A
native doctor and suspected ritual killer was arrested by the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command. Olasunkanmi Owolabi, a 43-year-old native of Oyo town, said
that he grinds human heads into powder as charm for ladies who are
looking for choice husbands and big contracts.
he added that the
concoction is also used as cure for stubborn sores, mental illness,
sickle cell anaemia and epilepsy. He also said had planned to establish a
specialist native hospital if government gave him the approval.
Arrested with Owolabi were his two co-travellers, Clement Omodijie
and Usman Saliu a.k.a. Alfa. A police source said the three had been
charged with unlawful possession of human parts.Owolabi (43), who was arrested on June 22 this year, was said to have
requested a human head from Omodijie, saying that he needed the skull
to prepare a medicine for his patients. Omodijie obliged Owolabi by
exhuming a corpse from one of the graves in the cemetery where he worked
and delivering the head to Owolabi.
Upon a tip-off from a member of the public, the Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, was said to have directed the
officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police, to
fish out the ritual killers.
Source: informationng.com