The
discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified
simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi
area of Ilorin, Kwara State.
Our correspondent gathered on Thursday
that the discovery was made when some volunteers went round the Laduba
community to appeal for financial contributions from residents for the
repair of a faulty transformer in the area.
It was said that the volunteers
perceived offensive odour at Gani’s residence, which they later reported
to other members of the community.
It was said that curious to know what
smelled, some members of the community rushed to Gani’s residence and
demanded an explanation for the offensive odour oozing from his house.
An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity,
told PUNCH Metro that Gani initially accused the community members of
intruding into his privacy.
He was said to have rushed to the Oloje Police Station to report the community members.
The source added that before Gani could
come back with the police, the community members had entered his house
and discovered a boy with a baby placenta.
The enraged community members were said
to have beaten up the boy, making him to confess that he was asked to
prepare a charm by Gani, who allegedly exhumed the placenta.
While this was going on, our
correspondent gathered that a woman, whose baby naming ceremony was
recently held near Gani’s house, arrived at the scene.
On seeing the placenta, she was said to
have rushed to where the placenta of her new-born baby was buried, only
to discover that it was missing. She was said to have raised the alarm,
alerting the community members to the ugly development.
When he came back with the policemen to arrest the community members, the commotion was still in progress.
The source said, “The residents narrated
their discovery to the policemen. It was at that point that the
policemen decided to search the entire house including an uncompleted
building behind the suspect’s house, after which they discovered some
human parts.”
It was gathered that the enraged mob vandalised Gani’s house and set it on fire.
Our correspondent gathered that the
policemen, 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 incident fuelled
speculations that there were dens of ritual killers and markets where
human parts were traded in Ilorin.
The Police Public Relations Officer,
Kwara State Command, Mr. Ajayi Okasanmi, however, told our correspondent
that there was no den of ritual killers in the state capital.
He said, “That is not true. What was
discovered was not a den of ritual killers, but a suspected criminal who
was used to performing fetish activities.
“The man was looking for a placenta of a
new baby, exhumed the buried placenta and used it for whatever
yet-to-be identified purpose.
“He just came back from jail. He went to
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
him and tried to do things their own way.
In the process of damaging his house by the youth, the police got there and arrested the suspect with the exhibit.
“The police have started investigation to get to the root of the matter.”
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