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Inside human parts market in Lagos.
Sunday, February 15, 2009

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Jankara market is self- effacing and deceptively ordinary. Located close to Idumagbo area of Lagos Island, the market is just a stretch of an old street.

Ears on the ground
Like other streets and markets, canvassers and touts hang around the place pitching for customers and mugus (gullible people). Though low in reputation,touts are an essential segment of this time – honoured market. Over the years, the place has come to be known as a place where any thing goes. And so, the touts come handy here.
They have their ears on the ground, and therefore know all the goings-on.

Book and wait
A week ago, our reporter posed as a juju priest who was in dire need of human body parts for urgent rituals. After about four hours of waiting and being passed from one “contact” to another, and played around like ping-pong, the reporter got a dealer who “booked” him. The rule here is, if you want a fresh human body part, you book and wait. If your order is for dry parts you get instant delivery.
But you must be an expert in human anatomy to decipher the parts you want from man’s closest animal relations – gorilla, chimpanzee and monkey.

Dark secret
But don’t jump to a hasty conclusion, there are genuine traders and honest businessmen and women at Jankara.They perhaps don’t even know that the place also habour a dark secret. A police post even looks over the place. A signpost calls it Oko Awo Police Post. An office on the counter there stared at our reporter angrily when he asked him if the police know about the wheeling and dealing in human body parts in the area: “What kind of question be this? I beg go, no be for here—o” the police officer retorted angrily.

Menumo
This expression when translated literally means “seal your lips” in Yoruba. The term is said in whisper and hushed tone — menu…mo .When you say the first syllable, you pause, look around to be sure there’s no third party or curiosity cat eaves dropping. When a deal is struck, you will be taken to some dank shanties and courtyard for your consignment.

The business is all about raw cash. A fresh human head has a street value of N250, 000. Fresh internal organs like heart, lung, kidney, and so on go for 500,000 a piece.
Other vital parts like joystick, womanliness and bosom costs N50,000 each.Fresh tongue is sold at N100,000.
Sunday Sun learnt when a tongue is “ritualized and jujufied” that it “works well” for traders and people who apply for visa to go abroad “when well prepared, no one go question you for embassy and even your working place”, a dealer whose alias is Baba Ibeji revealed.
Toe and finger, Sunday Sun further learnt are good for travelers and business people. “ The toe is for traveling without falling.
The finger is to make money. Any thing you touch turns to money”, Baba Ibeji said.
Fresh toe and finger goes for N50,000 each.

Ritual animals
Even animals considered endangered species are not spared in Jankara. Herbalist beside the area’s butcher shop openly sell a wide range of animals. Imprisoned in wire-mesh cages are live animals like eagles, tortoise, chamellion, alligator and so on. A live eagle goes for N10,000.
Dead and dry one costsN500,000. Live Tortois costN5,000 while ordinary empty one is sold for N2,500.
Live chamelion costs N2,500. Dead and dry one goes for N2,000. The lizard-like creature, Sunday Sun learnt, is in demand by Advance Fee Fraudster —419. “When the thing is worked”, it means the more you look, the less you see, you will never caught,” one of the dealers who declined to give his name said.

Tough-skinned
The dealers know their terrain and the world they inhabit.They smell and sense danger in the air all the time. They are inclined to do business with you if you mention and have a prove of a regular Juju priest and customer. Even at this, they will still carry out a check on you. There’s no physical search. Under the pretex of “bringing your thing”, they will call your guarrantor and run a check on you. Any discovery of falsehood, they will cancel the deal and melt out of sight, leaving you to wait forever

Where missing people go
Jankara might be the possible place where missing persons in Lagos resurface but reduced to faceless, liveless body parts. As though to corroborate this, the managing director of Lagos State waste Management Authority (LAWMAN), Mr Ola Oresanya told Sunday Sun in an interview that hardly a day passes in the city without street sweepers and refuse collectors picking dismembered corpses and body parts.

