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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:23pm On Jul 12, 2014
Evergreen123:

and when was the last time u heard about it?
Meanwhile, the whole of SW keeps booming with s.ex scandals,cannibalism and human rituals
I know this is the kind of threads that makes you wet. The good, the bad and the ugly are present in every regions. Again Erm...Will that stop you guys from running down west to make ends meet?
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:25pm On Jul 12, 2014
ichidodo: And only a pig waits to be fed by 20 naira dash from an igbo pocket....Hence the addedndum "as greedy as a Southwest pig"
Which southerner have you feed with 20#? You think in twenties, your life must be very miserable.
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Faun(m): 12:30pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
I know this is the kind of threads that makes you wet. The good, the bad and the ugly is present in every regions. Again Erm...Will that stop you guys from running down west to make ends meet?

If those guys were all "running down west", then South-East Nigeria wouldn't still be the most densely populated region in the country, so look for another fable to read yourself to sleep.
The fact remains, you Yoruba people are grossly dumb and ignorant, you see people casually working in Lagos as people 'hustling to survive'. Well, better open your eyes and visit other regions in this country to see how numerous your brothers are too, especially in Abuja where your Yoruba folks work as taxi drivers.

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by KOBOJO: 12:31pm On Jul 12, 2014
OkikiOluwa1:
Iwo ni ifa mu!
Last Bullet

you get epilepsy?





No...I no get.

And why do you ask..??

Seems you have positive history of epilepsy in your family.

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by ichidodo: 12:32pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
Which southerner have you feed with 20#? You think in twenties, your life must be very miserable.
You'd be amazed what my Yoruba vulcanizer requires for a stick of cigarrette and milkose as a morning kickstarter......Pig..
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:32pm On Jul 12, 2014
Faun:

Fables from a desperado.
Yorubas are the only people who live in the delusion that you can cut off a human's head and it begins to vomit bank notes complete with Sanusi's signature.
That's as far as your cheap education goes, and Soka Horror House is staring you right in the face if you need reference. wink
As General Gbawe as said earlier, you Igbos can also pay for the air you breathe for all we care. let's know how rich you are. Even in saner climes, there are free education. Yet most of ur leaders even enjoyed the free education in the west.
Yes we know about soka and we condemned the act. There is no hiding place for evil in the west unlike tge least. We also know about Okija too.
Most people don't travel to the least because of the rampant ritual killings, kidnappings, arm robbery, baby factories etc. So gay get a life and stop hating
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:35pm On Jul 12, 2014
Lagos ,Abeokuta and Ibadan are notorious spots for human parts
When I see all those threads about missing people,my mind immediately goes to the fact that they could have been killed and sold for parts.
All herbalists and babalawos ought to be be shut down and that profession made illegal
Whatever tells people that human parts can cure ailments or change fortune

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:36pm On Jul 12, 2014
Seriously, Some yoruba people are greedy, they are doing this business alone without involving hausa, igbo and other tribes. grin grin grin grin grin. Dis human parts you feeple re sharing in south west, God dey o

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by OkikiOluwa1(m): 12:38pm On Jul 12, 2014
KOBOJO:





No...I no get.

And why do you ask..??

Seems you have positive history of epilepsy in your family.
Your typing & post are epileptic.
So, you must be epileptic!
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:38pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
As General Gbawe as said earlier, you Igbos can also pay for the air you breathe for all we care. let's know how rich you are. Even in saner climes, there are free education. Yet most of ur leaders even enjoyed the free education in the west.
Yes we know about soka and we condemned the act. There is no hiding place for evil in the west unlike tge least. We also know about Okija too.
Most people don't travel to the least because of the rampant ritual killings, kidnappings, arm robbery, baby factories etc. So gay get a life and stop hating

grin grin grin grin You don cross Onitsha Bridge before?
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:39pm On Jul 12, 2014
banega: All these body-parts you guys are sharing, there is God oh sad

ha ha...dont do that!
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by iamord(m): 12:44pm On Jul 12, 2014
BlackPeni5: Yoruba people are mostly traditionalists therefore human part rituals is a part of their daily life. Even Christians and Muslims over there combine Juju.

