An Ikageng woman is devastated that her most trusted friend gave her muffins laced with drugs that almost cost her life last week.
As the Ikageng police investigate a case of attempted murder, the 34-year-old woman says she is still shaken but lucky to be alive.
According to her, her best friend of many years came to pick her up at around 18:00 on Tuesday and the two went to his rented room in Mohadin.
“On arrival at his place, I asked for coffee or tea because I was getting cold. He made me a hot cup of tea and later offered me two freshly-baked brown muffins. I ate them while we were watching TV and he was eating a piece of meat. He later decided to smoke a zol. Looking back, I suspect the second muffin was the one that was laced because it has a green and white substance on it. But I ate it and didn’t give it a second thought.
“After a few minutes, I started feeling drowsy. He told me to relax and lie on the couch for a while because he thought his second zol might have affected me,” she said. “When I woke up after about 45 minutes, I was disorientated and I had hallucinations of lions, my mother and child. Everything around me was surreal. My whole body was numb and I could not move. I was shaking, my mouth was dry and my speech was slurred; it felt like my eyes were popping out of their sockets.”
“I immediately asked him to take me home. I don’t know how I got there; I only found myself under my blankets. That night I did not sleep,” she said.
The following day, the victim arrived at work and, almost immediately, told her supervisor she was not feeling well. She says she has no idea how she got to work.
After going to the clinic, she was transferred to the hospital, where the doctor took a urine sample and gave her medication. The tests later revealed that she had been drugged and the doctor urged her to report the incident to the police. The woman says she could have died from the toxic muffins. She is still not well and disturbed. She keeps having flashbacks of that night and what happened to her. “I have a huge appetite and cannot stop eating,” she says. But, for her, the sense of betrayal is even worse. “I still can’t believe my closest friend would do something like this to me,” she said, bursting into tears. “He was my shoulder to cry on and always offered indispensable advice when I was faced with life’s challenges,” she said.