A 49-year-old man, Ganiyu Shina, of 4, Oguji Street, Obantoko, Abeokuta was on Thursday arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for bathing with blood at a community river in Kotopo area of Odeda Local Government Area of the state.
This was made known by the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement he issued on Thursday.
Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested when members of the community sighted him at the river bank, where he parked his Nissan commercial vehicle, came out with local sponge and a container filled with blood and started bathing with it.
He said: “Immediately he discovered that some people were watching him, he took to his heels, but was chased and apprehended by members of the community.”
The Police Public Relations Officer said a call was made to the police at Aregbe Divisional Police Headquarters by a member of the community, with the Divisional Police Officer, SP Bunmi Asogbon, quickly leaving a patrol team to the scene, from where Shina was brought to the station.
He added: “On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have a spiritual problem, and that a herbalist instructed him to perform the ritual.
“He claimed further that the blood in his possession is not human blood, but that of a cow.”
Meanwhile, the Command’s Commissioner, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the remaining blood should be taken for laboratory analysis to ascertain whether it is human blood or not.
The CP also praised members of the community for not taking the laws into their hands.
Bankole therefore assured them that the suspect will be properly investigated.
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