Ibo people are criminals. They are ready to do absolutely anything to make money...

Hausa people are Lazy...they are prepared to die to ensure that they continue to feed off the sweat of others.

South South people are stupid

Nigeria is useless indeed
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by streetzdreamz(m): 12:45pm On Jul 12, 2014
all4naija:
Both Igbo and other tribes are guilty of human parts fetishism! Nigeria is a society full of evil human beings in desperation for riches, power and success. I guess those are the main reasons for the dealings on human parts in that country.

This is a sad news though!
d only sensible post on dis thread,I wonder wen d e-wars will stop n y'al wil stop shifting blames n mk d country a better place to live,dia s no tribe in d whole of Nigeria dat aint involved in issues like dis either directly or indirectly..
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:46pm On Jul 12, 2014
ichidodo: You'd be amazed what my Yoruba vulcanizer requires for a stick of cigarrette and milkose as a morning kickstarter......Pig..

Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Faun(m): 12:47pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
As General Gbawe as said earlier, you Igbos can also pay for the air you breathe for all we care. let's know how rich you are. Even in saner climes, there are free education. Yet most of ur leaders even enjoyed the free education in the west.
Yes we know about soka and we condemned the act. There is no hiding place for evil in the west unlike tge least. We also know about Okija too.
Most people don't travel to the least because of the rampant ritual killings, kidnappings, arm robbery, baby factories etc. So gay get a life and stop hating

Hackneyed retorts from an empty-headed illiterate.
The world over, there are numerous social programmes which include free education; but not the poor, substandard education which ends up breeding thousands of quacks, as can be witnessed in your South West.
And for the record, you delusional dimwit, none of my leaders or friends benefitted from your free education.
Down here in Igboland, we INVEST in our children's education by saving enough money to send them to the best schools around, not by packing and dumping that responsibility in the hands of the government, all because of your love for freebies, as well as your irresponsible outlook towards life.

And Mmuo Okija is a deity, not a ritualist camp like Soka, you ignoramus.

And finally, your tale about nobody traveling to the South-East would have been at lot more believable if only the region wasn't the most densely populated in the country, and that Yoruba people weren't packed up in Enugu.

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by fyneboi79(m): 12:49pm On Jul 12, 2014
Where are those id0ts wey talk say na Ibo dey spoil dis country make I ask dem whether this two name na Ibo man own "Alhaji Surajudeen Faronbi and Taofeek Abidakun ".
The tribe wey dis people come from, Satan punish dem
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:49pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
I know this is the kind of threads that makes you wet. The good, the bad and the ugly are present in every regions. Again Erm...Will that stop you guys from running down west to make ends meet?

is there any part of the world u don't find igbos?
Which one is running down to west? Are there more igbos in the west than east?

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:55pm On Jul 12, 2014
Faun:

Hackneyed retorts from an empty-headed illiterate.
The world over, there are numerous social programmes which include free education; but not the poor, substandard education which ends up breeding thousands of quacks, as can be witnessed in your South West.
And for the record, you delusional dimwit, none of my leaders or friends benefitted from your free education.
Down here in Igboland, we INVEST in our children's education by saving enough money to send them to the best schools around, not by packing and dumping that responsibility in the hands of the government, all because of your love for freebies, as well as your irresponsible outlook towards life.

And Mmuo Okija is a deity, not a ritualist camp like Soka, you ignoramus.

