Photo: Islamic Cleric Nabbed For Using New Baby’s Placenta For Rituals

Alfa Gani would have succeeded if not for the youths of the
community who were sent out to go round the community to ask for contribution
for the repair of their faulty transformer.

On getting to the suspect’s house, the youths were greeted
with offensive odour. Worried, they alerted other members of the community
about the odour and a crowd marched to his house to question him.

Alfa Gani felt insulted and said they were intruding his
privacy and headed to a police station to report the community members so they
could be arrested.

Immediately he left, the youths entered his apartment where
they met a boy preparing some charms with the baby’s placenta which was the
cause of the unpleasant smell in the first place.

The angry youths descended on the boy which made him confess
it was the cleric that asked him to make a charm out of it.

Soon after that, the cleric arrived with some policemen and the
youths explained what they found. The policemen then decided to search the
uncompleted building around his house, and found other human parts.

As that was going on, the mother of the newly born baby who
was at home suspected foul play when she heard a new born baby’s placenta was
found with Alfa Gani who christened her child, she ran to where the placenta
was buried, and it wasn’t there.

The police later arrested the cleric and prevented the angry
mob from pouncing on him. His properties were later brought out of his house
and burnt, while part of his house was also burnt.

Police in Ilorin says they have begun their investigation on
the matter.