Goat taken to the police station as robbery suspect


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The police in Nigeria’s central Kwara state have paraded a goat they claim was one of the two armed robbers who attempted to steal a Mazda car, the local press reported Friday.

The police in Nigeria’s central Kwara state have paraded a goat they claim was one of the two armed robbers who attempted to steal a Mazda car, the local press reported Friday.

Police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told bewildered journalists that the ‘suspect’ would be detained until investigations were concluded.

According to him, vigilantes in a part of the state capital, Ilorin, were chasing two armed robbery suspects who had attempted to demobilise the car with the intention of stealing it on Wednesday, when one of them turned his back on the wall and turned into a goat.

”They quickly grabbed the goat and here it is,” Mohammed said, adding that the other suspect had managed to escape.

Stories of human beings turning to different animals are common in Nigeria, a country of 140 million people where the line between folklore and reality is easily blunted.

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