The Osun State Police Command on Tuesday said its operatives have arrested a suspected ritualists named Alfa Mutiu Olarewaju and his accomplices through a stop and search.
A statement by the command spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola at the Police Headquarters, said the suspect Olarewaju was caught around Ifon-Osun, along Ogbomosho road.
Giving further details of how the suspect were arrested, Opalola said “on the 16th of January, 2023 about 1:30pm, a red unregistered golf car coming from Ogbomosho with about five occupants and were requested to alight from the car for searching. The operatives were searching the car, a bag of garri belonging to Olarewaju was searched and it was discovered that seven polythene bags containing fresh flesh suspected to be human parts were hided inside the garri”.
SP Opalola stated further that the police operatives extended their investigation to Ilogbo area Ogbomosho in Oyo state and arrested Olarewaju’s supplier Alfa Adebowale Abdulsalam with another fresh flesh suspected to be human parts packed in a container.
In the course of interrogation, the suspect, Olarewaju confessed that he knew Abdulsalam at Ifon-Osun when he visited one of his relatives at Ifon-Osun and since then they have been partnering in crime.
“Since then, I’ve been buying human parts from Alfa Adebowale in Ogbomosho, at the amount ranging from #5000 to #2000 depending on the part, size and quantity requested from my clients” Olarewaju added.
The second suspect, Abdulsalam also led the police investigation team to Janta area in Ifon-Osun where he is living and arrested another of his accomplice who happened to be his buyer.
Abdulsalam also confessed that he has been buying the parts from one Alayo in Ogbomosho who is at large, a cemetery (graveyard) guard in one of the cemeteries in Ogbomosho.
“Suspects have been charged to court for prosecution” SP Opalola concluded.
