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.
It was 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, said 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, it was 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.
It was 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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The P.R.O. should be very careful with what his trying to defend.
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