Community Enraged As Placenta, Body Parts, Boy Found In Illorin Home Of Alfa (PHOTOS)

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There was considerable commotion in Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State on Thursday, July 31, 2014 when the home of a man – Alfa Gani according to reports – was searched and a baby’s placenta along with some other body parts were discovered in his residence. Correspondence from The Punch Newspapers reveal that the said items were found when community volunteers went on a door-to-door appeal to raise funds for the repair of a faulty transformer.
On  getting to Gani’s abode, they were taken aback by the stench emanating from his house, thereby alerting other residents of the vicinity leading to the search of his house.
The Punch reports:

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.

Alfa Gani and the house where the placenta was found (Photo Credit: Success Nwogu/Punch)

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.”