for serving human flesh. According to the BBC, suspicious residents told
police of rumors that the restaurant was cooking human meat for customers.
Police then raided the restaurant, where they discovered fresh human heads
that were still bleeding. The blood was in the process of being drained
into a plastic bag.
In addition to the illegal meat, authorities discovered automatic weapons,
grenades, and cell phones. Ten people were arrested in conjunction with
the crimes. One resident said, “Every time I went to the market, I
observed strange activities going on in the hotel. People who were never
cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of
the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities. I am not
surprised at the shocking revelation.”
A priest who ate at the restaurant was alarmed when presented with a bill
of 700 Naira, or roughly $3.50 (Tens of millions of people in Nigeria
subsist on less than $1 a day). “The attendant noticed my reaction and
told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill
scale that high,” he said. “I did not know I had been served with human
meat, and that it was that expensive.”
Last year, Australian chef Marcus Volke murdered and cooked his girlfriend
before killing himself. In Brazil, also last year, a man and two women
were arrested for murdering potential nanny candidates and then cooking
their flesh into empanadas.