A man identified as Muyideen Raimi has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for exhuming and cutting off the head of his late cousin, Sulaiman Aromokun, News About Nigeria reports.
Raimi’s arrest was made public by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police while parading the suspect on Friday.
According to the police, Raimi, who exhumed his cousin’s corpse from the Aromokun compound in Isale Ijebu, Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, committed the act with an accomplice who is now at large.
The Commissioner said, “The police have arrested Muyideen Raimi for exhuming and decapitating his late cousin, Sulaiman Aromokun, who was buried at the Aromokun compound in Isale Ijebu, Ibadan.”
He also revealed that, upon interrogation, the suspect revealed that their intention was to use the skull for money ritual.
The police also noted that an investigation is still ongoing on the case and that further developments will be communicated.
Similarly, the Oyo State Police Command also paraded a ritualist, Muhammad Adekunle for allegedly killing and selling human parts in Ibadan.
According to the police, Adekunle, along with three others who are now at large, conspired to kill people for ritual purposes in January 2024.
While presenting the suspects, the police revealed that in April 2024, Adekunle and his accomplices lured Adekola Sodiq to Moniya, where they severed his head and legs, which were sold to Obaleye Sanmi and Ismail Olalekan.
The police also disclosed that further confessions by the suspects revealed that on August 7, 2024, Adekunle and his accomplices killed Malik Kareem, severed his head and legs, and sold them to Rashidat Akanji at Oje Market for N70,000.
The police said, “On August 11, 2024, at approximately 06:30 hrs, a search warrant was executed at the suspects’ premises, where fresh flesh was recovered.
Adekunle confessed that this flesh was part of Malik Kareem, whom they killed on August 7, 2024.
During the investigation, suspects Muniru Salawudeen, Rashidat Akanji, Ismail Olalekan, and Obaleye Sanmi were arrested. They confessed to buying various human parts for rituals from Adekunle Mohammed.
“On August 10, 2024, at about 00:15 hrs, Ayede reported an offensive odour emanating from a building owned by Muhammad Adekunle, who is not usually resident there but visits at odd hours. Operatives from Moniya Divisional Police Headquarters responded and discovered a dry well containing mutilated human remains. The remains of three unidentified bodies were removed to the State Hospital Morgue for preservation and autopsy. Photographs were also taken,” the commissioner added.
