'If we had taken pap with human parts at night, spirits would have brought us money’ - Suspected ritualists confess

The Oyo State Police Command has paraded three suspected ritualists in possession of two fresh human heads and legs.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Odude, during the parade, disclosed that the suspects were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Command on November 11, following a tip-off by a member of the public.

Odude added that the suspects confessed to have severed the body parts from corpses at a Muslim cemetery, in Isale General Area of Ogbomoso. 

The suspects are Alfa Kareem, 37; Bello, 22, and Adebayo Yusuf.  They told Police that the quest to become extremely rich quickly prompted them to get the human parts for money rituals. 

Speaking with Vanguard NG, one of the suspects, Kareem, disclosed that it was his first attempt at using human parts for money rituals. 

The second suspect, Bello, said: “We went to Isale General at Ogbomoso to exhume the bodies at about 8p.m. On our way back, two inquisitive boys, who accosted us on the road, demanded to know where the offensive odour was from. “We tried to deceive them, but they were insistent. So we had to run. They caught Kareem before the Police arrested us at our homes.” 

Asked what they intended to do with the human parts, Taofeek said: 

“We wanted to use the parts for money rituals. If we had succeeded in taking them to our place, we would have dried and burnt them. “After burning the parts, we will grind same to powdery substance and mix some of it with soap to take our bath in the morning and to take pap at night. After we have done this, some weird creatures, who we generally call spirits, will bring the money to us— usually at night.” 

The Police Command also paraded a runaway killer of a member of Oyo State House of Assembly, Gideon Aremu, representing Oorelope Constituency, July last year. 

According to the commissioner, he said the suspect, who escaped to Ekiti, his country home, shortly after committing the act, had been on the Police wanted list. 

In his words:  “Nemesis caught up with the suspect when he was arrested in his criminal hideout after sneaking into the state and led another robbery gang to snatch a motorcycle from its owner at Egbeda area of the state.” 

The suspect, Arobiole, popularly known as Judgment, admitted to the crime and confessed and said that he and two of his gang members pulled the trigger on him.

Narrating how he committed the crime with two others, Judgment said: 

“It was Toiheeb, who initiated the idea. The lawmaker was described as a very generous man, who always gave people in the neighbourhood money. “We trailed him to his house and as he tried to alight from the car, we pointed guns at him. The lawmaker was surprised to see his neighbour among us. He held him by the shirt and said ‘Even you.’ “We collected his phone then I shot him because he was struggling with us. We thought since he knew one of us, he would expose us sooner or later. It was after we killed him that we knew he was a very important person in Oyo