Police Arrests 3 With Pounded Human Flesh Stashed In A Sack
Operatives of the Lagos State police command of the
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS have arrested three suspects in connection with
pounded human flesh stashed in a sack in Lagos State Western Nigeria.
One of the suspects identified as Ekene was arrested with
the sack and he then implicated two other suspects who were also arrested.
The two other suspects included an Oil and Gas businessman
(name withheld) and a middle aged man believed to be a native doctor.
They are currently detained at the police cell at SARS
office in Ikeja, Lagos where they are being interrogated.
The Lagos State Police public Relation Officer, PPRO, SP
Dolapo Badmos who confirmed the arrest said the suspects are undergoing
interrogation following the discovery.
According to her, the police arrested Ekene with the human
flesh and when he was interrogated he said he was sent by the oil magnate.
Police sources said Ekene was accosted by the police
detective on routine checks along Bucknor area of Ejigbo with one white sack
containing undisclosed content.
Ekene was ordered to open the sack and he confessed that it
contained human flesh.
He was subsequently arrested and taken to the station where
the matter was transferred to SARS.
When he made a confessional statement, he told the police
that he was promised N500,000 by the oil magnate who asked him to abduct a baby
for him.
He said out of the money he was promised, he was paid
N100,000 as advance and he went and abducted a two year old baby for him which
he took to a native doctor as he was directed.
He said he was caught after he was returned with the severed
and pounded body to the man that sent him to get his balance.
When a reporter with PM News went to SARS on Wednesday, the
suspects were still detained in the cell and were under going interrogation.
Dolapo told PM News that the oil magnate has not owned up
that he was the person that sent Ekene for the job, noting that, this has
dragged the case.
No comments