Pandemonium broke out in Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara
State where a baby placenta was found in the residence of a man
identified as Alfa Gani.
The incident is the third within three weeks, that human parts would
be uncovered either with somebody or in a building.
About a month ago, police uncovered different human parts at an
uncompleted building near NASFAT village along the Ilorin
International Airport Road.
Also last week, the police paraded three suspects, Amos Kareem,
Abubakar Ladan and Alhaji Jubril Kabira, for allegedly being in
possession of human parts at Tabira Village near Okuta, Baruteen Local
Government Area of Kwara State.
Our correspondent in Ilorin gathered on Thursday that volunteers from
the Laduba community went round the community to demand for financial
contributions from residents for the repairs of a faulty transformer
in the area.
It was said that the volunteers perceived offensive odour when they
arrived at Gani's residence.
Surprised at the development, the volunteers were said to have alerted
other members of the Laduba community about their observation.
Consequently, it was said that some members of the community rushed to
Gani who was in his residence at that time and demanded explanation on
the offensive odour oozing from his house.
An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity told journalists in Ilorin that
Gani felt embarrassed and accused the community members of intruding
into his privacy.
He was said to have rushed to the nearby Oloje Police Station to
report the community members.
The source added that before Gani could come back with police
officers, the community members had entered into his house and
surprisingly found a boy they alleged was preparing with charm using
the baby placenta.
The enraged community members were said to have started to beat the
boy, prompting him to confess that he was asked to prepare the charm
by Gani, who was said to have exhumed the placenta.
While the pandemonium was ongoing, our correspondent gathered that a
woman identified as the mother of the baby whose naming ceremony had
taken place few days ago arrived at the scene.
On sensing the placenta, she was said to have rushed to where the
placenta of her new born baby was buried, only to find out that it was
missing. She was said to have raised the alarm, alerting the community
members to the development.
Gani was said to have come back with police officers while the
commotion was still going on. The source said Gani had come with the
police officers to arrest some of the community members he accused of
intruding into his privacy.
But the community members were said to have narrated what the found
out to the police officers who were taken aback by the turn of events.
The source said, "It was at that point that the police decided to
search the entire house including an uncompleted building behind the
suspect's house, after which they uncovered more human parts."
The enraged mob reportedly demolished and set on fire Gani's house and property.
Our correspondent gathered that the police officers who were
overwhelmed by the crowd managed to prevent them from lynching the
suspect as they whisked Gani away to their station.
It was learnt that the discovery of the human placenta in Gani's
residence fuelled speculations of another den of ritualist or market
where human parts were traded in Ilorin.
But the Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Command, Mr.
Ajayi Okasanmi, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on
Thursday said it was untrue that another den of ritualists had been
uncovered in the state.
He said, "The incident that happened along Oloje area where they said
a den of ritualists was unovered was not true. It is not a den of
ritualists. There was a habitual criminal who was used to performing
fetish activities there.
"The man according to the information we gathered was jailed the third
time on the same offence of looking for placenta where a new baby was
born, exhuming the buried placenta and using it for whatever intention
of his.
"So he just came back from jail. He went where a placenta was just
buried about three days ago before the incident. He dug up the
placenta and while he was doing that, people saw it and the youths
tried to do the thing there own way before the police could be
informed.
"In the process of damaging his house by the youths, the police got
there, arrested the suspect with the exhibit. We have started
investigating the matter."
-PUNCH
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