Reports from Abuja, Nigeria capital city indicated that a cross dresser known as Abuja Area Mama may have been beaten to death.
Nigeria Police Force in a statement said a dead body of a man who dressed like a woman was found dead on Thursday morning after members of the public called the attention of the police to the incident.
Some of the eyewitnesses who saw the lifeless body of the cross dresser said he could have been beaten to death.
The cross dresser, Abuja Area Mama in a recent media interview, said, he does prostitution at night and alot of men patronize his business.
He said he does not sleep with a man till day break, saying, he was always want to go home and rest till next day. Adding that, he always do short time.
There are suggestions that he was killed after he went out at night to for his prostitution business.
Police spokesperson said the Commissioner of Police of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Benneth Igweh, has ordered an immediate investigation into the death of the cross dresser, the police described as an unidentified person.
It was gathered that the cross dresser’s corpse was found along Katampe-Mabushi Expressway, Abuja in the early hours of Thursday.
The FCT police Command’s Spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said, “A distress call was received by the Command Control Room on August 8, 2024, at about 07:40am, that an unidentified lady was seen lying motionless along Katampe-Mabushi Expressway, and a team of Detectives were immediately dispatched to the scene.”
The statement added that preliminary investigations revealed that the individual was a man fully dressed in female clothing with no means of identification on him.
“He was immediately taken to Maitama District Hospital where Doctors on duty confirmed him dead.
“The Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Benneth Igweh has promptly ordered a thorough and discreet investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding his death.”
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