NEWS: 16-yr-old apprentice kills 4-yr-old boy for human parts

 

The quiet community of  Ijanikin Otto has been thrown into mourning, following the murder of a four-year-old boy, identified as Ibrahim Jamiu Hassan, by a teenager, who reside in the same compound with the victim.

  According to Vanguard, the toddler was allegedly killed yesterday morning behind Anglican Primary School, Deeper Life Bus Stop, by a furniture apprentice, named Tajudeen, aged 16 years.  The suspect, who initially said nobody asked him to get the human parts, later confessed that one Osan, who lives behind Oto Awori palace, sent him to get human parts.  Meanwhile, mother of the deceased is currently in labour at an undisclosed hospital, about to put to bed. When Vanguard visited the scene of the incident yesterday, a team of policemen, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Ijanikin Divisional Police headquarters, Robinson Egagare, were seen evacuating the remains of the slain boy.  ‘I removed his kidneys, intestines’  The suspect, Tajudeen, who is in police custody, said: “We lived at 7, Jewugbadun Street at Okoko before we moved to Mosalashi Street in Ijanikin, sometime last year.  “Sincerely, Ibrahim did not offend me, neither did his parents. I have known him since we moved into this area. I play with him and buy him biscuits and sweets.  “I am an apprentice with a local furniture workshop in the neighborhood. I removed his kidney and intestines and abandoned them at a nearby bush before I was arrested.  “I have not committed this kind of crime before. It was Osan that sent me to help him get human parts. It was this morning (yesterday) that I lured Ibrahim to Anglican Primary School, where I used a knife to kill him.”  When contacted, the Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Patricia Amadin, said on receiving a distress call, the Divisional Police Officer of Ijanikin went to the scene of the incident and removed the corpse of the deceased, who was in a pool of blood.  He added that the corpse was later deposited at a mortuary and the suspect arrested as investigation was ongoing.