A suspected serial killer in Benue State arrested for killing 16 persons
and burying the victims in mass graves has said that he killed his victims for ritual
and supernatural powers.
The 30-year-old suspect, Iorwuese
Kpila, made the shocking confession while he was paraded on Friday
alongside six other members of his gang by the Benue State Police Commissioner,
Mukaddas Garba.
Kpila said he planted cassava on the mass graves as a decoy. The suspects
said they lured their victims who are mostly commercial motorcycle operators
popularly called okada and killed them.
He said: “We would tell okada riders to drop us at a certain location and
immediately we reached there, me and my gang members would grab the victim and
strangulate him with a rope. We would dig a grave, bury him and plant cassava
on top of the grave, thereafter sell the motorcycle.’’
He claimed that a spirit known as ‘Queen’ told him to kill 18 persons to
acquire supernatural powers ’to appear and disappear.’
He disclosed that he had operated for three months only, although some of
the bodies exhumed appeared to have been buried for more than a year.
CP Garba urged members of the public to feel free to offer his command
genuine information about criminals and their activities in the state.