“The corpses and body parts may be the handwork of ritualist and hit-and-run drivers”, he said.
Meanwhile Sunday Sun learnt that the morgues in the city are brimming with unclaimed dcorpses.There’s no more land for mass burial. So cremnation is the only option,” the source said.

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Hehehe! Religious war brewing in Odualand. I laff in ajangbadi language

Lagos: Police arraign Chief Imam for destroying Archbishop's fence

Written by Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare-lagos
Thursday, May 30, 2013


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The Chief Imam of Lagbasa Central Mosque in Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, Alhaji Akibu Alarape Adam, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate's Court sitting in Igbosere, for damaging the fence of an estate.

Alhaji Adam, who was arraigned alongside four others; Alhaji Oseni Falana, Chief Shamisudeen Elegbeleye and Tunde Ashafa was alleged to have conspired with his accomplices to destroy the fence of a 10 Acres of land located at Langbasa Estate, in Eti Osa local government.

The defendants were arraigned on a three count charge for malicious destruction of the fence of an Archbishop

According to the Police Prosecutor, Michael Okon, the defendants destroyed the fence valued at N3million belonging to Archbishop (Dr) Felix Alaba Job.

Part of the charge read: "that you, Akibu Alarape Adam, Oseni Falana, Shamsudeen Elegbeleye, Tunde Ashafa and others at large sometimes in 2012 at Alaba Estate Langbasa town, Eti Osa Local Government, did maliciously damage fence of entire 10 Acres of land valued at N3million, property of Archbishop Dr. Felix Alaba Job."

The alleged offence committed by the defendants is punishable under Sections 52, 337 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail in the sum of N5million by Magistrate H. O Omisore.

Alhaji Adam is still being remanded at Kirikiri prisons, following his inability to meet his bail conditions.

The matter has been adjourned till July 2, 2013 for trial.

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/may/30/601.html

Topic should read ''In SW Nigeria, it's no crime selling human parts - Suspect''

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

It's no crime selling human parts - Suspect

by Eniola Akinkuotu and Sharon Oremichen


Kayode (human parts seller)



The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a grandfather, Mr. Segun Kayode, for allegedly exhuming and selling human parts.

According to the police, the suspect, who works at a cemetery in Epe area of the state, was arrested with a human skull.

Police sources told PUNCH Metro that the suspect sold human parts for a living, adding that he had become notorious in the area for selling human parts.

It was learnt that the suspect was arrested following a report by a resident who saw him displaying a skull for sale.

The grandfather, who could not give his exact age, said he started selling human parts because he was poor and jobless.

He said, "I live at 2,Tungbehin Street, Epe. I have two children and I am a grandfather. I have always been poor all my life because I had no formal or informal education. I used to be a fisherman but when there were no longer fishes in rivers in my area, I became a gardener at Epe Local Government Secretariat

"About four years ago, the LG said they no longer needed my services so I started trimming grass at a cemetery in the area."

The suspect, who did not deny the allegations, said there was nothing wrong in selling dead people's parts since the dead never used them.

He said one day, while he was clearing weeds in the cemetery, he noticed a human skull which had been dug up.

He said, "Most times, when a corpse is not buried with a coffin, the possibility of the corpse resurfacing is very high. So, what workers at the cemetery do is to gather some of the corpses and burn them instead of burying them again.

"I realised that this was not a smart thing to do since it would be better to make money from it. The families of these dead people never care about them once they are buried and weeds had taken over the cemetery."

The suspect said he sold only two corpses while he had on numerous occasions given them out for free.

He said, "I have sold only two human heads. I sold the first one for N1, 000 while I sold the second one for N1, 500. Last week, a resident approached me saying an herbalist needed the head so I got a decomposed head, for him, washed it and put it on a fence to dry.

"A resident saw me and raised the alarm and that was how I was arrested."

PUNCH Metro had reported last week that five people, including an herbalist, were arrested for selling human parts.

A police source told one of our correspondents that the trend was common in areas where public cemeteries were situated.

"Areas which are not located in the metropolis and have cemeteries have become the hideout for cartels which specialise in sale of human parts. We (police) have reason to believe that some of these human parts dealers also engage in ritual killing," he said.

