Ritualist Arrested With Human Parts, N4m In Benin

Ritualist Arrested With Human Parts, N4m In Benin

The security operatives in Benin City, the Edo State have arrested a man disguising as a 'Madman' who specializes in the business of selling human parts at the Upper Sokponba road area of the state.

The suspected ritualists who was caught with different human parts and a sum of N4 million is said to have lived in a make-shift apartment for close to two years where he pretended to be a madman.

According to one of the landlords in the area who identified himself as Pa. Onaiwu confirmed that the suspect actually behaves like a madman said:  This man behaves like a real madman, in the afternoon, he takes his bath naked.

While stating the strange disappearance of dead bodies found in the area without some body parts said: “What really disturbed us are the dead bodies found around almost the same area. The most serious issues is that if a dead body is that of a woman, the head, the breasts and the private part would have been removed. Same also goes for a male dead body.

“The last person that died around the area was a woman whose head, breasts and private part was cut off.”

The Edo State Police Commissioner, Foluso Adebanjo, however said he is yet to be briefed on the incident.

Over the past few weeks, there has been reports of mentally-challenged persons being arrested by the Police for being in possession of strange items.

Just last week a mad-woman who was allegedly caught with N100,000, BlackBerry was beaten to a pulp by angry mob. Also this month a ‘Lunatic' who was discovered to be a Human Parts Dealer was arrested in Ibadan.

Source: Legit.ng

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