11-year-old Papayo Kalokoh murdered for juju ritual, body gutted of organs, eyes, and hand. Mother warns kids against strangers amid frequent child abductions. Police refuse to classify as ritual murder due to single pathologist for 8.9 million people. Juju practitioner Kanu boasts networks supplying politicians in Guinea, Senegal, Nigeria during elections. Kanu shows dried female skull and slaughter pit for human sacrifices. Human limbs cost 70 million leones for rituals. Idara runs 250-herbalist network kidnapping victims for body parts trade. Police raid nets bones, hairs, cemetery dirt but suspects released on bail. Even cops fear juju powers and avoid investigations. Ritual murders misclassified as accidents or suicides, 90% unsolved. University lecturer and journalist's cousin also ritually killed, cases stalled. Politicians and chiefs buy body parts, fat, ashes for power. Traditional healers disavow but outnumbered 45:1 by doctors. Beliefs in human sacrifices for prosperity deeply rooted even among Christians and Muslims.
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