Police nab mad couple with human parts under bridge in Lagos
Detectives attached to Ijanikin Police Station , Lagos State Command, have arrested a mad couple with various human parts residing under a bridge at Cele NICA bus - stop, Ojo on the Mile 2 – Badagary expressway.
The incident caused huge panic as residents besieged the place to catch a glimpse of the couple whom they claimed were pretending to be mad .
The residents said the couple ’ s pretence was to shield people from knowing that they actually deal in human parts .
One of the residents , Shade Oluwakemi, said it was the lady who was arrested first .
She said it took a combined team of the police and some residents hours before they dragged the man , dressed in dirty clothes , from under the bridge.
She said but for police presence , residents were prepared set the couple ablaze .
The woman with an undisclosed identity according to residents , had been living under the bridge for several months .
However , residents who suspected her moves, monitored her movement until the startling discovery was made yesterday .
Another resident, Arewa Sunday, who also spoke , disclosed that three human heads and different human parts were found in the suspect’ s possession .
The eyewitness said the lady allegedly threw away a telephone she was with into the bush on sighting officials of the Neighbourhood Watch Corps who were immediately contacted.
A trader , who identified herself as Mrs. Winfred Orji, said : ” I was going to the market when I stumbled on the crowd .
I had to alight from the commercial bus to know what was going on. To my shock , I saw different human parts: both fresh and dried .
Sometimes , smoke would be billowing from where she stays on top of the bridge .
We concluded that she was cooking , unknown to us that she was roasting human parts .
A man ’ s body was also found there, with his wristwatch still working . ”
When contacted , spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Chike Oti , said ”at about 10:00 a . m .
yesterday , we received a distress call from a resident at a community in Olorunsogo that a mad woman who stays at the bridge was carrying a nylon and on close inspection they found a human skull inside . ”
The incident caused huge panic as residents besieged the place to catch a glimpse of the couple whom they claimed were pretending to be mad .
The residents said the couple ’ s pretence was to shield people from knowing that they actually deal in human parts .
One of the residents , Shade Oluwakemi, said it was the lady who was arrested first .
She said it took a combined team of the police and some residents hours before they dragged the man , dressed in dirty clothes , from under the bridge.
She said but for police presence , residents were prepared set the couple ablaze .
The woman with an undisclosed identity according to residents , had been living under the bridge for several months .
However , residents who suspected her moves, monitored her movement until the startling discovery was made yesterday .
Another resident, Arewa Sunday, who also spoke , disclosed that three human heads and different human parts were found in the suspect’ s possession .
The eyewitness said the lady allegedly threw away a telephone she was with into the bush on sighting officials of the Neighbourhood Watch Corps who were immediately contacted.
A trader , who identified herself as Mrs. Winfred Orji, said : ” I was going to the market when I stumbled on the crowd .
I had to alight from the commercial bus to know what was going on. To my shock , I saw different human parts: both fresh and dried .
Sometimes , smoke would be billowing from where she stays on top of the bridge .
We concluded that she was cooking , unknown to us that she was roasting human parts .
A man ’ s body was also found there, with his wristwatch still working . ”
When contacted , spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Chike Oti , said ”at about 10:00 a . m .
yesterday , we received a distress call from a resident at a community in Olorunsogo that a mad woman who stays at the bridge was carrying a nylon and on close inspection they found a human skull inside . ”
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