Police Nab Suspected Ritualist With Eight Human Skulls In Ondo
- Each Head Priced At N30,000
A suspected ritualist, Yusuf Adinohi, in possession of eight human skulls, has been arrested by operatives of Ondo State Police Command, at Isua Akoko, in the Akoko South-East LGA.
Mr Adnohi, 37, was arrested at one of the checkpoints between the Isua and Epinmi in a Nissan car en route from Akure to Osogbo.
The suspect was said to have been in the vehicle with four other passengers when the personnel attached to the Police Safer Highway Patrol intercepted them on the road.
A security source who confirmed Mr. Adinohiโs arrest said the suspect had claimed he was travelling from Okene in Kogi to Osogbo, in Osun State, to deliver the human skulls to a herbalist.
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The source revealed that the arrested suspect had already concealed the skulls inside a sack of garri alongside charms before he was nabbed.
Police Commissioner, Abayomi Oladipo, confirmed the suspectโs arrest in a statement.
โUpon interrogation, Adenoyin, 37, confessed to being the owner of the skulls and explained that he was delivering them to an herbalist named Opeifa in the Oke-Onitea area of Osogbo.
โHe equally mentioned other customers he usually supplies human skulls to include Almonso who lives at Oke-Onitea, Osogbo, Alfaa Agba who lives at Oke Onitea and also Oshoyemi who resides around the Oja Oba area.
โThe suspect further confessed that the human skulls were usually handed over to him by one, Imaila living at Oboroke in Okene, and that each head is being sold for between thirty thousand Naira (N30,000) and thirty-five thousand (N35,000),โ he said.
The police chief, however, added that the suspect would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) unit in Akure with his case file for further investigations.
