Police nabs 33-yr-old tailor with three human skulls

A 33-year-old tailor identified as Mr. Suleiman Ajenifuja is now cooling his heels in police net after he was nabbed by eagle eyed security operatives in Illorin, Kwara State for being in possession of three human skulls.

The suspect who revealed that he combines tailoring with street sweeping said he was taking the skulls to an Islamic cleric for spiritual purposes especially to attract customers to his shop.

Ajenufuja who divulged that a friend of his connected him with the Islamic cleric said; “I am a tailor, but I also work with the Lagos State Government as a street sweeper from 11pm to 2am. While I was working one night, I saw a bag containing these things (the skulls). I initially wanted to drop the bag, but someone told me that the skulls could be used for some things.

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“I contacted one of the boys that we usually talk together, named Saheed, and he gave me the Alfa’s phone number. When I called the Alfa, he told me to come to Ilorin. I have never been to Ilorin before, but he asked me to alight at a particular place where he would come to pick me.

“He had earlier asked me what I wanted to do with the items and I told him that I wanted what would bring more people to my shop.”

According to Mr, Ado Lawan, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr, Ado Lawan, the suspect was arrested on March 26 by operatives of the Federal Highway Patrol Team of the command.

The CP said Ajenifuja was in a commercial vehicle conveying seven passengers en route to Ilorin from Lagos when their bus was stopped for a search.

During the search, three skulls wrapped in a sack belonging to Ajenifuja were discovered by the Highway Patrol Team.

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