An Anambra State-based rights activist, Mr. Osita Obi, has called on the police in the state to investigate allegations that some kidnap victims who cannot meet ransom demands have their body parts sold.
Obi told DAILY POST that he forwarded a viral voice note from a victim who regained freedom to the state Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, immediately after he saw it, urging him to investigate the matter.
“I told the commissioner to look for someone to interpret the voice note for him since it is in Igbo, so that they can investigate and apprehend those responsible.
“They always say when you see something, you should say something. So when we report to the police, we expect them to take it up from there.”
He regretted, however, that he has not been able to get any reply since he sent the note to the commissioner.
In the voice note, which has gone viral, a man who goes by the name Aso Rock — recently released from a kidnappers’ den, alongside a priest, Rev. Fr. Nonso, who just returned from the U.S. — revealed details about the operations of kidnappers in the state, including their location, in a leaked telephone conversation.
Aso Rock, a businessman said to be a rice mill owner in Anambra, stated that some victims who cannot meet ransom demands have their body parts sold to ritualists, while their remains are disposed of in a pit, with chemicals poured on them to prevent foul smells.
He said: “Me and the Reverend Father were kidnapped and whisked to a certain kidnappers’ den at Urum, Awka North Local Government Area.
“I was blindfolded along with the priest and kept in a closet. I spent N10.3 million as ransom, while the priest, according to him, paid over N20 million for his freedom.
“I saw how human beings were being slaughtered alive and their vital organs harvested for sale. There is a well in the kidnappers’ den where the remains of those slaughtered alive are thrown into.
“These kidnappers operate an enterprise in the forest, as they employ cooks who prepare their meals and those of their victims. There are small boys among them, all wielding guns. In the evening, you see them preparing to go out, and once they go out, they always come back with people,” the businessman lamented.
Activist urges police to investigate alleged sales of body parts of kidnap victims in Anambra