Uneasy calm now pervades the air as residents of Shagamu Road, Ikorodu,
Lagos, are still in shock over the recent arrest of a 25-year-old man who
specialises in exhuming and selling human parts for rituals.
Frail looking Rahaman Abdul was caught with a fresh human head in a
cemetery along Shagamu Road Ikorodu.
Confirming the shocking news, which threw residents of the area into
confusion, Mr. Ade Bayo, who claims to be the personal assistant to the vice
chairman of Ikorodu Local Government Area squealed that before Abdul was
arrested on that fateful day, the security men at the cemetery had always
complained bitterly on how they usually find the cemetery in bad shape with
body parts littered around the vicinity almost every morning
.
Continuing, Bayo disclosed that the men became more alert in their
quest to unmask those behind the weird happenings around the vicinity without
knowing that one of them was working hand in hand with the corpse rogue.
Unfortunately for Abdul, nemesis caught up with him recently, as he went for
his usual business of butchering body parts of dead bodies.
It was gathered that after he had dug open the grave, he brought out
the corpse divided the head from its body, after which he arranged the grave to
its usual shape, unknown to him security staff were wide awake on duty
monitoring his every evil move.
He was eventually nabbed by one of the security staff, who caught him
holding a human head, a shovel and two knives at about 5.30 am.
After beating him mercilessly, they took him to a nearby police station
and handed him over to the officers on duty.
Meanwhile, before being handed over to the Police, Abdul confessed that
he had been in the business of selling body parts of corpses for over a year
and that the grave he dug before being caught was his 25th attempt.
He told his bewildered captors that he sold each head for N10,000
Naira, the hands and the legs, for N5,000 each. Upon further interrogations,
Abdul confessed to have sold most of the body parts to an Alfa.
Olatunde, a family friend of Abdul disclosed that the culprit stays in
his father’s house at the back of the cemetery, but lost his father last year
after a brief illness. Abdul, he further disclosed attended Ikorodu High School
and was doing menial jobs to sustain himself and younger ones after his father,
also an Alfa, died.
“His father’s death brought
untold hardship to the family. Although he didn’t have a good job, but I still
can’t believe that he will go all the way to be selling body parts of dead
people for money. His neighbours and friends knew him as a very gentle and friendly
person who they felt couldn’t hurt a fly,” stated Olatunde.
“The truth was uncovered when
investigations were conducted and they found out that the head of staff in the
cemetery was working hand in hand with the culprit which was why he was able to
gain easy access to the cemetery at night and also had his own share of money
in the deadly business,” hinted another concerned
worker in the cemetery.
The culprit was later
transferred to the Police Command, Ikeja, for further investigations.
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