In 2014, a group of young motorcycle taxi drivers, or "okadas," in Ibadan, Nigeria, discovered an abandoned warehouse surrounded by barbed wire in the middle of a forest. The warehouse was found to be a storage facility for a highly in-demand, illegal product: human body parts. These parts were believed to be used in magical potions and charms, and the warehouse was established to meet the high demand for these body parts.
The warehouse was operated by a man in a black jeep who would get orders from people wanting specific body parts for their magical potions. At 8 p.m., he would show up at the warehouse, communicate with the workers, and determine which captives were going to be used that night. They would then chain up these captives, drag them to a center of the room, and put them on a slab known as the "slaughtering slab." The required body parts would be hacked off and bagged up, put in coolers, and then taken away by the man in the black jeep. If the captive did not have a good chance of survival, they were discarded and likely killed in the back rooms of the warehouse using methods such as a makeshift guillotine or a chained-up crocodile.
In March 2014, a third okada vanished. His friends and community launched a search for him. They discovered that he had been kidnapped and taken to the underground prison cell in the warehouse. The okada riders decided to go to the warehouse themselves, hoping to find their friend and the other captives. However, when they arrived, they found the warehouse to be empty. The police were called, but they refused to dig up the property and eventually left the area.
The okada riders continued their search, digging up the entire property themselves. However, they never found the entrance to the underground prison cell or the other captives. The total number of victims is believed to be in the hundreds, as indicated by the large amount of clothing and shoes found in a black shack near the warehouse. No one has ever been officially held accountable for the atrocities that took place in the Soka Forest warehouse.
The story ends with the okada riders discovering a man who was walking around the area acting suspiciously. He had several human tongues and dozens of cell phone sim cards in his pockets, leading the okada riders to believe he was part of the operation at the warehouse. They proceeded to kill him.
1. In 2014, a group of young men discovered an abandoned warehouse surrounded by barbed wire in the middle of a Nigerian forest.
2. The warehouse was found to be a storage facility for a highly in-demand and illegal product: human body parts.
3. The warehouse was used to meet the high demand of people who required these parts for their magical potions and charms.
4. The man in the black jeep would get orders from people who wanted specific body parts, make a list of those parts, and show up at the warehouse at 8 p.m.
5. The people at the warehouse would determine out of all the captives who had the parts they needed, unchain these people, and put them on a slab known as the slaughtering slab.
6. The required body parts would be hacked off and bagged up, put in coolers, and then the man with the black jeep would take those parts and leave.
7. The people who could no longer harvest organs from were discarded in the back rooms of the warehouse, where they found a makeshift guillotine and a large crocodile chained up.
8. The warehouse was discovered by a group of motorcycle taxi drivers, called okadas, in Ibadan, Nigeria.
9. The okadas launched a search of their own when two of their members went missing.
10. The missing okadas were found to be kidnapped and taken to an underground prison cell in the warehouse.
11. The okadas found the warehouse and discovered the horrific conditions inside, including the slaughtering slab and the makeshift guillotine.
12. The okadas and local residents began digging up the entire property in hopes of finding the missing okadas and the rest of the people trapped underground.
13. The police were called to the scene but refused to dig up the property and eventually left the area.
14. The okadas continued to dig up the property for several weeks in hopes of finding their missing members.
15. The total number of victims is believed to be in the hundreds, given the massive amount of clothing and shoes found in the black shack.
16. No one has ever been officially held accountable for the atrocities that took place in the Soka Forest warehouse.