Fidelis David in Akure
Operatives of Ondo State Police Command have arrested a cleric, Mr. Oluwafemi Idris, for alleged unlawful possession of human parts.
This is just as the command arrested a notorious motorcycle snatcher, Mr. Babalola Dolapo, whose operational zone cut across Ondo town, Akure, Ekiti, Ilesha and Ife town in Osun State.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP. Abayomi Oladipo, said that the police got an intelligence from a reliable source in January 2024 that Idris, popularly known as Alfa, kept human parts in his house and intends to use them for ritual purposes.
According to Oladipo, the police swung into action and apprehended the suspect while human parts, including hands, three kidneys, three hearts, spine and tongue were found in his possession when a search was conducted in his house at Akoko. “The suspect claimed that he is an Islamic cleric and some of the human parts were supplied by his friend, an Alhaji, who is also a cleric and one Samuel Kutelu while he supplied one Babatunde Kayode (an Oluawo) three human heads.
Both Oluawo and Kayode have been arrested while effort is on to arrest the other cleric that supplied the human parts.
The commissioner of police said that the command has also arrested an alleged notorious motorcycle snatcher, Babalola Dolapo whose operational zone cut across across Ondo town, Akure, Ekiti, Ilesha and Ife town in Osun State.
However, the suspect who took detectives to a scene where he allegedly dumped the corpse of a victim, Opeyemi Oyelakin, explained that he and Sikiru Mutiu dragged the deceased to a shallow pit, covered it with leaves before his motorcycle was stolen.
His words: “It was the work of the devil. I can’t explain because the deceased was my close friend. Truly, his bike is not the first bike I will ever snatched but I have never killed before. Even those that are not related to me, I snatched bike from them and I didn’t harm them but this one is just a coincidence.
“My buyer is at Ibadan. The look of the bike at times determine how much we are going to sell it, but no matter how clean the bike is, my buyer won’t buy more than N200,000.
“But, we sold this one at the rate of N130,000 and we shared the money equally because we are two in the business. When we were collecting the bike from the deceased, he dragged with us, so I had to hit him with stone. I have been in the business since 2021.”
Oladipo, who gave a clear picture of the incident, said that on March 25, a complaint was received from Ondo town that a motorcycle with registration number KAK 136 VF was stolen on March 15 while the rider, Opeyemi Oyelakin, was nowhere to be found.
“Consequent upon this report, detectives swung into action and arrested one Babalola Dolapo Daniel same date. During interrogation, the suspect confessed that the said Opeyemi Oyelakin (deceased) was his childhood friend, they have not seen for a very long time until March 14.
“He said the rider was engaged from Ondo town to take him and one other to a farm area in Oke-Igbo and the rider who incidentally happens to be his friend and brought him to this area where we are and on getting to this point they came down under the pretense that they want to inspect their farm, the other suspect who is now at large griped the okada rider at the back while the arrested suspect hit him with stone on the head and consistently use wood to batter his head.
“Thereafter, they carried the dead body into the bush and use leafs to cover him and they left him there. After the interrogation, he led the operatives to this particular location where they put the dead body of the deceased and that is why we are here to remove the corpse, do the necessary procedure so that the family can give him the burial.
“I want to say that the residents of this area, especially those who farm here since on the 15th of March, when this incident happened till date, kept mute which is not supposed to be. So what we are saying is that if you see something you must say something.”
According to him, the command has “embarked on enlightenment campaign to sensitise okada rider to know the danger in taking passengers to isolated places.”
The commissioner of police called on members of the public, particularly motorcycle riders, to be mindful of the type of persons they carry and the terrains they enter with their motorcycles, stressing that the command is intensifying efforts to get everyone connected to the crime arrested and prosecuted accordingly.
