How, Man, 76, Was Beheaded & Head Sold For N4000 For Rituals

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Facts have emerged how a 76-year-old man, Adeniyi Adebisi Samuel, was beheaded and his severed head sold for N4000 for ritual purposes.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, where the suspected ritual killers were arrested and paraded at the Amotekun headquarters, Dandaru, Ibadan, on Tuesday.

This was disclosed by the Deputy Commandant of Amotekun in the state, Mr. Akinro Kazeem, who said the suspects were arrested following intelligence reports from the members of the public.

Mr. Akinro, who gave the names of the suspects as; Ismail Muraina, Abdlerasheed Olanrewaju and Olalekan Akande, explained that one of the suspects, Ismail Muraina, confessed that he charmed the victim because he saw him as unstable.

He noted that the suspects confessed that they sold human heads based on the size and amount available in the hand on their customers.

According to him, the suspects specialised in selling human part to the ritualists, who are in need of human parts, between N4,000 and N100,000.

He urged members of the public to continue partnering with the Police and other security agencies to reveal activities of the criminals in their respective communities.

One of the daughters of the victim, Mrs. Olaosun Olufunke, said her father called her on Sunday morning that Ismail Muraina asked him to meet him to get some money his younger brother had sent and that was the last time he heard about him.

“The man is lying. My dad told me on Sunday morning that Muraina asked him to come and get money for my younger brother and that was the only thing we heard last from him,” she lamented.