The Rivers State Police Command in Rivers has commenced investigations into an incident, in which a cat allegedly turned into a woman along a major road in the state capital, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday.
The command�s spokesperson, Mrs. Rita Abbey, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Friday that the woman , whom a crowd accused of witchcraft, was still in protective custody at a private clinic. NAN reports that armed policemen were drafted to guard the clinic in which the woman suspect has been kept since the incident occurred. Abbey said that currently, the police lacked adequate information to charge the woman to court as it had no evidence to do so.
According to her, �Our decision to keep her at the clinic is to ensure she gets treated of the injuries she sustained from the mob, who almost lynched her at the scene of the incident. Though the woman had confessed she actually turned from a cat into a human being and came from Buguma area of Rivers State, that is not enough evidence to arraign her in court.�
Eyewitnesses had told NAN that at mid day on Wednesday, at the Garrison junction along Aba road, a car knocked down a cat, which later turned into a middle-aged woman. The witness said that after the accident, a crowd gathered at the site, saw the woman with blood and became curious.