Bomb attack on Buhari: Suspect's mother says son under demonic spell

The mother of the man dressed like a woman arrested and accused of being the mastermind behind last week’s suicide bomb attack on Gen. Mohammd Buhari, in KAduna State, has said that her son is innocent. The man, Mansir Yusuf,  was arrested shortly after the blast on Wednesday.

The suspect’s mother, Zubeida Yusuf who lives in Mando, Kaduna said that her son was under some demonic attack which made him act strangely and became fond of wearing female dresses. She said her son was not a terrorist.

     
Speaking to Daily Trust, she said: “My son is not a terrorist. What is wrong with him is an evil spiritual attack which is making him to prefer women’s clothing and to act as one who is mentally retarded. Everyone in Mando knows that he only has a spiritual condition that is making him to act strangely.
“He often dresses normal from home, but whenever he gets to an uncompleted building, he would go in and change to the female clothes. He usually carries his bag. He has been taken to the Village Head several times and has been flogged in the hope to cast away the spirits, but the spirits have remained and have continued to torment him,”

She said she and her son were at home when they heard of the blast and while people were running there to see what happened, her son also insisted on going there. “My son said he was going there too and I told him to stay at home. But he sneaked out, and as usual he carried his bag with woman clothes and mobile phones.”

Daily Trust report also says an elderly man in Mando said the suspect was actually under spiritual attack.
“We have even suggested several treatment options to the family which I am sure they have commenced. But his case is purely a spiritual attack,” he said.