By Halimah Olamide
The Ogun state police command on Wednesday disclosed its operatives have arrested a man who is a member of a ritual syndicate that kidnapped and killed a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife.
NPO Reports that the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, had led his men to a shallow grave in an area of the state capital on Wednesday after tracking signal traced the phone of the victim of Quadri Salami, the OAU student to one Akeem Usman.
A statement by the police command in Ogun explained that father of the 18 year old victim had earlier reported his son was missing at the Kemta Police Division.
“The Commissioner of Police CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha made a significant breakthrough today the 6th of December 2023 when he personally led a team of Tactical Squad to Mile 6 in Ajemo area of Abeokuta to a shallow grave to exhume the decomposing body parts of the deceased after a tracking clue beamed at one AKEEM Usman “m” who was arrested in possession with the victims phone.
He implicated one Ifadowo Niyi “m” that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering the victim one Quadri and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes,” the statement said The statement went further by saying that Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrist, and paid the sum of one hundred thousand Naira into AKEEM Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts.
“The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to internet fraudsters and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for ritual and used the remaining parts for ‘Awure’ a crime against humanity.
“Amongst their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they have used four other human heads for money ritual known as “Osole”.
“The suspects are now in the Police headquarters, Eleweran at the SCID for continuation of discreet investigation and will definitely be prosecuted. “