Oyo police arrest 3 suspected human body parts dealers

A team of policemen from the Oyo State Police Command arrested three persons in possession of two human skulls at their hideout following a tip-off by members of the public who informed that the suspects were dealing in human body parts.

According to the state Commissioner of Police, Samuel Adegbuyi, the police swiftly moved into action following the alarm raised by members of the public and when they stormed the hideout to apprehend the suspects, two human skulls were found with one of them discovered to have had what looked like a deep machete cut at its temple.

The police are now summing up that the person the head belonged to might have been gruesomely killed.

The suspects Ramoni Akeem, 41, Azeez Ojelade, 36, and Salimon Salami, 40, were later arrested and while they were answering questions from newsmen at the police station where they were held, they began to recount their mode of operation.

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According to one of the suspects, Akeem, one of his accomplice, Salami was the vendor and he (Akeem) paid the sum of N10, 000 for each skull purchased.

“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.” Akeem said.

Continuing, he added that; “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 installments. But that is all I know about the skulls. Ifa has traveled to Lagos. I don’t know where he lives in Lagos.”

But Salami who claimed to have discovered the corpses denied any wrongdoing saying he found the bodies of the victims on his farmland.

“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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