FactCheck: X users recirculate photos of murder suspects in 2017, 2022 to mislead public

By Pascal Ibe

Claim

Two X users posted photos of two suspects paraded for killings and claimed the incidents happened recently.

Verdict

The photos posted by X users are MISLEADING.

Simple checks indicated that the incidents happened in 2017 and 2022 respectively.

Full Text

In what looks like an online tribal war, two X users have shared images of suspects paraded by the police for killings , possession of human parts.

First, Harry on X on Sunday, posted screenshot of an unknown news publication which displayed image of three men paraded.

He shared the screenshot and wrote, “4 Ogun teenagers slaughter girl, burn her head for money ritual!

“This is a pandemic guys.

4 Ogun teenagers slaughter girl, burn her head for money ritual!

This is a pandemic guys pic.twitter.com/0ZEri4Ega3

— Harry 🎯🎯🎯 (@chiditweets042) August 18, 2024

The comments which followed this post by Harry, shows that the intention of the user was to drag the Yoruba tribe.

See comments below 👇

Yoruba people go whine you say Igbo man na their problem but if you leave them alone with themselves they go finish themselves. Only this August the number of cannibalism and serial killing Yorubas have been involved in done reach 20 incidents. And month still de the 18th day

— Ako na Uche (@ako_na_uche_x) August 18, 2024

Teenagers!!! Lemme forget the Ogun part for now, I'll get to it later (there's a lot to unpack there). Teenagers don sabi road to babalawo already? A generation is wasting right before our eyes.

— CC Derek (@derekchichi) August 18, 2024

If they support bad govt finish, they will go for rituals to make money because govt is not our problem and to do ritual is the easiest way to become rich.
If govt doesn't give room for economic growth of the citizens, this will always be the headline.

— Tonia (@Tonia_dimma) August 18, 2024

The post generated more than 186k views and over 1k reposts on Monday evening.

However, in another post by WildCardoffIc’Ia on X, the user posted photo of a lady paraded with a human skull and claimed the incident happened recently in Anambra.

The X user wrote, “ A young teenage Igbo girl named, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, has been apprehended by Nigerian security operatives with two human heads..
The Anambra police arrested Chidinma and her parents after discovering over 80 human heads in polythene bags in their house.

A young teenage Igbo girl named, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, has been apprehended by Nigerian security operatives with two human heads..
The Anambra police arrested Chidinma and her parents after discovering over 80 human heads in polythene bags in their house. https://t.co/KCCmxGoDVu pic.twitter.com/hbUpjIgix4

— WildCardoff!c1a (@Aarelatoosa1) August 18, 2024

This post gamered over 128 views with many reposts.

The comments which followed this post by Harry, shows that the intention of the user was to drag the Igbo tribe.

See comments below 👇

Igbo again ahh

— Isreal D Iconic ⚓⚓⚓ (@isrealDiconic) August 19, 2024

Aye igbo ti baje. Cannibal set of humans. Una life Dan spoil

— wickedsmile (@wickedsmil59) August 19, 2024

Stupid igbos here trying to click ritual killings and barbarism to yorubas. Motherfuckers are the king makers of ritualism. I blame gowon , he suppose don wipe una out since. Fucking big head gypsies

— YOUR THOUGHTS (@ElMachiavellII) August 19, 2024

Verification

First, on the first claim by the X user, when we uploaded the photo on image verification tool, TinEye, result showed that the photo first appeared on DailyPost January 29, 2022.

According to report by TVC news, three young boys whose ages range between 17and 20 years were in the early hours of Saturday 29th of January 2022 arrested by men of Ogun state police command for killing a girlfriend of their friend for money making ritual.

The suspect, Wariz Oladehinde, 17 years, Abdul Gafar Lukman 19 years and Mustakeem Balogun 20 years were all arrested following an information received at Adatan divisional headquarters from the head of the community security guard, that the suspects were seen burning something suspected to be human head in a local pot.

The similar report on this can be found Here and Here.

On the second claim by WildCardoffIc’Ia, a simple Google image reverse search, showed that the incident happened in Imo State (Not Anambra) in 2017.

According to DailyPost, a teenage girl named Chidinma Iheoma has been arrested by security personnel in Imo state with a human head.

Iheoma, who hails from Mgbirichi area of the state, confessed that she and some of her friends killed two men and severed their head.

See other publication that supported this evidence Here and Here.

Conclusion

In order to drag each other’s tribe, X users internationally shared photos of incident which happened in 2017 and 2022 to mislead the public.