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Claim: A Facebook user claimed an uploaded video showing littered bodies abandoned in an undisclosed area in the Southwest is a recent development.
Verdict: Misleading. Reports from credible media outlets reveal that unaccounted bodies were found in the Soka area community, Ibadan, in 2014.
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On Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, a Facebook user, Nwa Biafra Info TV, shared a video showing gory and gruesome scenes of dried skulls and fresh bloody human parts in a completely abandoned building project. The user asserted that this happened recently.
Aside from multiple dismembered human parts, other items discovered at the building were personal effects such as footwear and clothes.
Alongside the video posted, the Facebook user wrote, “The Afonja ritualists are more concerned about the coming of Biafra, but this is what is happening in their backyard-PM.”
The documentary clip, with a Television Continental (TVC) watermark, has amassed about 17 likes, one comment, and 23 reposts as of Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024.
Due to the post’s sensitivity and the existing politico-ethnic feud between the three major nationalities, DUBAWA decided to verify the claim.
Verification
DUBAWA carried out a Google Reverse Image Search on some of the screenshots of the video clip. We came across a similar video documentary posted by TVCNews on YouTube on March 25, 2014.
In the clip, TVC News reports how a secluded building believed to be a habitat for mentally deranged persons was discovered to be an abode for kidnappers who captured their hapless victims and killed them there. The discovery was made by a group of motorcyclists who had formed a search party for their lost colleague before they found the hideout.
A similar video file was found on YouTube by SaharaTV, which was posted on March 29, 2014.
DUBAWA then conducted a keyword search related to the incident, and we came across media reports that provided more information about it. A news report by Daily Trust on March 29, 2014, narrates a criminal den uncovered by the Nigerian Police in the Idi Mangoro area of the Soka community in Ibadan, Oyo State.
According to the report, the police discovered human bones, guns, cutlasses, shoes, handbags, clothes, and other personal effects, which were found in two containers in the eight-room building.
Vanguard, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and AllAfrica also reported similar narratives.
Conclusion
Findings reveal that the video posted by the Facebook user is not recent; the video is a 2014 TVC documentary about a kidnapping den in Soka, Ibadan.
