Nigeria (Benue State): ‘I killed 16 victims and offered their blood for ritual’

Not all ritualistic murders follow the same pattern. Even though the case presented below differs from the ‘traditional’ ritual murders, the perpetrators are also driven by greed and superstition (webmaster FVDK). 

Iorwuese Ikpila aka Dr. Kwagh Akorom Me Nenge (catch me if you can) in red and his gang members

Published: September 27, 2019
By: Osumanu Al-Hassan 

A notorious kidnap kingpin who led a gang that specialized in the abduction and murder of his victims even after collecting ransom has revealed that he slaughtered 16 persons and offered their blood for a ritual to acquire wealth and power.

The kidnapper, Iorwuese Ikpila aka Dr. Kwagh Akorom Me Nenge (catch me if you can), who was paraded on Thursday by the Benue Police command alongside six other accomplices claimed he was the son of a native doctor and usually had communion with a ‘Queen’ in the spirit realm who directed his gang to sacrifice 20 persons after which they would become rich and powerful.

“So from there I and my people kidnap people and when we kidnap them we kill them and give their blood to our ‘Queen’ for power to get anything we want both power and money.

“I have been in the business for three months because the ‘Queen’ mandated that we should complete the blood sacrifice with 20 people for us to acquire whatever we needed but so far we have killed 16 persons.

“After abducting our victims, we dispossess them of their belongings, we strangulate them and give their blood to the ‘Queen’ and after that we bury them.

“But I have now realized that all powers belong to God. Before now I confessed my sins to the Policeman that arrested me. He also took me to a Pastor in Katsina/Ala even before taking him to the graves where I confessed my sins,” he added.

Iorwuese Ikpila who claimed to be 30 years old said he had four wives and four children.

Earlier the Benue state Police Commissioner, Mr. Garba Mukaddas said the arrests of the gang followed a tip-off.

They specified that the gang kidnapped sixteen persons, robbed them of their vehicles, motorcycles and other belongings, killed their victims, buried the corpses and planted cassava on the graves as a way of covering the crime.

Further investigation led to the discovery of sixteen shallow graves. Eleven corpses have been exhumed and identified by their family members.

“A receiver of the properties stolen by this gang, one Shizoon Nyityo has also been arrested. Items recovered from the suspects include one locally made single barrel gun, a rope used by the gang members to strangulate their victims and assorted charms. Investigation into the matter is ongoing,” Mr. Mukaddas said.

Source: ‘I killed 16 victims and offered their blood for ritual’ [Kidnapping kingpin’s horrific confession]

Leader of the kidnap gang in Benue State, Iorwuese Kpila

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Bizarre Confession: Our Target Was To Kill 20 People, Says Benue Kidnap Kingpin

Published: September 27, 2019
By: SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK

The 30-year-old said that he wanted to be powerful and influential in his community even beyond Benue State that was why he engaged in criminal activities.

Leader of a kidnap gang in Benue State, Iorwuese Kpila, 30, has said that he and his colleagues were given a target by one ‘queen spirit’ to kill 20 people and take the victims’ blood for ritual purposes.

Iorwuese made the confession on Friday while being paraded at the Benue State Police Command headquarters in Makurdi, the capital, alongside six members of his gang and five others arrested for child trafficking, armed robbery and other crimes.

The 30-year-old said that he wanted to be powerful and influential in his community even beyond Benue State that was why he engaged in criminal activities.

He said, “I was born in 1989 and I’m married with four children and four wives but so far, only one wife is staying with me and she is not aware that I’m into this.

“My father was a native doctor and he worked with so many spirits. When we kidnap people, we kill them and dispossess them of their valuables.

“We give them concoction that make them carry out whatever task we ask them before killing them.

“So far, we have kidnapped 16 persons, robbed them of their vehicles, motorcycles and other belongings, killed the victims, buried the corpses and planted cassava on the graves.

“The ‘queen spirit’ directed us to do so and after meeting the target of 20, we would acquire whatever we want in life.

“It is the ‘queen spirit’ that consumed the blood of our victims.”

Source: Bizarre Confession: Our Target Was To Kill 20 People, Says Benue Kidnap Kingpin

Another suspected serial killer arrested in Benue, confessed to killing 16 Okada men 

Published: September 27, 2019
By: Nurudeen Lawal 

Police have arrested another suspected serial killer and kidnap kingpin, Iorwuese Kpila, in Benue state.

Kpila reportedly confessed to killing 16 persons who are mostly commercial motorcycle operators.

According to him, a spirit known as ‘Queen’ told him to kill 18 persons to acquire supernatural powers ’to appear and disappear’. 

Iorwuese Kpila, another suspected serial killer and kidnap kingpin in Benue state arrested for killing 16 persons has made more mind-blowing confessions. According to a report filed by The Nation, Kpila said he buried the victims in mass graves, adding that he killed his victims for ritual and supernatural powers. The 30-year-old suspect made the shocking confession while he was paraded on Friday, September 27, alongside six other members of his gang by the Benue state police commissioner, Mukaddas Garba. Kpila further confessed that he planted cassava on the mass graves as a decoy.

Confessing further, the suspects said they lured their victims who are mostly commercial motorcycle operators and killed them with a rope and afterwards sell the victims’ motorcycles. “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 confessed.

Kpila also claimed that a spirit known as ‘Queen’ told him to kill 20 persons to acquire supernatural powers ’to appear and disappear.’

Garba urged members of the public to always feel free provide his command genuine information about criminals and their activities in the state. 

Source: Another suspected serial killer arrested in Benue, confessed to killing 16 Okada men.