On Friday, Oyo Police Command paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan.
Kolawole was paraded alongside nine other suspects who were arrested for various crimes at different locations at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, in the Ibadan Northwest local government area.
The suspect, as briefed by the Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, through the Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, was arrested on Monday, November 6, 2023.
Other items found in his possession include fresh human hands and one HP laptop.
The suspect, according to the police report, was arrested at Ogbere-ti-o-ya in the Ona Ara local government area.
In an interview with the newsmen, the suspect confessed to the crime, submitting that the fresh human head and two hands found in his possession were for ritual purposes as a result of the financial difficulty he was going through.
“I have one wife and two children, and it is very hard for me to take good care of them.
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“I met one Waheed, who is also an Islamic cleric, at a Maolud. We discussed it, and he told me that he knew how to do money rituals that would require the use of human parts.
“I told him that I didn’t know how to get the human parts, and he promised to get them for me.
“He later brought the human parts to me at Amuloko, where we met early in the morning, and I kept them in my office, where I used to attend to people who needed spiritual assistance.
“The police came to search my office on the day Waheed gave me the fresh head and two hands,” he said.
The suspect said that the person who gave him the human parts is now at large.
In a related development, nine suspects have been paraded for various crimes ranging from murder to kidnapping, cultism, and theft.
The suspects were arrested at different locations across the states.
Items recovered as exhibits, according to the police reports, include one Boxer Bajaj motorcycle with Reg Number NRK 754 QW, an improvised gun, a dual-faced axe, one HP laptop, one human head, two human hands, seventeen wraps of weed, and fifty-three wraps of Colorado.
