One-chance: ‘We asked victim to kneel down, beheaded her’

A 55-year-old suspect, Toafeek Adam, who was caught in possession of a woman’s head and other body parts, has revealed how he and members of his gang, used a passenger bus to pick a woman and later chopped off her head for ritual purpose.

Adam said he worked with Islamic clerics and herbalists. The suspect also claimed that three of his children died mysteriously, soon after he killed his first female victim. He said: “A few months after I killed the first woman, I lost three of my children consecutively.

I believe God is using the death of my children to punish me. I regret my action. God should forgive and have mercy on me.” According to him, after killing the first woman, he was paid N8,000 He disclosed that he was paid N4,000 for participating in this latest killing that landed him in police custody. Recounting this latest killing, Adam said that the victim was killed near Ikoga River in Badagry area of Lagos on Tuesday.

He, two herbalists and an Islamic cleric took part in the killing. He noted that the deceased boarded a commercial bus at Sango-Ota, heading to Badagry.

The herbalist and the Islamic cleric were in the bus, posing as passengers. One of them sprayed a powder-like substance in the bus and the woman soon fell into deep sleep. Adam said: “Baba Ronke is a herbalist. He lives in Badagry. I sell firewood and coconut at Badagry; that is where we met and became friends.

Baba Ronke came to call me that they have brought another woman to be killed. He said I should come and join them. “The woman was brought from Sango-Ota to Badagry by the herbalist and the Islamic cleric, who are both friends of Baba Ronke.

When we got to the river, the Islamic cleric and the herbalist promised to pay me N4,000 after the operation.” When the herbalist, Islamic cleric and Baba Ronke came to him, he led them to the river, wherethekillingwouldtakeplace.

When they got to the river, Baba Ronke asked her to kneel down. The victim, who appeared to have lost her consciousness, calmly knelt down. Adam said: “Immediately she knelt down, I brought out my knife and slaughtered the woman from behind; blood started gushing out from her neck. Baba Ronke brought out another knife and cut out the woman’s heart, two hands and head.

We started the operation about 9 a.m. and finished by 11 a.m. The Islamic cleric had already collected her phone and handbag, which contained some money.”

The suspect claimed that Baba Ronke contracted for the first and second killings. He added: “The Islamic cleric couldn’t go with the parts. He begged me to bring it to him at Sango. I was going to deliver it when policemen arrested me.

The police saw me with the sack and became alerted because of the dripping blood. They ordered me to stop, opened the sack and saw the human parts. “When I was arrested, I begged the policemen not to alert the Islamic cleric, who was still around the area. Immediately the Alfa noticed I have been arrested, he bolted.”