A 38-year-old herbalist, Semiu Oyewo, who was arrested along Ile-Ife/Ibadan road with a human skull claimed he did not know that it is an offence claiming that the skull was meant to treat someone who is suffering chronic daily headache.
The suspect was paraded by the Osun State Police Command headquarters at ring road, Osogbo on Tuesday.
According to the State Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, “On July 7, 2021, around 8am the police patrol team on routine highway patrol along Ile-Ife/Ibadan road, intercepted one Honda Accord vehicle with Reg. No. AGL 412 CD black colour driven by the suspect a 38-year-old man, Semiu Oyewo of Alamole area, Ondo road, Ile-Ife, searched the vehicle and recovered the exhibits.”
The suspect told journalists that, “I am an herbalist, I didn’t know that having possession of dry skull is an offence. I even fought with the mobile police that arrested me. I want to use it to treat someone who is suffering chronic headache,” he said.
Olokode said during the course of investigation and interrogation, the suspect confessed that he is an herbalist and bought the suspected human skull from his co-herbalist one Ige aka Igwe of Apomu who had absconded.
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While speaking the CP said, “The said suspected human skull was bargained for twenty-five thousand naira only (N25, 000.00) while he paid twenty thousand naira only (N20, 000.00) to later balance five thousand naira only (N5, 000.00).
“The Police navigated its investigation to the house of the arrested suspected and recovered various ‘Juju’ and fetish items which they hid in the bush.”
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