Update: Victims Recuperate In Hospital

Ten survivors of Ibadan’s “forest of death”, who were rescued on Saturday, are receiving treatment at the State Hospital, Adeoyo.


The bush, which is littered with decomposed bodies and human parts, is in Soka, Oluyole Local Government of Oyo State.

Yesterday, a crowd of people wielding cutlasses, clubs, shovels, iron rods and other weapons insisted on demolishing abandoned buildings in the bush, where the victims’ captors allegedly harvest human organs and parts. The buildings used to be factories.

Oluyole Local Government Chairman Abass Aleshinloye, who witnessed the evacuation of the victims on Saturday, described the action of their captors as “criminal”.

A hall in one of the abandoned buildings and abandoned vehicles on the site were full of clothes, shoes and jewelry, which might belong to their victims.

Most of the clothes were ladies’ wears.