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Police apprehend suspected ritualist selling human parts in Ibadan

Police apprehend suspected ritualist selling human parts in Ibadan

Operatives of the Oyo Police Command have apprehended a suspect ritualist, Muhammad Adekunle for allegedly killing and selling human parts in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Police said the suspect sometime in January 2024 together with Lukman, Olobe, and Ifa, all now at large conspired to kill people for a money ritual.

Speaking while parading the suspect at the Command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Ayodele Sonubi, said the suspect and others now at large in April 2024 lured one Adekola Sodiq at Moniya where they severed his head and legs which were sold to one Obaleye Sanmi and one Ismail Olalekan.

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Sonubi said the suspect further confessed that on 7th August 2024, he and others now at large stabbed one Malik Kareem to death and severed his head and legs which was sold to one Rashidat Akanji at Oje Market for the sum of Seventy Thousand Naira (N70,000.00).

“Meanwhile on 11th August 2024 at about 0630hrs, execution of search warrant was conducted in the houses and premises of the suspects where a fresh flesh was recovered and which he voluntarily confessed to be the parts of the said Malik Kareem whom they killed on 7th August, 2024.

Police apprehend suspected ritualist selling human parts in Ibadan

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