A woman who is an Osun priestess, a community chief, an Ifa priest, an Islamic cleric, and a trado-medicine practitioner alongside five others have been arrested for alleged organ harvesting.
The suspects, according to the Lagos State Police Command specialised in killing people and harvesting body parts for sale in various states.
The spokesperson of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, while confirming the arrest on Friday, explained that the suspects who operate in one of the extreme divisions of Lagos were arrested through intelligence reports from the public.
He noted that the leader of the gang, a 33-year-old man, Ademola Akinlosotu, confessed initially that he was exhuming corpses from cemeteries and selling their parts to ritualists but later graduated to killing and selling human parts to customers on demand.
Akinlosotu while speaking on his antecedents, said he moved from killing people to harvesting parts because his clients requested fresh parts rather than dead body parts.
Akinlosotu said ”While I and some members of the gang would do the killings,” he would supply the parts to a 52-year-old man, Ahmed Wahab, aka Alfa Bororo, who operated from Badagry in Lagos State and Ogun State, to supply his clients.
The suspect said a fresh human head is sold at N45,000 or N50,000 while a dried human head sells between N30,000 and N35,000; heart for N70,000 and hands for N50,000.
Akinlosotu speaking further admitted to killing two persons, which included a friend he met through social media, before he was arrested.
He said before they killed anyone, the herbalist would be contacted to consult an oracle to determine whether the killing would be successful or would bring trouble.
The suspect alleged that a traditional ruler in Badagry requested him to kill his son because he was giving him problems.
He also said that the day they were to carry out the killing was when a friend he met online visited him, and he was killed.
Akinlosotu said that all he harvests, when he kills, is the person’s head, the heart, and the hands.
Exhibits of different human parts were recovered from the suspects, according to Hundeyin.
He said the police will continue the trail of other suspects.
The command said that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed.
Kazeem Badmus is a graduate of Mass Communication with years of experience. A professional in journalism and media writing, Kazeem prioritses accuracy and factual reportage of issues. He is also a dexterous finder of the truth with conscious delivery of unbiased and development oriented stories.
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