Two herbalists, Mustapha Murtala and Sunday Oluyeba have been
apprehended by the police for alleged involvement in the sales and
supply of human skulls in Sagamu.
Arrested along side the duo is
Mrs Adenike Olarewaju, a 34 year old mother of two whose husband was
alleged to be a supplier of the human parts.
Report says two human skulls suspected to have been procured from a graveyard were recovered from the suspects.
According to Police sources, their arrest came sequel to an
intelligence report received by the Lagos State Police Command on
activities of human parts dealers, which prompted the Commander of SARS,
Abba Kyari, to order for a manhunt that resulted in the arrest of the
three suspects, with others still at large in Ojumerin area of Sagamu,
Ogun State.
In the course of interrogation, 42-year-old Murtala
said he got involved in the business two years ago following an offer of
N30,000 for a human skull.
According to the father of one, “I am a
herbalist from Sagamu, Ogun State. I was introduced to human parts
business by one Sunday Oluyeba I knew through my friends, Olanipekun and
Kazim, three years ago.
“My friends asked me to get native birds
called eyeoshi and eyeoke, and I succeeded in getting them. They later
came and requested a human head with an offer of N30,000. They said they
wanted to use it to prepare concoction for a pregnant woman in labour.
“They told me they also use human parts to prepare concoction for
women who have difficulty in getting pregnant. What they do is to grind
the human skull, mix it with water and give to the woman to drink. Such
concoction cleanses the stomach, after which she would become pregnant.
“Sunday
brought the human head and I paid him N15,000 for it. This is the
second time I am buying a human skull from him. I do not know where he
got them from.
“I was going about my herbal business when a man
came and demanded human skull. As I handed the nylon where I kept it to
him, some men I later discovered to be policemen swooped on me. I have
never killed anyone in my life.”
Subsequently, he was made to put a
call across to his colleague in crime, Oluyeba, demanding a human head.
Oluleba could not attend to the supply, however, he instructed one of
his herbalist friends,Baba Beji, to go for the supply. He was arrested
when he got there.
His statement led the police to another suspect
in Sagamu. The suspect, Juwon Olarewaju, another herbalist, purportedly
fled on sighting the policemen but his wife was arrested instead.
Mrs Olarewaju, in her statement to operatives, expressed shock over the sales of human parts by her husband.
“I
have been married to Juwon for five years and we have two children. My
husband is a herbalist but I didn’t know he was dealing in human parts. I
was arrested in my house at about 2am over the weekend. I swear, I
didn’t know anything about all these. I was arrested because my husband
whom they came to arrest ran away. These people implicated my husband in
the matter; they said my husband supplied them with a human head.” She
said
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