Joshua
Akindele, 56, a confessed cannibal was recently caught by a vigilante
group in collaboration with members of the palace guard to the community
leader of Ajara Topa community in Badagry, Lagos.
Akindele reportedly operates from a hole he dug under the Gbaji bridge along the Badagry-Seme border.
Sources
say the accused was spotted by a man identified as Anthony Amos who
watched him crawl into the hole under the Gbaji bridge.
Akindele
confessed to behind several unexplained deaths in the area saying he
operates by hitting his victims dead or unconscious with plywood and
dragging them into the hole before splitting their parts for food and
selling parts to ritual buyers.
He confessed to have been previously jailed for 5 years after raping a 17-year old girl.
According
to him: I have been in this business for the past 15 years after my
friend advised me to stop riding okada and to join him in ritual killing
and cannibalism.
Whenever
I see somebody walking alone without being conscious of who is
watching, I walk slowing up to them and hit them with a big plywood on
their heads after which they fall unconscious, I then drag them into the
hole and use a knife to cut them into parts which I sell to some
churches and some ready buyers who indulge in ritual killing for easy
money, and some times when I feel hungry late in the night, I eat some
parts for food he said.
He
gave details of his body part selling business revealing that he sells
human heads for N7,500; breast for N1,500; penis for N1,000; hands and
legs sell for N3,500.
The
Baale of Ajara Topa community, Samuel Amosu Owolabi, said he visited
the scene of the crime and met the suspect being beaten by a mob.
Owolabi said he pleaded with the mob to let the confessed cannibal live so that he can be prosecuted according to the law.
It was confirmed that the suspect is now in the custody of the Badagry police division for proper investigation into the case.
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