Police nab cleric preparing concoction with placenta

ILORIN— An Islamic cleric, simply identified as Alfa Gani was, Wednesday night, caught in Laduba, Ogidi area of Ilorin West Local Government Area, making concoction with the placenta of a new baby girl he performed her naming ceremony the previous day.

After the bizarre incident, sources said human parts were also found in the cleric’s residence.

Consequently, angry members of Laduba community pulled down his two buildings.

It took the intervention of policemen who quickly whisked the cleric and his family away to save them from being lynched.

The latest discovery brings to three, the number of suspected human parts markets discovered in Ilorin and Okuta towns in Baruteen Local Government Area in recent times.

The men of Kwara State Police Command had, penultimate week, paraded three human parts dealers, while the police were still investigating a four-storey building along Airport Road in Ilorin where human parts were also found.

How the suspect was nabbed

The latest discovery was made when the community leaders in Laduba decided to raise some volunteers to go round the houses in the area to ask for contribution for the repair of their faulty transformer.

On getting to the suspect’s house, Vanguard gathered, the volunteers were greeted with offensive odour from the house. Worried, they alerted other members of the community about the odour.

The volunteers, subsequently, mobilised more residents to the house of the islamic cleric, asking him to explain the cause of the odour.

But Alfa Gani was said to have feigned embarrassment, accusing the concerned community members of trying to intrude into his privacy.

Vanguard gathered that the development degenerated to argument between him and members of the community who insisted that they must get to the root of the matter.

The suspect, the source further said, angrily left them in his house to lodge a report at the nearby Oloje police station.

But before his arrival, the residents were said to have forced their way into the house where they met a boy preparing some charms with the baby’s placenta which was the cause of the stench in the first place.

Consequently, the angry mob that had gathered descended on the boy, making him confess that the cleric asked him to exhume the baby’s placenta to prepare the charms.

In the middle of the confusion, the mother of the baby was said to have rushed to the point where the baby’s placenta was buried only to discover that it was no longer there.

While the commotion lasted, Alfa Gani, according to the source, arrived the scene with some policemen with the intention to arrest those trying to “intrude into his privacy” but the community rose against them and presented the true version of the story to the Police.

“It was at that point that the police decided to search the entire house following which they discovered more human parts,” a source said.

The police, it was further gathered, extended their search to an uncompleted building behind the suspect’s house only to discover that the place was being used as a slaughter slab for human parts.

Mob set his buildings ablaze

The mob, therefore, demolished the structures and set the suspect’s property on fire.

The presence of the policemen, it was gathered, prevented the mob from carrying out jungle justice on the suspect who was whisked away by the police.

Contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident but said it was not a case of human parts selling.

He said a man was caught with baby placenta and the community descended on him.

Okasanmi said the man was just released from prison where he served a term for similar reason, saying: “We are still investigating the case.”

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Man kills lover in Lagos, flees to Ghana

LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, disclosed that it was close to apprehending the 33-year-old man who allegedly strangled his lover, a 39-year-old mother of four in her apartment at Green Estate, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, two weeks ago.

This is just as it has identified the fleeing suspect as one Kelechi Williams.

All was reportedly going on well for Williams and his international business woman lover and Chief Executive Officer /Managing Director of Edmark International, identified as Njideka Lizzy Nzewe, until July 19, 2014.

According to reports, the late Njideka who was to travel to the United States of America on July 24, 2014, with her kids, had gone to the bank in the company of Williams to withdraw N4 million.

However, at about 2.30 am, Williams allegedly tied her hands, strangled her and thereafter, made away with over N8 million, her phones and her Range Rover SUV.

Police sources told Vanguard that the twine used to strangle the mother of four was found on her neck when they arrived.

Police sources further hinted that homicide detectives at Area ‘E’ Command, Festac Town, were closing in on the suspect.

“During investigation, we discovered that Williams have several other names. He fled to Ghana immediately he committed the act.

“Detectives embarked on forensic auditing investigation of his social media networks and with the assistance of INTERPOL, they have been able to locate his hideout,” Police sources said.

Marriage proposal

Preliminary investigations. as gathered, showed that Williams was one of the deceased’s staff. They were said to have been going out for some years, in the process of which he proposed marriage to Lizzy.

But she reportedly turned down the proposal on the ground of age difference.

Police sources explained: “During investigation, it was discovered that when the deceased business expanded, she employed Williams to manage the Ghana and West Coast branch of her company. Each time he comes to Nigeria, he exports goods to Ghana and circulate same to West Coast. During such visits, he stayed with Lizzy at her private apartment. That could be the reason why it was easy for him to snuff life out of her.

“On the day he killed Lizzy, he drove to the gate and told the unsuspecting guard that he was going to cash money from the ATM.”

Police sources further disclosed that during investigation, the fleeing suspect was discovered to be on the wanted list of policemen in Angola and South Africa, over undisclosed offences.

Contacted, spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, explained that the deceased was a single mother.

She said: “He strangled the woman with a rope inside her apartment. He locked up the place, packed her money, phones, international passports and about N8 million, which she intended to leave for him to run the business while she would be away.

“Lizzy’s brother, who was supposed to meet her so that they could move her things to her new home in Satelite Town, came over. But after several calls without response, the man became worried when he noticed that everywhere was locked.

“He, therefore, alerted the police at Festac Police Station, which prompted policemen to force the door to the woman’s apartment open and met her lifeless body on the floor. Investigation is on-going . We will get him.”

 

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Man kills friend, steals his motorcycle, say Police

 

The police in Gombe State have arrested a 26-year-old applicant, Job Danladi, for allegedly killing his friend and stealing his motorcycle.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Gombe State Police Command, Fwaje Atajiri, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Gombe.

Mr. Atajiri said that the suspect had requested the deceased, one Peter Mela, to convey him in his motorcycle from Billiri town to Kufai Village for a N150 fare.

According to the police, the suspect later used a sharp machete to kill his victim and took the motorcycle to Ayaba village.

The PPRO said the suspect was arrested following police investigations, adding that the suspect had confessed to committing the crime.

He said that the suspect would be charged to court after investigations were completed.

Mr. Atajiri also said that another suspect, Nura Sambo, conspired with one Ibrahim Kumo alias Runi, both of Billiri town, to attempt snatching a vehicle.

He said that the owner of the vehicle, Pada Stephen, raised an alarm which attracted the attention of police officers on patrol who arrested Mr. Sambo.

He said that Mr. Kumo escaped, adding that Mr. Sambo was assisting the police in their investigations.

The spokesperson, who stated that a sub-machine gun was recovered from the suspect, said the suspect would soon be charged to court.

He said six other miscreants were arrested for attempting to snatch mobile phones, jewelry and other valuables from residents of Low Cost Housing Estate, Gombe, on Saturday.

Mr. Atajiri said that the state experienced a hitch-free Easter celebration, and attributed the success to operational plan by the state Commissioner of Police, Kudu Nma.

(NAN)

Man kills friend, steals his motorcycle, say Police