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, on October 5.
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. More after the jump
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, we gathered was later transferred to the Police Command, Ikeja, for further investigations
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