Police parade ritualists, legislator’s killer

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan

Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday, at Eleyele, Ibadan, paraded three ritualists caught with human parts including two fresh heads and hands with offensive odour.

The ritualists: Alfa Babatunde Kareem, 37, Taofeek Bello, 22, and Adebayo Yusuf, 23 claimed that they got the human parts at a cemetery in Ogbomosho explaining that they went to a cemetery, exhumed two bodies and cut the needed parts for money rituals.

Speaking to the newsmen, the ritualists admitted that they committed the crime saying, “We went to Isale General at Ogbomoso to exhume the bodies around 8pm. When we were coming, two boys accosted us on the road and demanded to know what was in our bag that was bringing offensive odour.

“We tried our best to deceive them but they were insistent. They said they will not allow us to go until we allow them to see what was in our bag. Eventually, they got the bag from us and opened it. On seeing the human parts, they raised the alarm and that was how we were arrested”.

The suspects who claimed that was the first time they would be involved in such an act further said, “We wanted to use the parts for money rituals. If we had succeeded in taking them to our place, we would have dried and burnt them”.

Paraded with the ritualists was Kola Arobiole alias ‘Judgement,’ who killed a former member of the House of Assembly, Mr Gideon Aremu in front of his house last year.

Narrating how his gang killed the late legislator, Arobiole said, “It was Alaso Toiheeb who initiated the idea. We trailed the honourable to his house and as he tried to come out of his car, we pointed guns at him. The legislator initially surrendered but later got surprised to see his neighbour with us.

“He was very annoyed and he held his neigbour by the shirt and said, “even you”. Because we did not want him to raise any alarm or call police, we collected his phone and after that I shot him. I shot him because we thought that if we allowed him to live, he will expose us and we do not want to be exposed and arrested. Besides, he struggled with us”.

Speaking, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Odude said that all the suspects would soon be arraigned in the court of law.

Speaking, specifically on Arobiole who killed the state former lawmaker, Odude said, “The suspect had been on the wanted list of the police command since last year. After killing the legislator, he ran away to his hometown in Ekiti. He was in Ekiti State when he led another notorious armed robbery suspects for an operation but was eventually arrested”.