By Nsikak Nseyen The Police Command in Oyo State says it has arrested 11 suspects in possession of nine dry human skulls, one fresh ...
By Nsikak Nseyen
The Police Command in Oyo State says it has arrested 11
suspects in possession of nine dry human skulls, one fresh human head,
intestines and other vital body parts.
SP Adewae Osifeso, the Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO) of the command, disclosed this on Thursday in Ibadan while briefing
journalists.
Osifeso who disclosed that the suspects were arrested in
their hideout at Orita-Aperin area of Ibadan, added that 16 others were
arrested in connection to an alleged kidnapping and armed robbery.
He explained that discreet intelligence gathering carried
out on Feb. 22 by a police monitoring unit uncovered the criminal activities of
the suspects.
He said that the suspects specialised in selling human
skulls and other organs for ritual purposes.
The PPRO said the 11 members of the criminal gang had all
confessed to the crime upon interrogation.
He informed the press that the suspects confessed that the
dry human skulls were harvested from corpses at burial grounds and that the
fresh human head and other body organs were harvested from persons after being
killed by their kingpin, simply identified as Amuludun who is now at large.
Osifeso said an investigation was now in progress to arrest
the fleeing suspects, adding that further developments would be communicated to
the public later.
Meanwhile one of the suspects and the wife of the principal
suspect now at large, said she knew her husband as an Islamic cleric and was
surprised when the human skulls were found in his office.
She said she went to her husband’s office to collect money
for foodstuffs when the police came and searched the office where the skulls
were found.
The command’s spokesman also said the seven suspected armed
robbers who invaded Felele community, Ibadan with guns and some other dangerous
weapons were arrested.
Osifeso said the victims raised an alarm when the armed
robbers were fleeing, adding that the alarm attracted a police monitoring unit
that arrested the suspects.
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