An elderly woman alongside her accomplices who trade human parts have been arrested by the Ogun State police command.
The suspects were nabbed by men
of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after one of the officers posed as a buyer.
A human head was going to be
sold to the undercover officer for N120,000 before the police swooped in on the
sellers.
The recovered parts include
kidneys, heads, intestines, livers and others
The police said they began
investigating due to the recent increase in the recorded incidents of people
disappearing without a trace.
The police added that most of
the parts recovered from the gang are fresh
The gang members arrested
include: a grave digger, buyer, and a seller.
The human parts buyer said he
has been in the business for the past 4 years and has bought human heads from
the elderly woman for a little as N10,000 for spiritual purposes.
The grave digger explained that
they get some of the heads by exhuming corpses from grave sites and cutting the
head.
Another, a grave digger too,
says all he does is dig grave for the gang for N3,000. He added that he is
aware they sell human parts from the cemetery.
The elderly woman in the gang,
who specializes in selling the parts, reportedly chopped off a piece of the
human flesh and ate it in a bid to convince investigators that what they saw
was regular beef, not human flesh.
She said while being paraded:
“I’ve been selling for 2 years and I sold only 10 human heads. We shred the
head into tiny pieces for herbalists.”
Police said investigation
continues.
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