cleric (Alfa), a pastor, and two others, who were allegedly caught
with suspected human parts in the Ayegun area of Ibadan.
The State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said Alfa, Sulaiman
Hamed, 35, participated in the Fidau prayers for a dead man but later
contracted two men to exhume the corpse because he needed the body
parts for money ritual.
According to Odude, the two accomplices – Olapade Saheed, 32, and
Olatunji Abiodun, 26 – were later caught with the deceased's head and
other body parts, leading to the arrest of Hamed and Tope Akinyele,
45, who claimed to be the pastor of a church in Ojagbo, in the Oranyan
area of Ibadan.
Hamed said he usually paid N2,500 for human flesh which he used in
making money charm for his clients.
He said: "Someone introduced Saheed and Abiodun to me. I gave them
N2,500 to help me find human flesh. We all met at Ayegun junction,
Ibadan. Around 10pm, I took them to a grave where a body that was
brought from Warri, Delta State, was buried.
"I took part in the prayers for the deceased before he was buried. I
left them (Saheed and Abiodun) there, but they refused to let me go.
They said they wanted to sleep in my house that night. I got them a
place close to my house.
"In the early hours of the second day, they came to me with a
cellophane bag. I did not check what was inside, but I hanged it on
the wall of my house. I was on my way to my office in Ile-Tuntun when
I saw them in the midst of a crowd with a human head.
"I use human flesh to make money ritual for people and I pay N2,500
for the flesh. In this case, the charm was for myself. I did not ask
them to cut off the head and it was not in my possession when the
police came."
In his statement, Saheed said Alfa paid them N1,500 to do the job and
that he took them to the grave of the deceased.
"Alfa called us for a job at Ayegun. When we got there, he showed us a
grave three houses away from his house. After we finished the job (of
exhuming and cutting off body parts), he took what he needed from the
remains of the dead man and asked us to dispose of the rest.
"We left early in the morning. But on our way, a local vigilance group
stopped us and asked what was in the bag we carried. They beat us up
after realising that there was a human head and other body parts in
the bag. The police later came to arrest us," he said.
The commissioner, however, said the police would continue to rid the
state of criminals.
Odude noted that the suspects would be charged to court at the end of
investigation.
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