Police arrest five for buying, selling human heads

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four men who specialise in buying and selling human heads.
The four suspects have been identified as Ajibade Rafiu, 30; Fatai Akiwowo, 30; Kazeem Sanni, 25; and Agboola Kolawole, 40.
They were actually five, but one of them, Jamiu Adeleke, 40, was said to have died in an accident.
Exhibits recovered from them included a palm suspected to be human hand and a bottle filled with darkish liquid content, suspected to have been prepared with grinded human heads.
One of the suspects, Sanni, confessed that two popular Alhaji(s) in Owode town in Ogun State had bought human heads from him.
He explained that these Alhaji(s) had even demanded for a full living human being for N40,000 and the human was being sought for before police burst the gang.
Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, revealed that the suspects used to get their human parts from various graveyards in Ogun State, adding that a head goes for N8,000, hands for N6,000 and private parts for N10,000.
Braide explained that on May 15, 2013, based on a tip-off, the officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Superintendent of Police, Abba Kyari, with his men, arrested Adeleke.
He was arrested at Owode Town, Ogun State, in possession of a human hand.
He was arrested just on the verge of attempting to sell it for N21,000.
According to Braide, Adeleke had revealed how he came about the human hand he was about to sell, adding that one Sanni Kazeem sold the hand to him for N6,000.
Braide continued: “When Sanni was arrested, he also confessed and further stated that he had supplied two human heads to a dealer named Akiwowo Fatai, who was equally arrested. Akiwowo Fatai confessed to have received the two heads and also four heads from another supplier named Agboola Kolawole.
“This same Kolawole was also arrested at Owode town. He told our men he cut the heads of his two late brothers and two sisters buried in private graves in their compound and sold each for N8,000. We finally arrested the final buyer, who also happened to be a receiver. He is Ajibade Rafiu, an herbalist. Detectives recovered a drink of grinded human heads, mixed with gin in a bottle from Ajibade.”
Braide further said that Akiwowo, who is the middle man, used to double the prices of the human parts to sell to the herbalist.
Detectives claimed that Adeleke died after he attempted to jump from a moving vehicle when he led policemen to go and arrest other members of his gang.