Police Arrest Two Men With Woman’s Head To Be Used For Money Rituals

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The Police in Ogun State have arrested a 32-year old citizen of the Benin Republic, Monday Karezu, who was allegedly caught with a woman’s head barely few days he reportedly killed his 9-month old daughter and used her head for failed money rituals.

 P.M.EXPRESS reports that Karezu was arrested by Police operatives with another suspect, Anagonou Kamelan, 44, for allegedly being in possession of a human head at the native doctor’s house.

This was confirmed by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who said they were in custody undergoing interrogation.

The Police spokesman, Oyeyemi, said the two suspects, Anagonou Kamelan, 44, and Monday Karezu, 32, were arrested on 3rd November, 2021, at a native doctor’s house, where they intended to use the human head.

“Police operatives received information that some men were going to a herbalist’s house to use a human head for a money-making ritual.”
“Upon the information, the DSP Nurudeen Gafar led team swiftly moved to the area, where the herbalist’s house was situated and laid ambush there.”

The Police said about two hours after laying an ambush, the two suspects arrived on a motorcycle with a bag containing the human head, and they were arrested.
On interrogation, Monday Karezu, a national of Benin Republic, informed the Police that he got the head from a place known as Ijale papa. This made the Policemen to follow him to the place only to discover that he was lying.

Further investigation revealed that the suspect, Monday Karezu, is a resident of Sabo area of Abeokuta and that the human head with him was that of a woman, who died three months ago during childbirth and was buried not too far from his house.

The Police further said they discovered that the suspect had one time killed his nine months old daughter and used her head for the same purpose but did not succeed.

“He had also exhumed another corpse, removed the head and used it for money-making ritual but failed. The latest one that landed them in trouble was introduced to him by Anagonou Kamalen, a Togolese, who informed him that he knows a herbalist, who can do an original money-making ritual for him with a human head, hence, he exhumed the corpse of the woman buried not too far to his house, cut off the head and in the company of his accomplice, took it to the herbalist’s house, where they were apprehended before delivering it,” the Police stated.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed an investigation into the past activities of the suspects with the view to charging them to Court as soon as the investigation is concluded.