Enugu ‘ritual’ killing: 5 more skeletons discovered, victims identified *Keke riders mourn
27th Jan. 2016
About five more skeletons were said to have been discovered at the site of the church building where three bodies of victims of suspected ritual murder were exhumed on Tuesday, before a shocked community.
With the full identification of the victims of the alleged ritual murder buried at the church building site in Ugwuaji, a suburb of Enugu metropolis in the Enugu State capital, members of The Tricycle Riders’ Association (TTRA), otherwise known as “Keke Riders,” called for the full weight of the law to be met on the perpetrators.
The call came on Wednesday, when the executive members of the association, visited the Central Mosque, at Asata, Enugu, where the victims named as Babangida Sale, Ashahabu Dauda and Ismahil Abdulahi, worshiped, on a condolence visit.
Led by Comrade Ikah Benjamin Ejiofor, the group in an emotion-laden occasion described the gruesome murder of the three keke riders, whose bodies were exhumed from a foundation of the church building in the community, located along the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, as “most wicked and despicable, most barbaric and against the principles of life.”
Shocked onlookers at the site
His words: “Our members are rendering very important service to the society and it is so bad that the same people we are serving should turn back to treat us this way.
“We are grieved so much over this colossal loss and that is why we are here to commiserate with the Hausa community in Enugu. We are indeed in this tragedy together; we are so much pained.
“They left their different units on Saturday but never returned, adding that “a search party was later organized and that is the result of what we saw on Monday. At this moment, our plea to security agents is that this evil should not go un-punished; no stone should be left untouched in a bid to bring the perpetrators of this dastardly act to book.
“We cannot categorically say whether they were killed for ritual or not, because even their tricycles have not been found; so, we are leaving that aspect for security agents.”
He advised keke riders to henceforth stop picking people for drop to isolated areas.
A representative, who spoke on behalf of the Hausa community in Enugu, A.A Sambo, while describing the death of their brothers as most shocking, said: “We lack words with which to describe this situation; is so sad that vibrant young men left home in the morning in search for daily bread but never returned alive; it so sad that they were hacked to death in such manner.”
Meanwhile, one of those who participated in the search further disclosed that apart from the fresh bodies of the three keke riders, there were about five other human skeletons.
“We even saw some female bags at that scene, which suggests that some women must have also fallen victims,” he disclosed.
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