Three persons in possession of two human skulls have been arrested at a
hideout in Ogbomoso by policemen from the Oyo State Police Command.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.
Ramoni Akeem, 41, Azeez Ojelade, 36, and Salimon Salami, 40, were the
suspects arrested by the police.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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