The Oyo State Police Command has apprehended a 45-year-old suspected ritualist, Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan.
Kolawole was paraded at the Command Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan alongside nine other suspects arrested for various crimes at different locations.
Other items found in Kolawole’s possession include fresh human hands and one HP Laptop.
The suspect, according to the police was arrested at Ogbere-ti-o-ya in Ona Ara local government area.
Speaking with journalists, the suspect confessed to the crime, saying 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.
He said: “I have one wife and two children and things are very hard for me in taking good care of them, I met one Waheed, who is also an Islamic cleric at a Maolud, we discuss it and he told me that he knew how to do money ritual 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 use to attend to people who need spiritual assistance.”
“The police came to search my office on the day Waheed gave me the fresh head and two hands.”
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, 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, dual faced axe, one HP Laptop, one human head, two human hands and seventeen wraps of weed and fifty-three wraps of Colorado.
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