Ilorin: Police arrest Fulani with human parts

by Success Nwogu, Ilorin

The Acting Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State Command, Mr. Al-Hassan Akor, on Tuesday said the command had arrested a suspect, Mr. Ibrahim Abubakar, with human parts.



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Abubakar, 35, a Fulani, said he is from Ilorin but resides in Omu Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State.

Akor while speaking to THE PUNCH in Ilorin on Tuesday said the command got information on March 26, that a commercial motorcyclist, Mr. John Olalekan a native of Otun Ekiti in Ekiti State, was missing.

According to Akor, immediately the command got the report, it mobilised a search team that worked in collaboration with members of a vigilance group and the people in the area.

He said two days later, on March 28, Olalekan's lifeless body was found in a bush near Government Day Secondary School.

“One hand was completely cut off and some other parts removed. Some parts of the body had been removed. The head and the right hand from the shoulder were cut off.”

Akor said owing to the nature of the killing, they suspected that it must have been for a ritual purpose.

He stated that with good intelligence and reliable information, they were able to apprehend one of the suspected ritualists, adding that the command and other security agencies were working assiduously to arrest other members of the syndicate.

He said when the command searched Abubakar's house, the suspect claimed that the hands discovered in his house were that of a monkey.

“The dead body was later taken to the mortuary. It was on Tuesday morning that we got information by our men that there is a man they suspected.”

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But why would a Fulani ritualist not ritualize a fellow Fulani but chose instead to decapitate a Yoruba man? Is he looking for trouble, as usual?

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This one be like targeted ritualism.