A 72-year-old man, Idris Ajao, who was arrested by Osun State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of fresh human skull, has said that he was contracted by a herbalist to get it for a fee of N10,000.
The human skull was suspected to have been exhumed from a public cemetery.
Parading the septuagenarian before newsmen last weekend, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olafimihan Adeoye said his men acted on a tip-off to arrest Ajao at Obatedo cemetery in Iwo.
According to him, “upon information received, a team of police detectives rushed to Obatedo Cemetery area in Iwo town where Idris Ajao, an indigene of Iwo, was caught with fresh human skull and was arrested with the exhibit.”
Adeoye said that during interrogation, the suspect confessed that one Tajudeen Jawesola, an herbalist residing on Hospital Road, Iwo, asked him to get him a human skull, with a promise to pay him N10,000 as his fee.
The police boss further explained that the herbalist who is still at large only told the suspect that he wanted o use it for his work.
Adeoye, however said that efforts were ongoing to apprehend the fleeing herbalist, adding that the suspect would soon be arraigned in court as soon as investigation into the matter is completed.
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