There was pandemonium in the early hours of Tuesday at Ibillo, a community in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State following the discovering of ten unidentified dead bodies by farmers at the Ibillo-Lampese axis of the Lagos–Abuja Road of the local government.
Some of the bodies were said to have been first discovered earlier by the farmers on their way to the farm at about 7:30 am Tuesday and alerted members of the vigilante group who were said to have combed the area only to discover more bodies that brought the numbers to ten in all.
A resident in the area, Comrade Victor Arogunyo who confirmed the incident through the telephone said the police were contacted and with the support of the medical personnel at the General Hospital Ibillo, the bodies were evacuated to the morgue.
According to Arogunyo, “This morning, I got a call that our farmers who were going to the farm saw some dead bodies littered on the sides of the road around 7:30 in the morning, I rushed there and actually found out that it was true. Immediately we got in touch with the police and eventually we found ten dead bodies.
“The corpses seem to be fresh because blood was coming out of the mouths of two or three of them but there were no signs of gunshots because the police who came tried to check signs of gunshots which they couldn’t find.
“Together with the general hospital in Ibillo, the police, the civil defence and hunters removed the dead bodies from the bushes and deposited them at the General Hospital in Ibillo. The incident happened between Lampese and Ibillo on the Lagos – Abuja Expressway”
“When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor confirmed the incident but said an official statement would be released.
“I just spoke with the DPO, Ibillo Division and he is going to send us a detailed information and the police will react officially but he said they were ten male bodies, no female that were found.”
