It was gathered that a passerby along the rail line in Ikeja saw three men in tattered clothes with one of them making a call and another eating a meat suspected to be human flesh.
The passerby raised an alarm that attracted the mob which instantly pounced on the suspected cannibals. Luck was on the side of the one making the phone call as he managed to escape....
When the angry mob got to their hideout behind the Ikeja Local Government Secretariat fence, a cutlass, knife, charms and meat with fat were found there.
Upon the arrival of a detachment of policemen from Area ‘F’, Abiodun told them, that he was a carpenter but had no money to set up a workshop.
He told the police he is from Akiniku in Moloney area of Ilaro, Yewa, Ogun State, and that he made the hideout his residence as he could not afford to rent a room for himself. He explained that the meat discovered in their hideout was a cow fat which they eat and not human parts.
After intensive questioning, the policemen were convinced that the suspects were mistaken for human parts eaters and sellers by the mob. They were later released.
P.M.NEWS reports that a police officer who preferred anonymity advised the public to investigate suspected criminals before taking any action. But for the timely intervention of the policemen, the officer noted, the suspects would have been set ablaze.
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