On Wednesday, December 7, men from the Ogun State Police command discovered a shallow grave at Mile 6 Ajebo in the state capital of Abeokuta. The grave belonged to 18-year-old Quadri Salami, a 100-level student at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, who was killed for ritualistic purposes.
According to a statement from the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, the deceased’s father reported his son missing at Kemta Police Station on November 8 and all attempts to find him had been unsuccessful.
She said the deceased’s decomposing body parts was traced to the shallow grave after a tracking clue beamed at one of the suspects, Akeem Usman who was arrested in possession with the victim’s phone.
Odutola said the suspect implicated one Ifadowo Niyi, and said that both of them committed the heinous crime by slaughtering the victim (Quadri)and dismembered his vital parts for ritual purposes. She said Ifadowo went away with Quadri’s head, and his two wrists, and paid the sum of one hundred thousand Naira into Akeem Usman’s account as proceeds from the sale of the human body parts.
“The suspects thereafter continued to sell the victim’s other body parts on demand to Internet fraudsters and buried the heart, two legs, and flesh inside a plastic rubber for rituals and used the remaining parts for ‘Awure'(luck charm) a crime against humanity. Among their confessional statement, the duo admitted that they have used four other human heads for money rituals known as “Osole” the statement read
The police spokesperson added that the suspects are now in Eleweran at SCID for continuation of discreet investigations and will araigned in court afterwards.
