It is the end of the road for an Islamic scholar identified as Alfa Gani based Ilorin, Kwara State, as has been arrested by the state police command after he was caught preparing juju concoctions with the placenta of a new born baby girl he had performed her naming ceremony the previous day.
Also discovered from the devilish Alfa was a room in his residence where several human parts including breasts, arms, legs, tongues and eyes, were found.
But for the timely intervention of the police, the Alfa and members of his household would have been lynched by angry youths in the area though his two buildings were not that lucky as they were burnt down by the irate mob.
According to police report, the devious Alfa’s business was discovered when the community leaders in the Laduba area where he lives, decided to raise some volunteers to go round the houses in the area to ask for contribution for the repair of their faulty transformer.
On getting to Alfa Gani’s house, the volunteers were greeted with offensive odour from the house. Worried, they alerted other members of the community about the odour. The volunteers, subsequently, mobilised more residents to the house of the Islamic cleric, asking him to explain the cause of the odour.
But Alfa Gani was said to have feigned embarrassment, accusing the concerned community members of trying to intrude into his privacy, a development that degenerated into an argument between him and members of the community who insisted that they must get to the root of the matter.
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 babyโs placenta which was the cause of the stench in the first place.
Consequently, the angry mob that had gathered descended on the boy, making him confess that the cleric asked him to exhume the babyโs 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 babyโs 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, and the Alfa was subsequently arrested.
