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25-yr-old nabbed in possession of human skull
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 25-year-old man identified as Babalola Alex for being in possession of a human skull.
Reports say the suspect was arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command in the Asese area of the state after a member of the public called the attention of security operatives to two men bearing a sack.
The Ondo State-born suspect according to Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer was arrested in the early hours of Thursday by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad following the tip-off.
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The PPRO said, “On receiving the information, the policemen went after the two men and subsequently got one of them arrested, while the other one escaped.
“On searching the sack with the arrested suspect, it was discovered that it contained a human skull.”
Oyeyemi revealed that during interrogation, the suspect confessed that a herbalist asked him and his accomplice, identified as Ijebu to bring a human skull for money rituals.
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