One ‘lunatic’ held with human parts
An underground cell suspected to be ritualists’ base has been uncovered at Iyana Egbado village in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Consequently, a middle aged man who identified himself simply as Gbenga and was in possession of severed human parts was also arrested by the police in connection with the suspected ritualists base.
National Mirror gathered from the scene of the incident, which is located under the bridge just about 250 meters away from the main gate of a popular cement company along the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, that the suspect had attempted to kill a woman before she was rescued by a passer-by.
The passer-by, who rescued the woman, became suspicious of the cellophane bag the suspect was holding and therefore forcefully tore it only to discover that the contents were severed human parts already sliced into pieces.
The passer-by immediately raised the alarm which attracted crowd from the nearby cement factory as well as Egbado village.
Having discovered that the mob was going to kill him, the suspect, who was known to be lunatic and had lived in the area for the past nine months, however, pleaded with the crowd not to kill him and promised to confess.
An eyewitness, who identified himself as Samuel Oladele, told National Mirror that the suspect, Gbenga thereafter, brought out a mobile phone to make calls to some people.
Oladele added that the suspect told the mob that he belonged to a five-man syndicate among them a woman who operated in the Ewekoro area.
Police team from the Itori arrived at the scene of the incident and thereafter whisked the suspect away.
The sight of the ritualists’ base was, however, gory when National Mirror visited the site.
Our correspondent observed that items, including human parts sliced into pieces, plastic containers filled with human blood, ladies pants, braziers, ladies and men shoes, blood stained dresses were discovered from the site.
Other items included knives, many non-functioning electronics parts, soft drinks suggesting that the suspect and his accomplices were indeed living under the bridge.
National Mirror also gathered that the suspect, who claimed to have hailed from Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti- State, had been whisked away by the police to Ifo Divisional Headquarters to prevent him from being lynched by the mob.
Attempts to speak with the suspect by journalists were prevented by the police.
The police, however, referred journalists to the command’s headquarters at Eleweran in Abeokuta, the state capital.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect was already in th custody of the Department of State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).
Adejobi stressed that the police from Itori and Ifo rescued the suspect when he was about to be lynched by mob.
The police spokesman said the command would conduct a thorough investigation into the matter to ascertain whether items recovered from the suspect were actually human or animal intestine.
While urging members of the public not to jump into hasty conclusion, Adejobi said that there are many areas which the police would look into before arriving at final conclusion.
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