The Oyo State Police command, at the weekend, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist, Hassan Kolawole, with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital.
Kolawole was paraded at the command’s headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan.
He was paraded by the state commissioner of police, Adebola Hamzat, through the police public relations officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso.
He said the suspected ritualist was arrested at Ogbere-ti-o-ya in Ona Ara Local Government Area of the state.
He stated that the alleged ritualist was apprehended in Ogbere-ti-o-ya, in the state’s Ona Ara Local Government Area.
Speaking to journalists, the suspect admitted to the crime, explaining that the fresh human head and two hands found in his possession were for ritual purposes due to financial difficulties he was experiencing.
“I have one wife and two children, and it is very hard for me to take good care of them. I met one Waheed, who is also an Islamic cleric, at a Maolud. We discussed it, and he told me that he knew how to do money rituals that would require the use of human parts.
“I told him that I didn’t know how to get the human parts, and he promised to get them for me. He later brought the human parts to me at Amunloko, where we met early in the morning, and I kept them in my office, where I used to attend to people who needed spiritual assistance.
“The police came to search my office on the day Waheed gave me the fresh head and two hands. The person is now at large,” he said.
