Three
persons in possession of two human skulls have been arrested at a hideout in
Ogbomoso by policemen from the Oyo State Police Command.
The
state Commissioner of Police, Samuel Adegbuyi, said the arrest was made after
the police received information from members of the public, who had raised the
alarm that the suspects were dealing in human parts.
One
of the skulls was discovered to have had what looked like a deep machete cut at
its temple, leaving the police to suspect that the person the head belonged to
might have been gruesomely killed.
Ramoni
Akeem, 41, Azeez Ojelade, 36, and Salimon Salami, 40, were the suspects
arrested by the police.
Akeem
said he paid N10, 000 for the skulls and that Salami was the vendor.
Akeem
said, “I am a herbalist and I heal people with herbs. I have never used body
parts for rituals. One day, a friend came to me and said his friend discovered
two corpses on a land where he had wanted to cut trees. He asked if I knew what
body parts could be used for. I told him that I did not know anything about
charms prepared with body parts.
“One
of our friends, Saheed Ifa, who is a senior herbalist, heard about it and said
he could make use of the skulls to prepare charms. When the skulls were
produced, the man who brought them demanded for N10, 000. I paid him in four
instalments. But that is all I know about the skulls. Ifa has travelled to
Lagos. I don’t know where he lives in Lagos.”
Salami,
who claimed to have discovered the corpses, denied any wrongdoing.
He
said, “I was asked to cut some trees on a large piece of land but when I got
there, I discovered two corpses and I told a friend that I was afraid to work
on the land because someone killed two people there. He said I should continue
with my work while he looked for what to do with the corpses. When he got a
buyer, he contacted me and I went back to the bush and dismembered the heads
from the bodies,” he said.
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