Police arrest shoe maker with human parts in Ibadan

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.