Police Nab Islamic Cleric Preparing Concoction With Placenta

A bizzare incident occurred on Wednesday night in Laduba, Ogidi area of Ilorin West Local Government Area as an Islamic Cleric, simply identified as Alfa Gani, was caught using placenta to make concoction.

Gani, the house where the placenta was found

Apparently it was gathered that  the placenta he used was that of a new baby girl he performed her naming ceremony the previous day.

Following the shocking discovery, sources said human parts were also found in the cleric’s residence.

For the timely intervention of the police who quickly whisked the cleric and his family away, they would have been lynched by angry members of Laduba community who demolished his building and set the suspect’s property on fire.

The Islamic cleric was caught after some volunteers raised by the community leaders in Laduba to go round the houses in the area to ask for contribution for the repair of their faulty transformer became suspicious on getting to his house following an offensive odour which they perceived.

The volunteers who became worried, alerted other members of the community about the odour, which led to the mobilisation of more residents to the cleric’s house to find out the cause of the offensive odour.

Alfa Gani was said to have feigned embarrassment, accusing the concerned community members of trying to intrude into his privacy, as a result it led to an argument between him and members of the community who insisted of finding out the cause of the odour.

The suspect, the source further said, angrily left them in his house to lodge a report at the nearby Oloje police station but before his arrival, the residents were said to have forced their way into the house where they met a boy preparing some charms with the baby’s placenta which was the cause of the stench in the first place.

As a reesult the angry mob reportedly descended on the boy, making him confess that the cleric asked him to exhume the baby’s placenta to prepare the charms.

In the middle of the confusion, the mother of the baby was said to have rushed to the point where the baby’s placenta was buried only to discover that it was no longer there.

While the commotion lasted, Alfa Gani, according to the source, arrived the scene with some policemen with the intention to arrest those trying to “intrude into his privacy” but the community rose against them and presented the true version of the story to the Police.

“It was at that point that the police decided to search the entire house following which they discovered more human parts,” a source said.

The police, it was further gathered, extended their search to an uncompleted building behind the suspect’s house only to discover that the place was being used as a slaughter slab for human parts.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident but said it was not a case of human parts selling.

He said a man was caught with baby placenta and the community descended on him.

Okasanmi said the man was just released from prison where he served a term for similar reason, saying: “We are still investigating the case.”

The latest discovery brings to three, the number of suspected human parts markets discovered in Ilorin and Okuta towns in Baruteen Local Government Area in recent times.

The men of Kwara State Police Command had, penultimate week, paraded three human parts dealers, while the police were still investigating a four-storey building along Airport Road in Ilorin where human parts were also found.