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Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Redomi(op): 8:51pm On Oct 09, 2025
Orji is originally from Enugu State, the south-eastern part of Nigeria but lived in Lagos state, the south western part of Nigeria where he originally guised as a razor-blade merchant but would later abandon the trade and proclaim himself to be a shaman and on multiple occasions would feign temporary insanity to dissuade people from coming close to his place of abode. Orji did not possess a house and lived under a bridge in Oshodi-Isolo In what could be well described as a lair and would later be commonly referred to as
'Clifford's kitchen." In the dead of the night, he usually blanketed the air around with the meat-like odour from his special barbecue. people merely suspected that this barbecue-loving recluse was not normal; that he was possibly mad but no one was prepared for the horrendous discovery of that haunting Wednesday.On February 3, 1999 A shrill cry of a famished and emaciated lady, waiting to be slaughtered, was what gave Orji away that Wednesday. The noise attracted passers-by who not only discovered the woman but also stumbled on a collection of human parts in Orji’s make-shift home. Human bones, skulls, legs, hands, freshly cooked soup with human meat, a cheque for ₦80,000, and a mobile phone, at a time when the G.S.M. had not been fully introduced to the Nigerian market, so only wealthy people had mobile phones. Surrounded, Orji ran but the crowd gave chase, no one noticed a small, emaciated woman imprisoned inside the tyres of Orji’s shack. It was only after he was caught and dragged back to watch the mob demolish his home that Awawu Lawal was discovered awaiting her turn on the menu. The sight of the filthy, starving woman drove the crowd wild. They beat her captor until the police arrived. Lawal died several days later after falling into a coma. The crowd then turned their attention to a man they knew to be Orji’sfriend, Tahiru Aliyu. He lived nearby The mob tore his shack down too, and found a 4m pit underneath where some of the victims were kept before they were killed and cooked. The cannibal told the police he would entrance women by blowing on their foreheads and they would then follow him back to the underpass. “I will have a sexual affair with her to a state of coma before we slaughter her and roast,” he said. “I am not alone. I have between four and 10 people. They take their own parts and go while I wait for another `meat’.” Orji’s statement to the police has fuelled speculation that he was butchering his victims for more than his own consumption. People in the area said they regularly saw upmarket cars stopping beneath the flyover. To some it explains why none of the victims heads have been found. In Nigeria there is a discreet trade in body parts for religious or medicinal ceremonies. At a news conference organized by the police, Orji confessed to kidnapping, murder and cannibalism, saying that he and his accomplice "had been eating human meat for the past seven years before coming to Lagos. It is our culture to eat human meat." On December 7, 2000, he was remanded for murder in Kirikiri Prison, which is Nigeria's only super-maximum prison.
In April 2012, after approximately 12 years in prison without his case coming to trial, Orji sued the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Ade Ipaye, for unlawful imprisonment. Prison authorities stated that they had been unable to have him treated for mental illness, which had progressed and he could not be tried when insane. He died at the age of 46 on August 17, 2012. An autopsy established that his death was from natural causes.

Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by MaziObinnaokija: 9:06pm On Oct 09, 2025
grin bEAST wild animal that time.i remember like yesterday,to waka pass that Toyota, nah wah
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by MaziObinnaokija: 9:08pm On Oct 09, 2025
cool full human body EATER sad. First in Nigeria. Otokotos peepz cheesy sad angry grin cheesy
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Redomi(op): 9:10pm On Oct 09, 2025
MaziObinnaokija:
cool full human body EATER sad. First in Nigeria. Otokotos peepz cheesy sad angry grin cheesy
you forgot to add Rev. King
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by MaziObinnaokija: 9:22pm On Oct 09, 2025
grin renowned head hunters that time.Those kids shouting Afonjas skullminers aren't born that time. Rev King nkoh grin? That one that flogged his sl@ves grin grin cheesy. And yes,I remember oga EVANS the Chief kidnapper cheesy sad undecided
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by MaziObinnaokija: 9:25pm On Oct 09, 2025
cool thank u. I remember that bia bia pastor. Nah him gave birth to IDABOSKI BAHOSE tongue grin liquid meta
Redomi:
you forgot to add Rev. King
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by tunde1200(m): 10:40pm On Oct 09, 2025
Remind of those days of this beast.
To even pass that side go Mafoluku they fear me...!
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Acme45: 11:07pm On Oct 09, 2025
I thank God I wasn't a victim. Because I passed that bridge on foot almost every day within 6:30 and 7:30pm.
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Adexvivacity(m): 11:29pm On Oct 09, 2025
So vivid like yesterday....otokoto. The days of Calenders sellers....nkan n bẹ
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Double0h7(f): 11:30pm On Oct 09, 2025
I can’t imagine how bad that area had to smell to not notice the smell of decaying flesh in the air. Is there no fresh air that could be disturbed by the smell of human flesh being cooked and rotting flesh in the air? How bad did that area smell!!! That a cannibal could just be living in a shack and be bbqing 🍖 people! Wtaf 😱


Acme45:
I thank God I wasn't a victim. Because I passed that bridge on foot almost every day within 6:30 and 7:30pm.
Can I direct this question to you? Did you not smell rotting flesh in the air when you were walking past?
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by IJAYA001(m): 4:04am On Oct 10, 2025
Where are the name checkers? I want to confirm something.
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by Redomi(op): 2:49pm On Oct 10, 2025
Just Like yesterday. Please move this to front page
Re: Story Of Clifford Orji: Nigeria’s First Known Serial K!ll£r And Cann!bal. by MaziObinnaokija: 11:35am On Oct 11, 2025
Double0h7:
I can’t imagine how bad that area had to smell to not notice the smell of decaying flesh in the air. Is there no fresh air that could be disturbed by the smell of human flesh being cooked and rotting flesh in the air? How bad did that area smell!!! That a cannibal could just be living in a shack and be bbqing 🍖 people! Wtaf 😱
U dnt knw CRIMINALS sha.Dem fit dey burn 🔥 paper,planks others rubbish to cover up such/dig pit to hid waste,intestine etc.


Can I direct this question to you? Did you not smell rotting flesh in the air when you were walking past?
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