The police have ordered its operatives to start raiding herbalists’ homes in Lagos and Ogun states. The directive was a sequel to complaints of human rituals being perpetrated in the states.
Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2, Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, Lawal Shehu, yesterday said he has ordered the continuous raiding of herbalists’ homes in Lagos and Ogun states following the upsurge in ritual motivated killings.
The AIG said that some herbalists were aiding the activities of ritualists, adding that herbalists work for a hand in gloves with the wicked people who use human beings for rituals. He gave this directive against the backdrop of the arrest of five persons, who he described as notorious ritualists that specialised in exhuming dead bodies from graves and selling the body parts to people who demanded them.
He said that the zone received information on December 3, 2018, that Adeola, a security guard attached to Mushin cemetery, and Oke were found in Abeokuta with human parts.
“During their confessional statement, the suspects said that they were human parts dealers who had been in the business for a very long time. Detectives from the Zonal Intervention Squad were detailed to investigate the matter,” he said.
The AIG said the suspects led police detectives from the zone to arrest three other members of the gang. He said that items recovered from the suspects were dried human jaw and dried human scalp.
In his statement to the police, one of the suspects, Nnacheta, 20, who hails from Aguleri in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State, said he consulted two Abeokuta, Ogun State-based Islamic clerics, Badmos and Shodaolu, to perform a money-making ritual for him with human parts and N250,000.
Nnacheta said that he had asked the clerics to make him prosperous in his gambling business, as he had no parents. He said the clerics were preparing the concoction when the police arrested him and the herbalists.
