Oyenekan Oluwaseyi, a pastor with the Christ Liberty Evangelism Church, Rosco, Iyana Iyesi, Ota, alongside three others, were on Sunday, arrested with a human skull in the Saje Area of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The Informant247 gathered that Oluwaseyi and the three others, 30-year-old Ibrahim Agbowewe, 40-year-old Suleiman Ogunbunmi, and 57-year-old Gafari Akinsanya, were arrested by men of the state police command in the early hours of Saturday.
According to a source in the command, the suspects claimed they had intended to use the skull for rituals, adding that the arrest was made following a tip-off from members of the public about the suspects’ suspicious movement and activities in the area.
Following the intelligence, police officers were said to have stormed the area and arrested the suspects while recovering one big calabash, one black Toyota Camry car and one ram found from the suspects.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Omolola Odutola, who confirmed the arrest, stated that the four suspects had confessed to the crime.
“We arrested the four of them. They have since confessed that they wanted to use the head for blessings and money rituals. The investigations are ongoing to unravel more details about the incident,” Odutola said.