Man arrested with 3
human skulls
By Ngozi Uwujare, Ibadan
Thursday, April
3, 2008
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of the arrested ritualists
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The Ogun State police command has arrested a 40-year-old
man and his friend with three human skulls. The suspect, Saheed
Azeez, was arrested by policemen during a stop-and-search
in the Ojo area of Ibadan.
According to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG),
Udom Ekpoudom, the suspect, “confessed that he was contracted
by one Dauda Gbolagade, to bring three human skulls. He told
us that he was paid N9,000 to do the job.”
The police boss, who decried the alarming rate of people trading
in human parts, warned that the police would deal decisively
with anyone caught with human parts.
However, when Daily Sun spoke with Saheed Azeez, he corroborated
what the police boss said: “Really, I don’t know
what Dauda wants to do with human skulls, but he just paid
me N3,000 each for the three skulls.”
On where he got the human skulls, he claimed he got them from
a cemetery, adding: “I did not kill anyone. I just got
them from a burial ground. I swear, I did not kill them.”
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