Residents of Soka area, along Ire-Akari Estate,
Ibadan, Oyo State, were shocked to hear that one
of them, a popular shoe maker in the area, Mr
Kazeem Bamidele, also known as Kazzy
International Shoe Works, had been arrested with
human parts.
Saturday Tribune learnt that Bamidele was
arrested on Monday night in connection with
alleged murder of a Northerner, said to be an
okada rider. The police, it was gathered, led him
to his wooden shop on Friday morning and,
according to sources, discovered fresh human
head and legs of the victim where they were kept
inside a bush behind his shop.
Sources further informed Saturday Tribune that
Bamidele and his accomplice were busy
perpetrating this criminal act on Sunday, around
1.00 a.m, when two vigilance members serving as
security officers in the area became suspicious,
and asked them why they stayed so late in the
night.
According to sources, the vigilance group
members saw two people around the bushy path
in the area, one holding a knife while the other
was holding a gun.
The two vigilance group members were said to
have been surprised to see one of the two men
aiming his gun at them. The vigilance group
members then demanded to know what their
mission was in that area at that time of the day.
A source told Saturday Tribune: “On that fateful
day, some members of the Oodua Peoples
Congress (OPC) who are also vigilance men in
this area saw the man (Bamidele) with another
man in the night. When the OPC men asked them
what they were doing in the middle of the night,
one of them who was holding a knife told them
that he wanted to use it to cut coconut. His
partner was holding a gun.
“We were told that the OPC men had to confront
them that almost everybody living around the
area knew them as security guys; that the
suspects themselves could not deny that they
knew them. After minutes of conversation,
Bamidele and his partner could not hold it again,
giving the OPC men opportunity to move close to
them. That was what gave them the opportunity
to look through where they discovered what they
were doing.
“They saw a body of a human being whose head
and arms had been cut off. They (Bamidele and
accomplice) were still trying to cut something
from the victim’s throat. The area was littered
with blood, and at that point, the OPC men raised
an alarm, arrested them and attempted to invite
the police.”
Police sources confirmed the development and
informed Saturday Tribune that the suspects were
currently under interrogation.
When Saturday Tribune visited Sanyo Police
Station, the case was said to have been
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID), Iyaganku, Ibadan. On getting
to the SCID, it was discovered that the suspects
were under interrogation, new discoveries having
been made on the matter.
“The case is still under investigation, especially
when new discoveries were made. There can’t be
any comment on it now until the completion of
the on-going investigation,” a police source said.
Meanwhile, some of the residents who spoke with
the Saturday Tribune under condition of
anonymity said nobody noticed that Bamidele
was involved in such act. They said the story was
like a rumour to them until Friday morning when
some people suspected to be police officers came
in company with the victim and fished out fresh
human parts where they had been hidden in the
bush behind his workshop.
One of them said, “Everybody believed it was a
rumour until this morning (Friday) that we saw
the fresh human head with the man. That means
one must be very careful in this area.”
When Saturday Tribune visited Bamidele’s shop
on Friday morning, one young man who refused
to give his name, but was described as his
(Bamidele’s) apprentice, was seen in the shop.
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