Police from the Oyo State Police Command has arrested three
persons with two human skulls at a hideout in Ogbomoso. The suspects are, Ramoni
Akeem, 41, Azeez Ojelade, 36, and Salimon Salami, 40.
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.
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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