Latifah Bumaye, the lady captured in a viral video whipping a 90-year-old says she was possessed and did not know she was torturing her grandmother.

The 33-year-old told the Salaga Divisional Police Headquarters who arrested her in Kejewu Bator, a fishing community, that she was not aware of what she was doing.

Bumaye in a video said some men had caught her forcefully and smeared a powdery substance on her face prior to the incident.

According to her when she says the video of her whipping the deceased, she asked those around where she got the different apparel from when she was previously in cloth.

Ms. Bumaye was captured in the video whipping the old lady she said was her grandmother, in a broad day amidst chanting and cheering from on lookers after Akua Denteh was disgraced for being a witch by a supposed witchdoctor, Filin.