A native doctor and his accomplices have been arrested for allegedly attempting to use an apprentice for rituals in Ogun State.
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The leader of the herbalists, Ganiyu Idowu, provided his, Ganiyu Akanni, 32, who had just resumed work with him as an apprentice. The cartel had allegedly planned to use a man, Baba Yenu, for the money making rituals, but decided to use Akanni when all efforts to abduct Yenu, failed.
And since all arrangements had been concluded to ensure that the ritual, for which they needed to spill human blood did not fail, Idowu and his two other accomplices, including a Muslim cleric, through persuasion, lured Akanni, the apprentice, out.
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While making attempts to slaughter Akanni, the trio of Ganiyu Idowu, Alfa Bamigbola Edun, 62 and Matthew Odunewu, 53, orchestrators of the planned, had a polythene bag each on them, with which they planned to take their respective shares of Akanni’s body parts after killing him.
The cartel had taken their victim to Ogun river bank at Oriyanrin in Abeokuta and asked him to dig a certain portion of the ground.
Still unsuspicious of the men’s motive, Akanni stooped to do as directed. Before he knew what was happening the suspects pinned him down, and were about slaughtering when policemen who were on an operation, saw what was happening shot into the air.
This singular action of the operatives sent them scampering but they could not go far before they were arrested.
Commissioner of Police ,Ogun state police Command , Ahmed Iliyasu , said, “Following an intelligence report received about the activities of some ritualists, who were planning to kill their victim for ritual at Oriyanrin area of Abeokuta, the DPO of Adigbe Division, whose jurisdiction the incident was about to occur, was directed to work hand in hand with FSARS operatives in order to save the life of the innocent victim and bring the culprits to justice.
“In compliance with my directive, operatives from the two formations embarked on 24-hours surveillance of the area. Their efforts paid off on August 30, 2018, at about 11:00 pm when four men were sighted coming to the river bank with three of them holding polythene bags.
“On getting to the river bank, the three men grabbed the fourth person who was the youngest of them, laid him on the ground and were about to slaughter him like a sacrificial ram when the operatives swooped on them and got them arrested.
“On interrogation, they confessed that the polythene bags with them were to be used to collect their respective shares of the victim’s body parts after killing him”, the CP said.