And finally, your tale about nobody traveling to the South-East would have been at lot more believable if only the region wasn't the most densely populated in the country, and that Yoruba people weren't packed up in Enugu.
Dear God, give us 2pac back and we'll give u this fa.g.got
Here are pictures of your temple in the South East

Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by ichidodo: 12:55pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah: I am a dirty South West pig....
Good for you....
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by shaboti: 12:56pm On Jul 12, 2014
omo these people don vex o
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 12:57pm On Jul 12, 2014
yorubas and their insatiable lust for human blood. Ritualists Worldwide observe their pilgrimage in the SW. *cannibals*

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by streetzdreamz(m): 12:58pm On Jul 12, 2014
Babymama1: Lagos ,Abeokuta and Ibadan are notorious spots for human parts
When I see all those threads about missing people,my mind immediately goes to the fact that they could have been killed and sold for parts.
All herbalists and babalawos ought to be be shut down and that profession made illegal
Whatever tells people that human parts can cure ailments or change fortune
I bliv it does,atleast to some extent cuz if t does'nt d trend won't b dis rampant n lucrative as dey cal it,it all boils down to d insane human demanding for such services cuz if dia s no demand dia certainly wudnt b a supply,as u'v said"if only if d profession can b scrapped"t breeds more havoc dan good
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by myspnigeria: 1:03pm On Jul 12, 2014
evil men al over the place
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 1:04pm On Jul 12, 2014
ichidodo: Good for you....
Move Bia.tch, get off the way. If I had a brain like yours, I'd sue my parents

Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by angela98(f): 1:06pm On Jul 12, 2014
When will these evil people stop selling human beings like goats? Na wah!

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 1:06pm On Jul 12, 2014
2,500 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued From ‘Baby Factories’ In South-East In 2012 – Report
Posted by: daniel on January 4, 2014
In what could only be a testament to the thriving industry now known as ‘baby factories’, an investigation by Campaign for Democracy (CD) has revealed that no fewer than 2500 teenagers have been rescued from such ‘factories’ across the South-East states in the last one year. The investigations also revealed that the victims, who were mostly pregnant minors, were freed by the Police and other security agencies from the various illegal orphanages where they were detained.
According to a statement released by the group and signed by its Chairman in the South-East, Uzor A. Uzor, most of the teenage pregnant mothers lured into the trade with monetary offers by the ‘baby factory’ operators, while others were forced into the infamous trade by poverty and illiteracy.
The CD noted that within the period under review, Abia and Imo states topped the list with highest number of teenagers involved in the infamous trade.
The group attributed the increase in ‘baby factory’ operations in the zone to high rate of youth unemployment and poverty occasioned by the failure of successive governments in the region to put adequate measures in place to empower the youths by creating meaningful employment.
“The rising cases of baby factory in the South-East is a result of the failure of the state governments in the South-East to create jobs for the teeming youths, especially the helpless girls who are easily lured into the trade.
“There is no other part of the country that has the problem of baby factory; it is a peculiar case with the South-East.
“In Abia and Imo states, about 1,800 pregnant teenagers and babies were rescued from ‘baby factories’ in the last 12 months and the number is still rising”, the CD stated.
It further tasked the South-East governors on the need to urgently fight the menace to secure the future of the teeming youths, who are currently threatened.
“The governors in the zone should collaborate with security operatives to fish out those behind the trade and rehabilitate the rescued teenagers,” CD charged.
It would be recalled that the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Musa Katsina, had during a media chat in Owerri, the state capital, lamented the rising cases of discovery of ‘baby factory’ in the South-East but vowed that the police would not relent in its effort to stem the ugly tide.
According to him, “the rate is alarming in all the states. It had been there until we began the clampdown on the operators and we will continue until we rid the society of this set of people and other criminal elements”.

Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 1:08pm On Jul 12, 2014
dabriggs:

ha ha...dont do that!
Loolx, wetin ah do?
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Faun(m): 1:09pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
Dear God, give us 2pac back and we'll give u this fa.g.got
Here are pictures of your temple in the South East

