Ibadan Horror: Forensic experts exhume bodies, collect victims’ property

IBADAN—FORENSIC pathologists, yesterday, began exhuming bodies of some victims of the Soka kidnappers’ den in Ibadan for forensic analysis.

Soka-ForensicThe experts were drawn from the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and Nigeria Police from Abuja. This came just as the police dismissed rumours that some victims were still trapped underground.
According to Superintendent of Police Olabisi Ilobanafor, the Public Relations Officer of Oyo State Command, “how can a human being survive underground for more than three weeks without food or drink? Where will they get power to charge the phone people have been saying someone was calling with?

Ibadan horror: Tears as victim, relatives reunite

Tears of joy were shed on Tuesday at the Adeoyo State Hospital, Ibadan , where eight victims of the Ibadan horror forest were being treated.

The relatives of one of the victims, Wale Atoyebi, came to identify him.

Atoyebi, who could only say his name, was recognised by his uncle.

The senior Atoyebi said his nephew left home many years ago, adding that there had been no hint about his whereabouts.

He said, “He was living with his paternal grandmother in Ada, Osun State, but his father, who died eight years ago, lived in Ibadan.

No Alarms Over Kidnappers’ Den

BEFUDDLEMENT douses the recent police raid of Soka area of Oyo State on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway where, by police’s account a den of kidnappers was uncovered. The graphic images of the discoveries are causes for concern.Whose decaying body parts littered the place? Can the 20 decomposing bodies be identified? Who are the 23 people – 18 men and five women – found in the place? The poor state of their health and the fact that their legs were manacled suggests that they could have been held captive.

Neighbours have testified of possible unwholesome activities in the area, including child trafficking, sale of human parts, and newly born babies. They said their complaints to the police were untreated.
Among the women rescued was one who was said to have had a baby on the day of the arrest, the baby was missing. Skeletons were found in nearby bushes.

We are not mad – Victims of Ibadan horror

Some of the victims rescued from kidnappers’ den at the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, are gradually regaining fitness and mental ability. Although they have yet to give the accounts of activities in the forest, they  could remember events leading to their departure from their normal life. One of them, Nafiu Shittu, told our correspondent at the Adeoyo State Hospital, Yemetu, Ibadan, that he was a native pile medicine seller with customers in the business districts of Gate and Iwo Road.

Speaking in an almost inaudible whisper and intermittently pausing for breath, he explained that he was at work when he was kidnapped and taken to the forest.

House of Horror discovered in Ibadan

Soka community in Ibadan, Oyo State turned to a Mecca of a sort on Saturday, when an abandoned property at Idi Mangoro area was discovered with about 15 chained people suspected to have been kidnapped.

About six guns and several cutlasses were also recovered from the house beside it said to belong to Black Horse Plastic factory.