dragging and molesting her.
“The crowd brought tyres and wanted to burn me. They told me that I was going to die, that even the police and Army could not save me. They said they were about to kill me and I should start saying my last prayers,” she added.
Adams narrated that as they kept beating her, the boy returned.
She said after inquiring from the boy what happened and he explained that he and his friends only assisted her in locating a house and then left her to go and play football, the crowd started dispersing, while the mother started begging.
Policemen from Itire Police Division were said to have immediately arrested some of the attackers including the boy’s mother.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos State chapter, Bisi Makanjuola, said, “The NBA Lagos is looking at the case and we will do all that we can to ensure that she gets justice and that she is rehabilitated.”
Attempts to reach the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, proved abortive as he was not reachable on the telephone and the text messages sent to him were not responded to.
