WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MEN TODAY? : I Use Human Parts for Pepper Soup, Confesses Nabbed Native Doctor .. THISDAYLIVE

Lagos State Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide

By Chiemelie Ezeobi
Sixty-year-old native doctor,  Gazali Akwedola, has confessed that he not only trades in human parts, he indeed consumes them, by using sensitive organs for pepper soup delicacy.  

According to him, the taste in the human parts lies in washing it down with a hot drink, cold beer or wine. He also uses the human intestine, liver, heart, eyes, lips and tongues for pepper soup.

He said: "I like eating human parts because it tastes so good and better than animal meat especially when taken with hot drink, or wine or beer.”

Beside eating the parts for its said pleasure, he explained that eating the human flesh also notches up his trade before his clientele. As he put it, "But another important reason (for eating human flesh) is to assure my customers that it is eatable and sweet and comes to play especially in the spiritual and physical benefits. It can cure serious illness and can make one get rich quick.”

Akwedola, was one of the three other suspects who were at large when the men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) led by the Officer-in-Charge, SP Abba Kyari, raided the hideout of the ritualists last month.

The suspect who had gone into hiding when some of his gang members were arrested, was however lured out by an accomplice on the pretext that he had another ‘consignment’.

The native doctor alongside 35-year-old Alfa Taofeek and 25-year-old Kazeem Sanni, are currently cooling their heels at SARS, pending the conclusion of investigations.

The father of eight however said his dabbling into rituals was to cure people of ailments and help those who want to get rich quick achieve their aspirations.

He said: "With the human parts, I prepare charms and concoctions for my clients. I buy the human parts from Kazeem Sanni especially the human head which he sells to me between the region of N8,000 to N 30,000."

He further disclosed that he decided to buy the complete human body as it was a lot cheaper. He said: "After some time, I decided to buy the complete human body for N30,000 or N40,000 because it is cheaper especially a live human.

"Asides that, you get a lot of parts, especially costly parts from it and it is more powerful because the efficacy of the charm or concoction you prepare with live parts cannot be compared with the ones you prepare with dead parts.

"For instance, the full live human being will give you blood when you kill him. There is medicine or charm you prepare with it. The same body will give you hairs from private parts, head and some beards or moustache”.

It was not certain how he preserves the human parts. 

"You can also cut out private parts. Each part of the human body is useful. Even the meat and intestine, liver, heart, eyes, lips, tongues can be used for pepper soup. By the time I cut the parts I will end up getting N100,000 or more," he said.

In an interview with journalists, Akwedola explained why he does not use his children or relations for rituals  since the money he was acquiring was for them and their disappearance would arouse suspicion.

"I prefer strangers that are from far away. It is a secret business so people in your vicinity should not get wind off, otherwise they would lynch you," he said.

Akwedola’s only regret in his dastardly venture is that he did not become rich after all, adding that despite his many criminal exploits, he found it difficult to feed his family.

But another suspect, Taofeek, said he only buys   human heads but does not kill anyone. He said: "I bought the human head and ground it and mixed it with gin drink to enable me to become rich. I have been making people rich and I wanted to attain that height too”.

Folahan, an indigene of Owode Yewa in Ogun State, confessed that he was an Islamic teacher with his own Islamic school in Owode Yewa, before he delved into rituals.

Another suspect, who also doubles as a rice seller, Sanni, said he delved into the business because his business was not moving well.

The Lagos State Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the series of arrest began with one Jamiu Adeleke, who was arrested by SARS' operatives in Owode town in Ogun State with a human hand which he was trying to sell for N21,000.