The Soka Superstars

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Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 1:09pm On Jul 12, 2014
From the West to the East and North to the South , the story is same.
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by ichidodo: 1:10pm On Jul 12, 2014
harde2lah:
I am a natural fuccking iidiot...What a Southwest of sperm.
[color] Let me also say you're a stupide fool.. [/color]
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by alnaijiri(m): 1:12pm On Jul 12, 2014
I blame this on paganism. Muslims must take care to avoid any pagan rituals in their daily lives.
Re: Police Bust Human Parts Syndicate In Lagos by Nobody: 1:14pm On Jul 12, 2014
Murder for money…Victims of ritual murders tell their stories
Posted by: foluso on February 17, 2013
Ritual killing in South East for various reasons
In ancient times, ritual killing was alien to Igbo land except those carried out to appease the gods. But with the passage of time and development of new habits, especially the get-rich-quick attitude and consequent obscene show of affluence, ritual murder became widespread in the South East zone of the country as checks by Sunday Sun in the five states of the zone revealed.
Evil Forest in Enugu
Petrus Obi in Enugu reports that an evil forest where suspected ritualists dismember their victims was discovered in Enugu State recently. Fresh and decomposing human parts were found in the forest located at Inyi, Enugu Ezike in the Igboeze North Local Government of the State.
It was suspected that victims were taken to the forest and butchered by their assailants who in turn removed vital parts needed for money-spinning rituals. In an attempt to end the evil practice in the area, the people had petitioned the State government, urging it to acquire the expanse of land belonging to the village shrine, Ogene Mmili.
The natives that were worried over increasing cases of missing persons in the community, demanded that those involved in the killings should be exposed and punished.
Among the casualties was Miss Eucharia Abugu Eya who was abducted in the street and later found dead in the evil forest with some parts of her body missing.
It was gathered that Miss Gloria Ugwueke (35), and Caroline Odo Eje, a widow with seven children were earlier victims of ritual killing in the community.
However, it was the killing of Miss Edith Ijeoma Onu Ossai that sparked off protests in the community. More than 1,000 women took to the streets, demanding an end to the killings. Edith’s body had been found without her heart, kidney and private part.
Reacting to the spate of ritual killings in parts of Igbo land, the traditional ruler of Enugu Urban (Ogui Nike), Igwe (Dr.) Tony Ojukwu, noted that such killings were alien to Igbo culture.
He traced the ugly trend to travellers from Igbo land that visited other cultures and in the process, copied the practice of using human heads to bury important personalities.
“It was in the course of travelling that our people encountered these killings and tried to import it into Igbo culture; not that our culture encourages kidnapping and killing people. It’s the people who travelled out and visited some cultures where if a prominent person died, they would keep the death secret until some heads were collected to bury the person in strange belief that it add to the deceased’s prestige.
“Such cultures believe that the coffin of a great man must lie on top of some human heads. His kinsmen would travel out or move into the farms to behead people for burial of their dead. It was imported into Igbo land.
“Even in this place, there were times if important persons died non-adults were kept at home; they don’t go to fetch firewood or water to avoid being beheaded. But civilization and Christianity has restructured everything.”
Still in Anambra state, Dom Ekpunobi and Emma Uzor report that ritual killings seldom occur in the commercial city of Onitsha, because the area is dominated by businessmen, who believe in utilizing their time and talent to create wealth instead of engaging in diabolical means of making it in life. The fact, however, remains that those who found it difficult to remain afloat through hard work resorted to violent crimes such as armed robbery and kidnapping. Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka (Ogisi Igbo) who spoke to Sunday Sun on the implication of ritual killing, said it was an abomination for anybody to kill a fellow human being for ritual.
Chief Ezeonwuka posited that whenever such happens, the land is desecrated and there must be sacrifice to appease the gods.
He said that on no account should the blood of a human being be shed, pointing out that the gods decry such acts.
Ebonyi: Baby snatched from mother’s chest
From Ebonyi state, Goddy Osuji reports that cases of ritual murder abound in the state and that several cases were yet to be resolved by the police.
