Police Arrest 8 Human Parts Dealers

Kwara State Police Command has arrested eight suspects in connection with the human parts markets uncovered recently in Ilorin and Tabira village, both in Kwara State. Five of the suspects were
arrested in Ilorin, the state capital, while the other three were nabbed in Tabira in Baruten Local Government Area of the state.The state police command stunned the public with the discovery of an uncompleted building in Ilorin being used for ritual activities. A similar den was uncovered in Tabira village on July 22.

Parading the suspects, Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, stated that the command’s detectives, acting on intelligence report, arrested one Amos (surname withheld) and during investigation, a search was conducted in his house, where human parts, including heads and arms, were recovered. He added that an accomplice, identified as  Abubakar, was also arrested and both allegedly confessed to dealing in human parts.
Speaking with Daily Sun, one of the suspects, Amos, said most of their patrons were politicians and businessmen.

Meanwhile, many residents have described the discovery as a major breakthrough in the effort to curtail the rampant activities of kidnappers in the state in recent times.

A resident, Alhaji Amosun Orelope, said people had had to dispense jungle justice on suspected kidnappers, who were accused of kidnapping in the community.

Early last month, a 35-year-old man, Mallam Salman Rafiu of Okelele in Ilorin, who was declared missing, was found alive around the uncompleted building where he was rescued by passersby at about 10 p.m.

The victim, who is the Secretary of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Shao Garage branch, Ilorin, said he had gone to a bank ATM to withdraw money where he met five other customers on the queue before he joined them.

“Some others came later and the man next to me asked if the ATM is dispensing and I said yes, that was all I could remember when I found myself in the hands of kidnappers in a dirty room,” he said.