The Lagos State Police Command has smashed a human parts syndicate led by a pastor’s son and a traditional chief.
Already, seven persons, including a village head, son of a pastor, and a female herbalist (Iya Osun), a male herbalist have been arrested for allegedly killing and selling human parts for ritual purposes.
The gang was smashed by the Commissioner of Police Special Squad, led by CSP Kehinde Oni.
The gang had in the past lured unsuspecting members of the public to Lagos, where they killed them in cold blood and dismembered their bodies for sale.
The arrested persons were identified as: a son of a pastor, Ademola Akinlosotu,33, (alias Agesin), 25 years -old Sunday Padonu (aka Osetura); Oba Yusuf Lacalamita Adeshina (aka Iya Osun), an herbalist – Kamoli Aderibigbe, and 42-year-old Baale Dada Travi, the Community Chief in Akarakumo, in Badagry.
One of the victims of the criminal acts of the group was the son of one of the arrested gang members, Oba Yusuf, who accused the deceased of waywardness.
Another victim of the gang was a day-old -baby, who was given birth to at a trade- medical home, which belonged to one of the gang members, Kamoli Aderibigbe.
The son of a pastor, Agesin,-who was said to be one of the leaders of the gang confessed to the crime and revealed that they sold fresh human head for- between #45000 – #50 000 and dry human head between #30 000 and #35000.
He Confessed that, ” I got N248,000 as my share in the last job that I executed. I don’t send them to kill, but I buy human parts.
“I met Baale through Mama Osun. I have killed three people for them. I met Mama Osun when she was celebrating the Osun Festival, and she invited Baale, who brought his friend to ogun festival.
“We all started talking. I told them what I do for a living, and they said we could work together. They introduced me to Osetura, the Ifa Priest who offered his house for the killings.
“H e used to make divinations to know if there would be any problem when we kill anyone brought to the house.
” When I started, I do go to cemeteries to exhume corpses. People call me to place orders. The guy who introduced me to the business of exhuming bodies at cemeteries is dead.
” I was only exhuming bodies until Alfa (Wahab) asked me to start supplying fresh body parts. There was a time I went to Oke-Iho in Oyo State to lure a guy who was looking for a job to Lagos. I promised to get him a job on a farm.
“I called Balogun, a member of our gang, to inform him that I had a business. I also called Alhaji (Wahab) who had requested the head, heart, and hands. I knew the guy’s name as Lukmon when I asked him to register his name.”
On how the gang killed the job seeker, simply identified as Lukmon ,Agesisn, said ” On the day that he was killed, we sat down gisting, Osetura brought Kola (cola nut), split it into four, and threw the pieces on the floor away from where he was. I moved and picked one. Then, Lukmon moved to pick one too. That was when Osetura pulled his gun and shot him in the back, so we dismembered him and took his vital parts that we need “.