One of the most agonizing was the abduction of seven under-aged children at Ishiagu community. Among them, was a nine-month old baby snatched from its mother, Mrs Alice Nkwo while she was chest-feeding the baby. The hoodlums later moved into the family’s bedroom and abducted two other children aged between two and three years.
Bemoaning her losses, Mrs Nkwo said that her mind had not been at rest because she could still hear the cries of her abducted children. This and similar incidents prompted a peaceful protest by women in Ishiagu community against rampant abduction of children for rituals.
Also, a 32-year-old nursing mother, Mrs. Nnenna Emmanuel watched helplessly as some hoodlums forcibly took away her two children, eight months old Chidubem Emmanuel and three-year-old Chiemelem Emmanuel on December 24, 2012.
“It was on the Christmas Eve at about 4am, we were sleeping when we heard the sound of a vehicle parking in front of our house. When the car parked, I woke up and my little baby started crying. I carried him to chest feed him while we waited to know the people parking their car in front of our house at that time of the night. “Suddenly, they kicked our door open and one of them entered the house, gave me a slap and snatched my chest-feeding child from me. The other person broke into the other room where my three-year-old baby was sleeping with his grandmother and took him, and they rushed into their car and zoomed off.
“We raised the alarm but before our neighbours could come, they had driven off. I noticed that they were four in number; two persons were in front while another man and a woman sat at the back off the car but because it was dark, I couldn’t see their faces.
Each night I close my eyes, I hear the cries of my two little children calling me. I pray they are still alive”, the distraught mother lamented.
Also, at Eketube in Enyida Development Centre, the headless body of an apprentice nurse, Miss Kelechi Nwawaka (20), was found behind the Comprehensive Secondary School in the community. She was allegedly murdered at Ndiechi Eketube in Abakaliki local government area of the state. Her head, private part and fingers were cut off apparently for ritual purpose.
It was gathered that Kelechi’s journey to her brutal end started on the New Year day when one of her relations, Mrs Margaret Augustine Nweke, invited her for a dinner in her house which she honoured, and later at night, she left for her mother’s house, escorted by the son of her hostess,
A search party comprising men of the Civil Defence Corps and some villagers later found the mutilated body.
Imo: Victims killed, dumped in Nworie River
Our correspondent, George Onyejiuwa in Owerri, reports that in Imo State, ritual killings have been relatively low compared to other neighbouring states. Improved security and clampdown on ritualists’ den in the state by the present administration may have accounted for this.
Be that as it may, there were pockets of cases of missing persons, who were either found days later, with their vital organs missing or simply disappeared without trace.
Recently, there were reported cases of suspected ritual killings especially in Owerri, the state capital. Among them was the discovery of the lifeless bodies of two female students of the Imo State University, with some of their organs missing.
The bodies fished out from the Nworie River on old Nekede road in Owerri metropolis, were suspected to have been dumped in the river by suspected ritualists. Also, there was a reported case of the body of an unidentified young man with missing organs found floating in the Okitankwo stream in Umuchu Uratta village in Owerri North council area.
Mr Ikedia Zereuwa, told Sunday Sun that he suspected that his younger brother, Iwuchukwu Zereuwa, was killed by ritualists who abducted him while on his way to their village, Umuakpu community in Ngor Okpala, from a business trip in Elele community.
“My younger brother was abducted while on his way back from Elele where he had gone to transact business, but he was lucky to have survived because the Okada operator that he paid to transport him to our village that night was an agent of ritualists. So, instead of taking the major road, he took him through a track road which he told my brother was shorter. They had just moved for a short distance when three men came out from the bush and blocked their way.
“It was from there that he was dragged to a small hut in the bush where there were other people. Luckily, the native doctor pointedly told those that brought him that he was not the type of person they needed and ordered them to set him free. But instead, the abductors tied him to a tree and left him there. My brother was later rescued by a man who had gone to the bush to set traps”, he stated.
Virgins in high demand for rituals
Checks by Sunday Sun revealed that the most vulnerable groups in the state are school children, young ladies, pregnant women and elderly people.
