26-year-old, Franklin Akinyosuyi, arrested with a human head and other fetish items, has disclosed that low patronage in his business caused him to get involved in the ritual.
Operatives of the Nigeria Police’s Anti-Crime section attached to Funmbi-Fagun Police Station in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State arrested the suspect on August 6 following a report.
The landlord of the suspect caught him while he was trying to dispose of the human head in the backyard of their residence in Elewuro and alerted the Police.
While he was paraded at the Command Headquarters over the weekend, he said,“I am a photographer and I own a boutique as well. It was last year that my uncle took me to a herbalist.
“I explained to him that my business wasn’t moving well, so he asked me to pay N200,000 to make a concoction for me which I paid within three weeks.
“After he was done, he called me to come to pick it and that was last year November. He directed that I should be bathing with the human head every Thursday at exactly 1 am.
” I used it for a month but didn’t see any difference in my business. So, I had to call the herbalist and told him to refund my money.
“I also asked him to come and pick up the human head as well but he refused to come and pick it up, but he had started refunding my money because he already sent me N20,000.
” So, on that faithful day, I decided to go and throw it away, so I dropped it in my backyard. Unfortunately, I went out and before I could return, my landlord’s children saw it, informed their father and they ultimately called the police.
“After we were arrested, the herbalist claimed that he paid someone to get the human head.”
The State Police Spokesperson, SP Oluwafunmilayo Odunlami, said that further investigation led to the arrest of one Oyegoke Dare, an evangelist, who gave the skull and other fetish materials to the suspect.
The Police also arrested an herbalist, identified as Oyelade Sarafa, who confessed to having helped in procuring the skull from one Asekun (a vigilante) in Ikirun.
The PPRO added that two other suspects linked to the case are currently at large.
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