Three persons suspected to be Fulani men who use monkeys to entertain people and collect money in the process, narrowly escaped being lynched in Enugu when a passer-by lost the sum of N200, 000 he just withdrew from bank.
Eyewitness told DailyPost that the victim’s money miraculously disappeared from his pocket when one of the monkeys touched him.
The three men who were carrying one monkey each were passing along the ever-busy Agbani Road, Enugu when they stopped in front of one of the new generation banks along the road where they entertained people with the monkeys doing acrobatic to the admiration of all.
However, DailyPost learnt that the entertainment turned sour, when a young man who just cashed N200, 000 noticed the sudden disappearance of his money as soon as the playing monkey touched him.
Immediately, the victim raised alarm, which attracted many people to the scene including some mobile policemen guarding the bank.
One of the monkeys was said to have vomited the money when the crowd gathered to lynch the monkey-wielding men and were even ready to set them ablaze but for the intervention of the policemen on duty at the bank.
Infuriated that the monkey vomited the money, the crowd went wild and threatened to kill the men who they accused of using their monkeys to steal money from people’s pockets when they gather to enjoy the fun from the monkeys.
When this reporter arrived at the scene, he saw crowd of people who had gathered to witness the strange incident. Shouting on top of his voice, one of them said: “We’ll kill them. These Fulanis are thieves. They have been using the monkeys to dispossess people of their monies. It is not only today, they have been doing it everywhere”.
A policeman at the scene, Mr. S.K.C Mba told DailyPost that they were waiting for re-enforcement from the Mobile Police 3 to take the three Fulani entertainers to their station so that the crowd would not lynch them.
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