Monday, November 24, 2025 - Locals at Garam,
a Niger State community that borders FCT, have found five decomposing human
bodies in a bush.
They said the bodies were found near a farm located along the
Bwari/Abuja-Kaduna bye-pass road, through the Kagarko area on November 22,
2025.
The locals said each of the bodies had their faces tied and
were riddled with gunshots on their chests and other parts of their bodies.
The secretary of the youths in the community, Tanko Dikko,
told Daily Trust on Sunday, November 23 that the villagers discovered the dead
bodies when an elder in the community, who went to his beans farm, perceived an
offensive smell from nearby
Tanko, who participated in the mass burial of the bodies,
said after the discovery, they immediately informed authorities of the Tafa
Local Government Area, adding that officials of the social welfare unit of the
council visited the scene before the bodies were buried.
“When the report came to the notice of the village and the
district heads of the community, the police were contacted. They came with
officials of the Welfare Unit of the Tafa Local Government Area and, together
with the community leaders, the bodies were mass buried in a grave,” he
said.
He added that the deceased were all in English dress, with
some of them wearing only singlets.
Dikko said that while they were burying them, a flat Android
phone was found on one of the bodies, which was taken away by the police.
Another resident of a nearby community, Isah Sumaila, said
earlier on Tuesday night, some locals saw two cars, with one of them carrying
some people.
He said at a point close to the first police checkpoint along
the Bwari-Jere road, the vehicles branched into a nearby bush and a few minutes
after, they started hearing gunshots.
“After the gunshot, the vehicles came out and moved back
towards Bwari, but we really don’t know who they were,” he added.
According to him, it was three days later that a farmer from
the Garam community found the corpses of five people and rushed back to inform
the chiefs.
He said that sometime last year, there was an allegation that
security operatives from the FCT often brought arrested suspected bandits to
execute around the area.
“But honestly, it has been a long that we heard such a story
now, and we don’t know what actually happened that Tuesday night,” he added.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Niger State Police
Command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed the incident on Sunday said it has
commenced an investigation into the discovery of five decomposed human bodies
in a bush near Garam in Tafa Local Government Area
“On November 22, 2025, at 10 am, information received from
Garam village via Tafa indicated that five decomposed bodies were found in a
farm located along the Bwari/Abuja-Kaduna bye-pass road, through the Kagarko
area,” the PPRO said.
“Police operatives attached to Tafa Division moved to the
scene and found five male decomposed bodies with blindfolds, suspected to have
been dumped in the area by unknown persons.
“The bodies were observed with gunshot wounds on their chests
and machete cuts. They were evacuated with the aid of the Tafa local government
social welfare unit. However, the incident is under investigation to arrest the
perpetrators of the suspected culpable homicide.”
A source at the police division also confirmed that an investigation had commenced with the aid of the phone found on one of the bodies.
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