It was also gathered that most of the ritual killers target children because it is believed that most children at that relatively tender age are virgins and more potent. Female virgins were also said to be in high demand for rituals.
However, Amadi Okereafor, the chief priest of Umuohoko community in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State told Sunday Sun that it is a sacrilege in Igbo land for anyone to terminate the life of another. He said that in the days of their ancestors if a man killed his brother or neighbour, he would automatically be banished from the community.
He further pointed out that the rising incidence of ritual killings were due to the inordinate ambition of the new generation of Ndigbo who think that money is the ultimate.
“Life was sacred in Igbo land in the time of our ancestors because if a man killed his kinsman he would be banished because he or she had committed a sin against the land. But today life is nothing as people kill in the name of anything,” he said.
The chief priest also blamed the upsurge in ritual killings on politicians who are ready to do anything to win political office.
Abia: Baby snatched from labour room
Our correspondents, Chuks Onuoha in Umuahia and Okey Sampson in Aba, Abia State report that ritual killing seemed to have become a regular occurrence in some parts of the state to the extent that many have become apprehensive when travelling in the state.
Not long ago, a newly born baby was snatched from the labour room while the mother was battling for survival from post-delivery bleeding.
The baby was yet to be found as at the time of this report and the suspicion is that it must have been used for ritual.
Few days after the tot was snatched, the body of a woman without br**sts, eyes, and other vital organs was found in a bush path. Before that incident, a young man, residing in a village in Ohuhu sliced the throat of another young man who passed a night with him in his apartment and fled the village.
He was later caught in far away Port Harcourt, River State, where he’d ran to for safety. He was quoted as saying that a highly placed son of a notable personality within the community had commissioned him to kill the young man and bring some parts of his body.
Two years ago, a woman that went to her farm in Ohuhu near Umuahia in the evening was killed and some of her vital organs removed by unknown persons.
A community leader and one of the oldest men in Ohuhu, Chief Onukwube Anyanwu, told Sunday Sun that rituals are nothing, but sacrifices made to enhance one’s chances and opportunities.
“Different types of people in the society perform rituals and sacrifices to make strong charms for protection, fame, success, riches, etc. The highest of all the charms that can be made by man are those that demand human sacrifice. They are the major causes of ritual killings. There are many people within the society who are in a hurry to attain a particular height. They are not ready to wait for God’s time and for that reason, they want to push the hand of the clock to move faster. When the native doctors or herbalists see such people, they give them very hard conditions like the provision of human parts in order to get what they want.
“Human blood, whether we like it or not, is the costliest of all things mankind can possess. That is the reason many people seem to be succeeding in ritual practices. But whether they like it or not, those who embark on such things have ways of paying back sooner or later.
“In Igbo land, rituals are believed to enhance the chances of those who perform it to have one gain or the other. People consult an oracle and the oracle demands that the only thing that will make them succeed is to bring specific human parts.
“Time was when albinos and hunch-backs were at risk, because it was believed that the oracles demanded them to grant the desire of those who consult them”, Anyanwu said.
Prior to the deployment of soldiers to Abia State in 2010 by the federal government, kidnapping was the order of the day in the state, particularly its commercial hub, Aba.
Now that it appears that soldiers have put kidnappers out of ‘business’, these hoodlums have gone into another business – ritual murder. The most vulnerable are children.
On June 11, 2012, two pupils of Oasis Christian Academy, Amaoji in Obingwa Local Government, Prince (6) and Kenneth (4), the only male children of Mr. Chimezie Nwaoha, a mortician with a private hospital in Aba set out for school.
Ironically, the parents of the two kids who had prepared them for school before going for their various businesses thought they were at school while their teachers who did not see them in school presumed that their parents didn’t allow them come to school. Unknown to both sides, the children could not make it to their school that morning because they were abducted and killed for ritual purposes inside a palm plantation that overlooked their school.
