Residents of the Oyingbo area of Lagos State
have found a man, who was strangled, put in a
rice sack and dumped beside a canal.
An unidentified man who was strangled, put in a
rice sack and dumped beside a canal, has been
discovered by the residents of the Oyingbo area
of Lagos State
According to a shocking report by Punch Metro,
the victim, whose name is yet to be ascertained,
was stashed inside a sack and dumped at the
Jebba bus-stop area of the commercial city, was
initially thought to contain rubbish, until a
policeman, attached to a commercial bank in the
area, checked it and found the corpse.
It was learnt that the incident, which occurred
around 2:pm on Thursday last week, was
reported at the Denton Police Division, as
officials of the Lagos State Environmental Health
Monitoring Unit came to the scene to remove the
corpse.
Speaking to a correspondent, an eyewitness who
resident, who gave his name as Saheed Ijadun,
said the deceased, whose face was unfamiliar,
was tied on the neck with electric cables, while
his hands and legs were also tied, adding that
the policeman had wanted to urinate in the
canal, when he noticed the sack and checked
the content.
“I believe the deceased did not live around the
area. He was killed by hoodlums and dumped
around the canal. The policeman was the one who
raised the alarm.
“Some said the man was abducted from another
area, killed and then dumped by the canal. When
the sack was opened, I saw that he wore a pair of
jeans and a T-shirt. There were also electric cables
tied around his body,” he said.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident,
adding that the police had obtained clues on the
killers, adding that they would soon be arrested.
“The police are working assiduously to unravel the
case. Operatives from the Denton division already
have a clue they are working on. We are optimistic
that we will arrest the suspects in no distant time,”
she said.
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