Posted on: 03:24 Wed, 16 Dec 2015



Residents of Atele Street in the Anibaba
community, Ikorodu, Lagos State on
Tuesday woke up to find two naked
dead women, who were dumped by the
roadside.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the women,
whose identities had yet to be
known, also had their breasts cut off,
while their private parts were
removed.

The shocked residents tried in vain
to locate the families of the deceased
women.

According to them, the incident was
the second time in two weeks that
mutilated bodies of women would be
found in the area.

Just last Monday, six women were
found dead in a canal in the area on
Saturday, December 5.

It had been reported that their
decomposing corpses were thereafter
removed by officials of the Lagos
State Environmental Health
Monitoring Unit, and deposited in a
morgue in Yaba.

The Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, had
told PUNCH Metro that the relatives
of the women had yet to show up,
adding that the police were
investigating the cause of the
women’s death.

Now again, on Tuesday, two women
were found by the roadside, stripped
naked and mutilated.

It was gathered that some of the
residents reported the matter at the
Ikorodu Police Division and to the
Rapid Response Squad.

Officials of SEHMU were said to have
been invited to the area again to
attend to the corpses.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, a
resident, who gave her name only as
Iyiola, said the faces of the deceased
were not familiar to any of the
residents.

She said:

“The spot where we found these
women on Tuesday is just some
distance away from the canal. The
bodies were dumped behind a
house on the street.
“Just last week, six women were
picked from a canal in this area.

The bodies were found after a foul
smell pervaded our area. On
Tuesday, we were shocked to find
two fresh corpses. We strongly
suspect that the women were killed
by ritual killers.

“The bodies were stripped naked,
while their breasts and private
parts had been cut off. When are
we going to stop seeing dead
bodies?”

Another resident, who identified
herself as Iya Sarah, said:
“The police and the community
development association must do
something about these killings.

There is obviously a serial killer in
the community. One of the corpses
found was that of a lady, who was
stripped of everything.”

PUNCH learnt that some residents
had written letters to the Inspector-
General of Police, Solomon Arase, the
state Commissioner of Police, Fatai
Owoseni, and the National Human
Rights Commission in Abuja to
investigate the spate of killings in the
area.

The police spokesperson, Offor, could
not yet be reached for comment, as
his phone rang out.

However, the Public Relations
Officer, Lagos State Ministry of
Heath, Mrs. Adeola Salako,
confirmed to their correspondent
that the SEHMU officials found two
new corpses of women in the area on
Tuesday.

“You are right about the two new
corpses,” she said in a text message.
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