...Confess To Four Previous Acts
TWO suspected ritualists, arrested for killing and selling the body parts of a university undergraduate to ‘Yahoo boys’, for money-making rituals, have come up with a shocking revelation of how no fewer than four persons fell their victims.
The suspects, Akeem Usman and Ifadowo Niyi, Wednesday, 6 December, led a team of police Tactical Squad, including Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Alamutu Abiodun, to a shallow grave where some body parts of their latest victim was buried at Mile 6 in the Ajebo area of Abeokuta, the state capital, and the decomposing parts exhumed.
The victim, an 18-year-old 100-level student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Quadri Salami, was reported missing to the Kemta Police Division by his father.
According to the complaint lodged on 14 November, the teenager had been missing since 8 November even as all efforts to locate him proved abortive.
Luck ran out on the suspects with the tracking of the deceased boy’s phone to Akeem, who confessed to the crime and mentioned Ifadowo as his accomplice.
He further revealed how they both conspired to slaughter the hapless boy and dismembered his vital body parts for ritual purposes.
Investigations conducted by the Police detectives revealed that Ifadowo went away with the victim’s head and his two wrists, and paid the sum of One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000) into Akeem’s account as his own share of the proceeds from the sale of the parts.
“The suspects, thereafter, continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to internet fraudsters, and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for “Awure” a crime against humanity”, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed in a press statement.
According to Odutola, in their confessional statements, the duo admitted to having previously used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole“, adding that the suspects are currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) in continuation of discreet investigations and prosecution
The PPRO further said that CP Alamutu remained committed to ensuring that justice was served and would continue to investigate further, to bring all perpetrators to face the full extent of the law.
“Such criminal involvement endangers innocent lives, urging parents to collectively work together with the police in the state, by giving volunteer information to eradicate such nefarious practices”, Alamutu said.
Eighteen-Eleven Media