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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