Aminu Baba, a prominent businessman dealing in cars and other vehicles at Aminchi Motors Gusau, Zamfara state, has opened up on his nefarious activities.
Baba, who was arrested by the police, confessed eating and selling human parts to some unknown persons.
He was arrested last week over the killing and dismemberment of a 9-year-old boy in Gusau.
The suspect told journalists shortly after he was paraded by the state police commissioner, Mr Ayuba N Elkanah, that he has three wives and 19 children.
He said he employed two teenagers to scout for young boys to kill for him and they had done that twice, getting N1million in return.
“I paid them N500,000 for each of the killing of the two young boys. We removed penis, eyes, intestines and Esophagus and I used to eat these human organs and sell some to those who need them,” he said.
He, however, kept mum about where he raised the money he used to pay the killers and also did not disclose whether he had collaborators in the state.
The police commissioner said the other suspect, Abdulshakur Mohammad, had confessed that that was the third time he was contracted by Baba to source for human parts.
He said he got N500,000, after the first and second operations before he was arrested.
He said connived with Baba and Ahmad Tukur to deceive the victim, who was taken to an uncompleted building.
Mohammad said after killing him, they removed his intestine, Esophagus, Private part and two Eyes, which they took to Baba who in return gave them N500,000 as agreed.
Two weeks ago, the remains of the nine year old boy identified Ahmad Yakubu Aliyu was found in an uncompleted building in Barakallahu area of Gusau metropolis.
Ahmad went missing shortly after he came back from Islamiyya School in Gadar Baga area of the city.
The owner of the building spotted the decomposing body of the little boy when came to continue his construction work.
He immediately closed the site and reported the matter to the police who later confirmed that Ahmad was killed and dumped.
Father Kills His 3 Children; Keeps Their Bodies in Fridge
In the same vein, police officers attached to the Enugu Metro Area Command of the Enugu State Police Command arrested 52-year-old Ifeanyi Amadikwa, pictured above, of 74 Nkwubor Road, Emene, Enugu, for allegedly murdering and dumping his three female children, namely Chidalum Amadikwa, 11 (his step-daughter), Amarachi Amadikwa, 8, and Ebubechukwu Amadikwa.
The suspect’s wife, who is also the mother of the children, walked to the market with her sole male child, leaving the others in the suspect’s supervision, according to preliminary investigation. However, when she returned in the evening of the specified date, she was unable to locate any of the three youngsters.
During their hunt for them, the suspect pointed out the above-mentioned fridge, which he had carried home from his business on January 2nd and kept in their apartment’s balcony. Closer inspection revealed the children’s lifeless bodies in the fridge, along with bruises, implying that they had been murdered and dumped in the fridge.
The lifeless bodies of the youngsters were immediately brought to the hospital, where they were verified dead by medical personnel on duty, and deposited in the morgue for preservation and autopsy, according to DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the state police command’s spokesperson.
While expressing his condolences to the mother of the slain children, Ndukwe stated that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Abubakar Lawal, has assured him that the police will conduct a comprehensive investigation into the case and ensure that justice is served.