Their assailants removed their vital organs including eyes, tongues, br**sts and man-hood before burying the boys in a shallow grave inside the bush. The police later arrested four persons in connection with the incident. Speaking with Sunday Sun, the late children’s father, Nwaoha said he was yet to understand why somebody would cut short the lives and robust future of innocent children. He said it would be difficult for the gap created by the death of his two sons because the boys were his future hope.
Nwaoha advised other parents to, “look for maids to take care of your kids if you are busy all the time,” adding that if he had a maid what befell him couldn’t have happened. He appealed to the Abia state government to assist his family.
As the police were still grappling with the case of the murdered schoolboys, another suspected ritual murder occurred in the city.
A trailer driver, Ndubuisi (other names withheld) who hails from Amawbia, Awka in Anambra State, allegedly forced his wife, Chinyere, to drink some quantity of fuel and set her ablaze. The woman’s family alleged ritual murder.
Speaking on the incidents in Igboland, a chief priest, Kanu Nwaohamuo said ritual killing was not new in that part of the country. He said it started in the early days when able-bodied men, especially slaves and at times those that have offended the land were sacrificed to appease the gods. Children were not used for that purpose and ritual killings were not for moneymaking. It was done to either appease the gods of the land or as a mark of respect for a fallen king or great man in a community and were seldom done.
The chief priest regretted that these days, ritual murder of even innocent children, has become rampant in Igbo land, and mostly for moneymaking, describing the frequency of such cases as alarming.
He said ritual killing is crime against humanity and urged security operatives to double their efforts in fighting the crime.
The South South zone rated the lowest in ritual killings. For example, in Rivers state, Tony John and Canice Uzoukwu reported that the rampant crimes are armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism.
The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Benjamin Ugwuegbulam (DSP), also told Sunday Sun said that there had not been any reported case of ritual killing in the State.
Offered N1m for a virgin’s head
But Judex Okoro in Calabar reports that Cross River State has witnessed about seven cases of ritual killing in the last four years. One of the cases was in Ogoja in the Northern Senatorial District of the state where late Evo Okoh (24), was gruesomely murdered on November 27, 2009, and his vital organs removed.
Also, in 2010 at Ndayi village in Ugep, 23-year-old Patrick Eno Onen a.k.a. “Iwara”, a staff of the Nigerian Prisons in Calabar, allegedly snuffed life out of his eight-month-old twins by squeezing their fragile necks while asleep, for ritual.
For the alleged crime he was later banished by his community for the rest of his life until he is ready to atone for abominable act by performing certain rituals.
Narrating the ugly incidence, the babies’ mother, Blessing Bassey Onen said shortly after the babies were settled in bed, her husband gave her money to buy a packet of spaghetti.
“I bought the spaghetti, prepared it and served my husband and while eating, he further sent me to buy sachet water; quickly, I left and that was when he executed the act without my knowledge.”
In 2010, in Calabar Municipality, a young man, Udo Mbakara allegedly beheaded his two nieces and sold their heads for N1 million each.
Mbakara, who admitted killing the two children, Princess and Rachel aged nine and six years respectively, told detectives that “I drugged the food and after eating it, they fell asleep and then I carried them to their inner room where I started hacking their heads off” adding that,
“I was offered N1 million to bring a virgin head. I was to be paid two million naira for the two heads,” he said.
Mbakara, was alleged to have been in the business of selling human heads for rituals within Calabar metropolis
In October 2011, in Anantigha in Calabar South, one Effiong Edet (38), allegedly beheaded a mad woman for the funeral rites of his uncle, who was a chief.
He confessed to have drugged himself to be able to carry out the act.
But Edet was said to have killed the woman, “for moneymaking rituals, and not for a burial of any chief, since nobody would ordinarily send him to come to Calabar for a human head”.
Last year, a widow and mother of five, Mrs. Helen Ilonge was allegedly beheaded by suspected ritual killers who also cut off some of her vital organs.
The late Helen was the Primary Health Care Coordinator in Bekwara Local Government Area of the State. She was kidnapped while returning from a church programme at Assemblies of God, Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State, to her Ukpe village, along Ikom-Ogoja highway.
Some of the relations of the affected persons in an interview, expressed deep fears about the way and manner the investigations were being handled by the police.

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