The Oyo State
Police command has arrested seven suspects in connection with discovery
of skulls in an abandoned building at Soka area of Ibadan last Saturday.
According to the
police, no fewer than seven suspects have been arrested.
This was
disclosed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Olabisi Ilobanafor
yesterday, in Ibadan.
Decomposing
bodies, skulls, human parts and some half-dead people believed to have
been hypnotised by the ritualists were found in the bush.
Among the
suspects arrested were two persons caught in the area and five security personnel
working in a nearby company.
While vowing
that the command would take all necessary steps to bring all culprits to
book, Ilobanafor said the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, had
swung into action that would lead to the arrest of other suspects.
Explaining
further how the den was discovered, she recalled that a group of 100 area
boys had invaded the Toll gate behind state urban Mass Transit Yard, located at
Soka in search of two missing cyclists when they discovered an uncompleted
building where two women and five women were found chained and totally unkempt.
While one
Abideen Akanmu who claimed to have been employed by one Gbadamosi was arrested,
the police are on the trail of the leader of the gang who is now at
large.
All the
suspects arrested, she added would be charged with murder and unlawful
possession of fire arms. The captives rescued from the bush, she said, had been
taken to hospital for treatment while corpses found were also deposited at the
morgue.
Items recovered
at the building were three Dane Guns, three single barrel, one bow, 16
arrows, 22 cutlasses, 40 live cartridges, seven table knives, one
axe, two iron files and one handset