At the headquarters of Oyo State Police Command yesterday, Nigerians were stunned into silence as a 50-year old suspect, Kamoru Oladele, narrated how he sells human parts for between N25,000 and N30,000, adding that his gang has human abattoirs in Oyo and Osun states. 

 

Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, who narrated how the law caught up with the suspects, said the breakthrough was made by the special anti-kidnapping squad of the Command after receiving intelligence report on the activities of the suspects, adding that the suspects had succeeded in giving their victims erroneous impression that they could make them rich through rituals. 

 

The suspect however confessed to correspondents;

 

"I am a herbalist and I do fortune charms for people. I am not the one that usually sells human parts. I buy from some people. This is my first time of engaging in this kind of business. I usually buy the human skull for N10,000 and sell it for N25,000 for those that come for fortune charms."

 

When police searched his house, they alleged that one smoked human skull was recovered, adding that the suspect used coded words for different human parts. Oladele said the words can only be decoded by their initiates, adding that 'a human head that sells for N30,000 is called agbon (coconut).'

 

He also disclosed that their trade was carried out in their human abattoirs located at Amuloko and Kuta villages in Oyo and Osun states, respectively.