By Ayodele Popoola

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A group of vigilante yesterday apprehended a middle-aged nursing  mother wandering in the midnight around Ijo-Mimo Secondary school in Ijoka area of Akure.

The Hope Metro gathered that the suspect, who was putting on skirt  and blouse and strapped a toddler at her back, was arrested at the early hours.

She was said to be holding her pant and  a screw driver, while peeping through residents’ windows around 1:00am.

One of the vigilantes, Mr Habib, told The Hope Metro that they noticed the woman moving up and down the street in the middle of the night.

“When we noticed her suspicious movement, we started monitoring her till we saw her beside the window of one resident, pointing the flash light of the keyholder in her hand.

“Initially, we thought she was a ghost. But we summoned courage to move closer to her and immediately she saw us, she ran away. But she was later apprehended,” he said.

He said during interrogation by the vigilantes, the suspect said that she was coming from a church programme.

“After much interrogation,  the woman confessed  that  she ran out of her house at Weli Weli area of Oda road to avoid being raped by her husband after she denied him sexual intecourse.

“Efforts to lead her to her house proved abortive as she was not coherent with the address.

“After the intervention of the elders in the street, the suspect was handed over to the men of the state Amotekun, so as to prevent jungle justice,” he explained.