A man, Taofik Adara, arrested in
Badagry on Sunday with female body parts, yesterday said he was paid
N4000 by a herbalist to kill the woman. Adara, alias Kie-Kie, was paraded at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja. He said he chopped off the woman’s head with a cutlass, while two alfas (Islamic clerics) and a herbalist held her hands. The victim, he added, had been hypnotised by a native doctor before he killed her. Adara, 61, said the cutlass used was given to him by the herbalist who hired him.
He said the woman, whose identity was still unknown, was brought to
him from Sango Ota, Ogun State by the two alfas who needed fresh human
parts to prepare a concoction for their client. Adara said: “I live at Itoga-Zeba area of Badagry. I am a woodcutter
by profession and at times I assist owners of coconut plantation to help
pluck coconut.
“The whole drama started on Saturday evening when one of my herbalist
friends known as Manase came to me to say that he was expecting two
alfas from Sango Ota. He said they would be coming with a lady and that
he would pay me N4000 to help butcher the woman. He told me that the two
alfas needed some fresh human parts to prepare a concoction for one of
their clients. “True to his words, the two alfas arrived at Itoga on Sunday evening.
I noticed that before their arrival the two alfas had used some charms
on the lady. She was just obeying their directives without asking any
question. I asked her where she came from and she explained that she
resided at Ota and that she had gone to seek spiritual help from one of
the alfas. “Around 9am on Sunday we took the lady deep into the forest, close to
a river. Manase asked her to kneel and she did. It was while she was
still kneeling that I chopped off her head with a sharp cutlass given to
me by Manase.” He likened killing the woman to butchering a ram. He said after severing the victim’s head from her body, Manase
instructed him to hold on to the head, while he (herbalist) removed her
heart and two hands.
“Manase told me that the two alfas needed the lady’s head, heart and
two hands from the wrist. He then took away the remains of the victim to
use on a later day. It was while he was cutting off other essential
human parts that a policeman who resides in our area arrived. The police
would have arrested four of us if he had not shouted. The three of them
took to their heels when they heard the noise.” Adara said last Sunday’s incident was his second involvement in such
act. He said he killed another person about a year ago, adding that the
victim was also brought to him by his herbalist friend. According to him, Manase paid him N8000 for the first job. “The first victim was also a woman. Manase had agreed to pay me N3000
but those who came for the human parts gave me an additional N5000
making it N8000,” he added. The suspect, who has two wives and 15 children, begged for
forgiveness, stressing that he would feel bad if any member of his
family was so treated.
Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni said Adara was being detained at
the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department
(SCID) at Panti, Yaba, Lagos Mainland.
He said all those involved in the Oct would be brought to book.
Source: The Nation 
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