How Police Arrested Man Who Killed OAU Student For Ritual Purposes In Ogun

How Police Arrested Man Who Killed OAU Student For Ritual Purposes In Ogun

  • Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have exhumed the decomposing body of a 100-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Quadri Salami
  • The OAU student was killed and buried in a shallow grave by two suspected ritualists in Abeokuta, the state capital
  • The suspect, Akeem Usman, confessed that they dismembered the victim’s vital parts for ritual purposes

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Abeokuta, Ogun state - A suspected ritualist, Akeem Usman, has been arrested by the police for killing a 100-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Quadri Salami.

The Ogun state police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, said Usman was arrested with the victim’s phone.

Police arrest man who killed OAU student for ritual purposes in Ogun
Suspected ritualist arrested for killing OAU student Photo Credit:@OgunPoliceNG
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Odutola added that a team of Tactical Squad exhumed the decomposing body parts of the deceased from a shallow grave at Mile 6 in the Ajebo area of Abeokuta, Vanguard reported.

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Akeem confessed that he committed the crime with one Ifadowo Niyi by dismembering the victim’s vital parts for ritual purposes.

The suspect further stated that they had used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole”, according to The Punch.

The police PRO said:

“He added that Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrists, 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 rituals and used the remaining parts for “awure” a crime against humanity”.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a suspected ritualist, Hassan Kolawole was arrested with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

Legit.ng learnt Kolawole was arrested in Ona Ara local government area of the state.

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Legit.ng also reported that a group of individuals, including a pastor from the Christ Liberty Evangelism Church in Rosco, Iyana Iyesi, Ota, identified as Oyenekan Oluwaseyi, and three others, were apprehended in the Saje area of Abeokuta, Ogun state, for possession of a human skull.

Oluwaseyi and the three accomplices, identified as Ibrahim Agbowewe (30 years old), Suleiman Ogunbunmi (40 years old), and Gafari Akinsanya (57 years old), were taken into custody by the state's police command.

Source: Legit.ng

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Adekunle Dada (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Adekunle Dada is a journalist with over 5 years of working experience in the media. He has worked with PM News, The Sun and Within Nigeria before joining Legit.ng as a Politics/Current Affairs Editor. He holds a B.Sc. in Mass Communication from Lagos State University (LASU). He can be reached via adekunle.dada@corp.legit.ng.