How we sell human parts –Suspects

Started by SunNews, May 22, 2013, 12:31 PM

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By CHRISTOPHER OJI and MATTHEW DIKE

Lagos State Police Command has arrested four suspected members of a syndicate that specialised in selling human parts. The state Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), led by its Commander, Abba Kyari arrested Ajibade Rafiu, Fatai Akiwowo, Kazeem Sanni and Agboola Kolawole.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide paraded the suspects before journalists at the police headquarters, Ikeja, yesterday.

The suspects painted a gruesome picture of how they exhumed dead bodies, bought and sold human parts and even attempted to sell life human beings for N40, 000.

According to them, life human being was sold for N40, 000, private parts N10, 000, skull N8, 000 and hand N8, 000.

Agboola Kola, 40, said his friend lured him with N32, 000 and they both exhumed the dead bodies of his two brothers and two sisters.

Kola, who hailed from Ogun State, said he allowed his friend to exhume the bodies, which he usually used for rituals, as he needed money to pay for his children's school fees.

According to Kola, he and his friend exhumed two bodies and removed the heads last August, saying they did the same in May 9, 2013 before the police arrested them.

Kola said there were over 20 burial graves in his family compound and that he and his friend exhumed the bodies in the night.

"I needed money to pay my children's school fees. When I explained to my friend he said I should not worry and he promised to give me the money on the condition that both of us would exhume the bodies of my siblings who were buried in my family compound.

"Last August we exhumed two of the bodies and he removed the heads from the bodies. He paid me N16, 000 for both heads. This year again, he came and told me that he needed another two heads and I agreed, as I needed money to solve the problem at home. So we exhumed the body in May 9. He paid me another N16, 000. Please people should forgive me. It was because of poverty that was why I got myself involved in such shameful act. There are so many people buried in our compound. We have over 20 burial graves in our compound. I will not do such thing again, please," Kola said.

Kaseem Sanni also from Ogun State  admitted to be engaged in the business of sale of human parts.

He said his friend, Fatai Akinwowo, struck a deal with him to provide life human being for N40, 000.

Sanni, 23, who said he had not taken anybody to him, admitted he exhumed and sold three human heads.

Fatai Akinwowo from Osun State said it was one Alfa Jamiu who told him to buy human heads. Akinwowo said he engaged in the business out of poverty. According to him his friend Jamiu gave him N8, 000 to buy human head, promising to pay him N1, 000 after he might have delivered the human part. He said Jamiu paid N40, 000 for life human being.

Akinwowo said: "I know I have done something terrible. It was because of poverty. Hunger made me to do such thing at a fee. Alfa Jamiu told me to bring human head at the rate of N8, 000. I had to look for it. He paid me N1, 000 for my efforts. "He buys private part for N10, 000, head for N8, 000 and hand for N6, 000. I only bought human parts for him five times.  Jamiu lives at the back of Elf in Idiroko area of Ogun State. Jamiu died on Thursday," he said.

Ajibade Rafiu, 30, said he is a herbalist and resides at Owode area in Ogun State. He said he never bargained with the other human parts dealers, saying they brought the parts on their own volition and he paid them.

On how they were apprehended, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Braide said policemen attached to SARS arrested Jamiu in Owode, Ogun State with human hand which he wanted to sell for N21, 000. Jamiu was said to have confessed that Sanni sold it to him for N6, 000. Sanni said he sold two human heads to Jamiu and four human heads for another supplier called Kola. Kola was arrested in Owode with four heads, which he said were that of his siblings – two males and two females.

Braide said the police were still investigating to know whether the human parts were truly exhumed or were victims of ritual killings.

Via: Sun News Online