Villagers jubilate as lightning sets ‘mystery’ tree ablaze

Some of the villagers in Umuorie Ajatanaigu Oboro, in Ikwuano LGA of Abia State are jubilating over about 20-feet tall tree destroyed by lightning during a rainfall on Tuesday.

The lightning also shook the foundations of some buildings and cracked a wall of a house in the community.

According to the report, some evil men in the community use the tree to perform one form of ritual or the other, which according to them, hampered the progress of many youths in the village.

The villagers claimed that previous efforts to uproot the tree by some villagers were not successful until the ‘divine intervention’.

They noted that the ‘divine intervention was God’s own way of liberating them from bondage.

However, some villagers dismissed the claims that the destroyed tree was evil, insisting that the lightning was just a natural event that happened during rainfall.

But addressing his subjects on the development, the traditional ruler of the Ajatanaigu autonomous community, King Larry Ogbonnaya Agwu warned evil men and women in his kingdom to confess and repent from their evil ways.

King Larry vowed that his people would go to God in prayers to expose men of darkness, even as he advised evil persons to confess and turn a new leaf or await the wrath of the gods of the land.

The monarch decried the poor conditions of some of his subjects, especially the youths who he said, now survived through commercial motorcycle business and other menial jobs.

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