Members of a gang of killers have told the police in Benue State how and why they killed commercial motorcycle operators, popularly known as okada riders, in the state.
One of the suspects, Iorwuese Kpila, said they killed the 16 okada riders and buried them in shallow graves for supernatural powers.
Speaking during his parade on Friday alongside six other members of the gang by the Commissioner, Benue State Police Command, Mukaddas Garba, at the Police Headquarters in Makurdi, Kpila said he planted cassava on the graves of their victims as a decoy.
Kpila 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.”
Kpila said a spirit known as “Queen” told him to kill 18 persons to acquire supernatural powers “to appear and disappear”.
He said: “My father was a native doctor.
“I have four wives but they left me with their children.”
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