Ilorin woman steals bags of rice and beans with mysterious powers

Operatives of Kwara State Police Command, ‘A’ Division, has reportedly arrested a 27-year-old woman identified as Kafayat Abdulsalam, who is said to possess supernatural power to steal food.

Kafayat was reportedly arrested with stolen bags of rice and beans and some other food items she allegedly stole with mysterious powers.

She was said to be in the habit of touching the food items in the name of procuring the items, but ends up not buying them.

The traders who claimed that the touched food items disappears some moment later and re-surfaces in the woman’s lone building at Oko Olowo area of Ilorin.

According to Vanguard, the suspect was arrested by the Police command last week following series of complaints from some members of the public about a woman, who goes around, using mystic powers to move goods from their shops to her own domain.

A witness to the arrest of Kafayat by police, Abdul Suleiman, told Vanguard that about N2 million was found on her during the interrogation.

But the statement released by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed the arrest, refuted the claim that money found in her home was up to N2 million.

Okasanmi also confirmed that policemen found food items with the suspect, also saying that the suspect was in the habit of going to shops pretending to be a buyer and allegedly stole items with supernatural powers in the process.

He added that the suspect confessed to the police that she display those stolen items in her shop for sale but investigation on the matter is still on-going.