The source added that efforts were going on to arrest other human parts sellers in the area.

When contacted on the telephone, the spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed Kayode's arrest. She said he had been transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba.

maasoap: Osun State. No single soul has been lost to violence since the incumbent governor came into power be it through political, ethnic or religion violence (except the guy that was killed during subsidy protest). We are enjoying unparalleled peace in the Land of Virtue.

Cheap, shame-faced liar

Peaceful news from Osun


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maasoap: Osun State. No single soul has been lost to violence since the incumbent governor came into power be it through political, ethnic or religion violence (except the guy that was killed during subsidy protest). We are enjoying unparalleled peace in the Land of Virtue.

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Ijebu imushin.

ijaw citizen: Its really funny how the Igbos took that nickname seriously 'cos it fuels their greedy agenda of Igbo spread and dominance in the Niger Delta. They even went as far as claiming "Ebele" to mean the Igbo 'ebele'. Up till now some claim Ogbia to be Igbo.

Abeg make I laugh small in OBJ-to- atiku style!

Fake Ijaw man.

Umu Igbo kwenu

madam_oringo: No bad news or drama from the SW so an ibo boy/man just had to dig something up! I guess they are working to make better the lot of their people.

So these are good news? You are so so shameless.

S@NNiE:
Such practices include making the widow to shave her head, drink the water used to bathe her husband's corpse, sit on the floor and sleep in the same room with the corpse.

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In which Igboland is this still in practice? May be in Achebe's village but certainly not in the Igboland I come from. Crass misinformation and generalization.

automaticcarzz: Ojukwu indeed! Is that all you saw in my post? Ojukwu fought a senseless war he couldn't win, then ran away. Why he took his people to senseless war?

You are just a small-minded bigot. Your own past posts clearly bear you out as hateful, spiteful man. I am reading them as we speak, and all I see are insults to those who oppose you, blatant dislike for anything Igbo, hatred for Ojukwu whose shoe lace you could not tie, and hatred for Niger Delta people in general, including Jonathan.

automaticcarzz: I went through your posts of the past and I can conclude you need mental help. There is so much hate of anyone who is not of the same tribe as you. Seek help little man!

Your own past posts clearly bear you out as a hateful, spiteful man. I am reading them as we speak, and all I see are insults to those who oppose you, blatant dislike for anything Igbo, hatred for Ojukwu whose shoe lace you could not tie, and hatred for Niger Delta people in general, including Jonathan.

automaticcarzz: You seem to be angry, troll. There is nothing civil about you. I just read some of your posts and you have charecteristics of a troll. Continue with your hatred of anyone who is not of your tribe. Your username is shows how deceitful of a person you are.

Again, I repeat, only iiddiiootts maintain their ignorance even when corrected. Keep it up.

Who else but an iiddiioott infers that all Igbos they have met (including their girl friend) communicate in a certain way and seem immature, except for one they met online.

automaticcarzz: You do have problem.

Well, you can keep wallowing in your ignorance and self conceit. Only f/o/o/l/s do not acknowledge their mistakes.

automaticcarzz: Just an opinion of the way political discourse should be. It shouldn't be about insults and rancour. There is way to disagree and still be civil. You've done just that.

You appear quite self-conceited, dude.

automaticcarzz: Did you see? Molestation is not monopolized to Hausa/Fulani alone. Yoruba, Igbo, Efik and so on had done that before. There are bad people in every tribes and there are good people in every tribes.

Stop comparing apples and oranges. Have you seen/heard of Igbos and Yorubas ra//pi//ng northern women repeatedly in the North?

[quote author=automaticcarzz][/quote]No other ethnic group in Nigeria is as insulting as Yorubas. You know an Igbo girl and a few other Igbos, but I lived and grew up among Yorubas and know them like the palm of my hands. Have you been to Igboland where Igbos concentrate?

[quote author=automaticcarzz][/quote]Can you now recant your ignorant claim that non-Igbos cannot be in govt in Igboland?

They also r/a/p/e/ village women in farming communities

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