Photos: Two Brothers Caught With Decomposing Body Parts Of Their Dead Brother In Festac Town


The entire Festival Town, commonly called FESTAC in Lagos was thrown into pandemonium on Thursday evening as a decomposing body of a man was discovered inside a duplex on B Close, House 6 of 3rd Avenue. The decomposing body, it was gathered, was that of the younger sibling of two brothers allegedly living together in the duplex which was left for them by their deceased parents.
The corpse was identified as that of Akinbuyi Ajayi, 39, living in the same apartment with Toye Ajayi and Omotola Ajayi, who were identified as his brothers. He was allegedly killed by his brothers and his body kept in a room inside the flat. The corpse had been mutilated by the two brothers. A police source alleged that Toye and Omotola were selling the body parts of their brother for money, adding that the two were caught with some human parts which eventually led to a search on their apartment by law enforcement personnel.

Toye and Omotola were suspected to have chopped off the head, hands, private part and part of the two legs of Akinbuyi and allegedly sold them to suspected ritualists. The decomposing body of Akinbuyi was moved by the policemen attached to FESTAC Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Mohammed Mu’azu, a Chief Superintendent of Police and officials of Amuwo Odofin Local Government council to a morgue, while the police took other items recovered from the house into custody.

Residents of FESTAC came out in their large numbers to watch the horrifying spectacle as the council officials and policemen removed the body. Apart from the body that was recovered from the house, charms, amulets, a pot filled with human blood and two large dummies of human beings were discovered. Some of the charms and amulets were concealed inside a carton with the inscription: Lord Krishna Agabarthi 999.

Omotola, who claimed to be an engineer denied knowing anything about the corpse. He claimed to be jobless, adding that he depended on goodwill of people to survive along with Toye. He denied knowledge of the death of his brother. He explained that Akinbuyi was arrested recently by sanitation task force, adding that the deceased spent three days in prison.

Omotola also said Akinbuyi was born in 1973 and that he usually went out and came in at will. He told the police that his brother’s killers must have committed the act before dumping the deceased inside one of the rooms. He further said their father died in a motor accident recently. Their father, he claimed, was the owner of the duplex where they live. Akinbuyi’s corpse was dumped in one of the rooms upstairs.
Toye described himself as a primary school teacher. When the police asked him where he teaches, he could not utter a word.

17 COMMENTS

  1. I reserve my comments.Omotola used to be my landlord.I lived with this family in this same house back in 2000-2001 before I left nigeria to Europe.It is unfortunate Madness runs in the family and they do not have family members to watch over them as their father a former comptroller with nig. immigration died when they were so young,mother also strayed away and uptill date she has not been found,maybe dead also.Please I beg that the police should check their mental state.The one killed was also mentally retarded.Almost all to my observation with exception of 2.Please check well before you judge them.

  2. Linda you know the family well I live across the road and knew Tola I had an experience wit him that made me judge his mental capacity.
    I arrange a job for him all he had was just go to the office and answer a few questions just mere protocols, they were three in number u wont believe that he got to cms and turned back. And the other two guys are gainfully employed today so that action was not a very sane one.I don’t want to take as an excuse that because their parents died early that it was a contributing factor, there are worst cases people are orphans at birth and still make it in life .The reason why the commited such a gruesome act still remains a mystery now the residents in festac will be more security conscious as you may have a killer living next door

    Chidi Festac Resident Across the Road

  3. CHIDI
    August 5, 2012 at 9:58 am

    Linda you know the family well I live across the road and knew Tola I had an experience wit him that made me judge his mental capacity.
    I arrange a job for him all he had was just go to the office and answer a few questions just mere protocols, they were three in number u wont believe that he got to cms and turned back. And the other two guys are gainfully employed today so that action was not a very sane one.I don’t want to take as an excuse that because their parents died early that it was a contributing factor, there are worst cases people are orphans at birth and still make it in life .The reason why the commited such a gruesome act still remains a mystery now the residents in festac will be more security conscious as you may have a killer living next door

    Chidi Ofoegbu Festac Resident